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Fluoride Is Poison, Says
Dartmouth Doctor
New evidence seems to confirm that by fluoridating our water,
we are poisoning our children.
By Tom Valentine
More than two years ago, the court-killed Spotlight
wrote about George Glasser, a citizen researcher who blew the whistle on the
use of highly-toxic fluorosilicic acid from rock fertilizer processing as
the primary source of community water fluoridation.
Now, a massive study of young children who have been
subjected to fluorosilicic acid fluoridation in their New York communities
shows that the water additive does not improve kids’ teeth and could even be
poisoning them.
Until that time, most people were under the impression
that water fluoridation used sodium fluoride, rat poison, a by-product of
aluminum manufacturing.
Glasser, however, pointed out that more than 75 percent of
the U.S. water fluoridation communities have been using the even more toxic
fluorosilicic acid since the late 1970s.
Glasser was the first to stress the excessive toxicity
inherent in using the hydrofluorosilicic acid residue that is removed from
the industrial pollution control “scrubbers” in the manufacture of phosphate
fertilizers.
The chemists refer to this material as silicofluorides and
have now conclusively shown that the fluoridation material is linked to
other heavy metal toxins that are found in drinking water—lead, arsenic,
aluminum and cadmium for example.
In the March 2001 issue of the journal Neuro Toxicology, a
team of researchers led by Dr. Roger Masters of Dartmouth College reported
evidence that public drinking water fluoridated with fluorosilicic acid is
linked to higher levels of lead in children.
After pointing out that since 1992 only about 10 percent
of America’s fluoridated communities use sodium fluoride and 90 percent use
fluorosilicic acid, the researchers stated that about 140 million Americans
have this chemical placed in their water.
They also pointed out that sodium fluoride was tested on
animals and approved for human consumption, but fluorosilicic acid had not
been so tested and approved.
The research team studied the blood-lead levels in more
than 400,000 children in three different samplings. In each case they found
a significant link between fluorosilicic acid-treated water and elevated
blood levels of lead.
In the latest study, the blood levels of about 150,000
children ranging in ages from infant to 6 were analyzed.
The samples were collected by the New York State
Department of Children’s Health from 1994 through 1998.
Researchers concluded that the fluorosilicic acid-treated
water was equal to or worse a contributor of blood-lead levels as old house
paint.
Dr. Masters said these preliminary findings correlate the
fluorosilicic acid water treatment and behavior problems that are due to
known effects of lead on brain chemistry.
Additionally, a study in Germany showed the fluorosilicic
acid water (SiFs) may inhibit the enzyme cholinesterase which plays a key
role in regulating neurotransmitters.
“If SiFs are cholinesterase inhibitors, this means that
SiFs have effects like the chemical agents linked to Gulf War Syndrome,
chronic fatigue syndrome and other puzzling conditions that plague millions
of Americans,” Masters said. “We need a better understanding of how SiFs
behave chemically and physiologically.”
Last March, Dr. Masters testified before New Hampshire
legislators in favor of the Fluoride Product Quality Control Act. The bill
would put the SiFs to a series of tests, and perhaps further research on
neurotoxicity and behavior.
“If further research confirms our findings,” Masters said,
“this may well be the worst environmental poison since leaded gasoline.”
The EPA admits it has no data on the health and behavioral
effects of SiFs.
Dr. Masters asked: “Shouldn’t we stop intentionally
exposing 140 million Americans to an untested chemical until the risks are
extensively and objectively evaluated by independent researchers?”
And, the final insult: There is no conclusive evidence
that fluoridation of drinking water significantly improves the teeth of
children at all.
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