Posted on 03/13/2010 6:30:24 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Chinese Fluoride In Mass. Water Raises Concern
Team 5 Investigates After Amesbury Pulls Sodium Fluoride From Water Supply
POSTED: 6:12 pm EST March 11, 2010
UPDATED: 12:05 pm EST March 12, 2010
AMESBURY, Mass. -- Fluoride is added to the water most of us drink because the government believes it's a safe and inexpensive way to prevent tooth decay.
However, Team 5 Investigates found the Amesbury Water Department pulled fluoride from its system amid concerns about its supply from China.
Department of Public Works Director Rob Desmarais said after he mixes the white powder with water, 40 percent of it will not dissolve.
"I don't know what it is," Desmarais said. "It's not soluble, and it doesn't appear to be sodium fluoride. So we are not quite sure what it is."
(Excerpt) Read more at thebostonchannel.com ...
“I don’t know what it is,” Desmarais said. “It’s not soluble, and it doesn’t appear to be sodium fluoride. So we are not quite sure what it is.”
Did they check to see if it was ground plastic? You know, the stuff the Chinese were putting in dog food last year?
So they are putting stuff in drinking water without knowing what it is. Nice
I’ve driven around the world, and I can say without a doubt, the drivers west of 495 are THE WORST IN THE WORLD.
“Did they check to see if it was ground plastic? You know, the stuff the Chinese were putting in dog food last year?”
I’m in Shanghai, and was here when the melamine scare was front page here.
We have lunch counter type plastic plates we use for our students, and on the bottom is the word MELAMINE in bold raised letters. We often joke with new wstudents and visators, “Don’t eat the place now, unless you want kidney stones.”
Chlorine and fluorine are both known carcinogens and the gubmint doesn't care one wit about adding them to the municipal water supplies. It's for the children, dontchaknow? It stands to reason that the same gubmint wouldn't care about adding unknown Chinese chemicals to the municipal water supplies, either. Glad I have two good wells.....
Once they knew it was being put in the drinking water I'm sure you'd get some of the best chemical analysts on Earth checking it out!
In the meantime the rest of the campus people would return to distilled beverages.
ANYTHING from China- ruh roh
So is sunlight, grilled meats, etc.
Hope you’re checking those wells on a regular basis for water quality. Regular means more than once every5 to 10 years or whenever I get a round to it.
Municipal supplies are checked daily for water quality parameters.
I have my wells checked every year for heavy metals and biological contaminants. My big well is tapped into a limestone spring network. It'll do 48 gpm of crystal clear water that needs nothing. The other well isn't quite as deep and has some iron in it that is removed with some minor treatment, but it's good water, too. Much better than the crap in the municipal supplies around here that all come out of the Tennessee River, down stream of 3 nuke plants, a century after hundreds of tons of coal tar and other industrial chemicals were dumped into the river.....
I “Dogpiled” found one entry re: cost of Chinese fluoride - $11 per kilo. Couldn’t find any US prices. (Do we even make the stuff any more?) Be interesting to see the price differences.
“So is sunlight, grilled meats, etc.” [carcinogenic]
Indeed they are, but you have control on whether you wish to be in the sun or grill a steak. You can’t drill a well if you live in the city.
Glenn Beck should jump on this. This should be a “FOX NEWS ALERT”.......but they won’t.
Water suppliers nationwide, in the US, are required to supply consumers with annual Water Quality Reports or Consumer Confidence Reports at least once a year
“Consumers should take this yearly opportunity to check their water fluoride levels,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. “If your water department adds fluoride chemicals, tell them and your legislators to stop. They are wasting your money and endangering your health,” says Beeber.
“If your water is not fluoridated, don’t be complacent. The American Dental Association has mobilized their army of dentists nationwide to go to your legislators and convince them that you need to swallow more fluoride (a) without any knowledge of how much fluoride you are already ingesting,” says Beeber
Beeber advises: Call your water department, ask if fluoride chemicals are added into your water supply. Then ask them and your local legislators, “Who has the authority to stop fluoridation?” Organize your neighbors to lobby the appropriate agency or department to have them cease fluoridation. You will be saving your community money and improving overall health with no increased dental risk. In fact, many studies show that when fluoridation ends, tooth decay rates actually go down or stay the same.
Dental fluorosis (discolored teeth), the visible sign of fluoride overdose, now afflicts up 48% of school children, reports the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Fluoride’s purported benefits are topical but its risks are systemic, says the CDC. “This means there is no good reason to swallow fluoride and no logical justification for water fluoridation,” says Beeber.
A 2006 review of peer-reviewed studies in respected journals by the prestigious National Research Council (NRC) reveals fluoride is a health risk even at low levels added to water supplies. Especially harmed are high-water drinkers, babies, kidney and thyroid patients. The NRC panel found that fluoride’s links to cancer and lowered IQ are plausible.
Because of the NRC report, the CDC and the American Dental Association both advise that infant formula should NOT be mixed with fluoridated water.
The NRC report also caused the National Kidney Foundation to advise that “Individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be notified of the potential risk of fluoride exposure.” Too much fluoride damages bones and malfunctioning kidneys do not excrete fluoride properly allowing a toxic build-up in the bones.
Besides, fluoride ingestion is not stopping tooth decay in primary teeth.
“Fluoridation began with the untested belief that ingested fluoride prevented tooth decay in small children, only. Evidence-based-dentistry now shows that swallowing fluoride poses dental risks without benefits to the very children fluoridation was supposed to help,” says Beeber.
“It may...be that fluoridation of drinking water does not have a strong protective effect against early childhood caries (cavities) reports
dentist Howard Pollick, University of California, and colleagues, in the Winter 2003 Journal of Public Health Dentistry.
Fluoride does occur naturally in most water systems. But over 90% of fluoridating communities use silicofluorides, waste products of phosphate fertilizer production, which carry trace amounts of lead, arsenic, mercury and other toxins, according to NSF International, the governing body over water additives.(2)
Opposition to fluoridation is scientific, respectable and growing in numbers and political popularity.
At least 80 communities rejected fluoridation in 2008 and 2009.
Dr. Joey Hensley, a respected practicing physician serving in the Tennessee legislature, urges all Tennessee Water Districts to stop fluoridation. At least 31 Tennessee water districts have already complied.
Over 2,700 professionals signed a statement urging the US Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted, citing scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. See statement: http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html
Also, 11 Environmental Protection Agency unions, representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals, called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation programs across the country, and have asked EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in people. (3)
Fluoridation is now a political issue usually defended and promoted, without valid science, by organized dentistry and their members in federal and state health departments as well as those in private practice.
For more information on fluoride’s adverse health effects, visit the Fluoride Action Network Health Page at http://www.FluorideAction.Net/health
Join the 21,000 Americans calling on Congress to stop fluoridation here: http://congress.FluorideAction.Net
SOURCE: New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
http://www.FluorideAction.Net
References:
a) http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/pubs/adanews/adanewsarticle.asp?articleid=3589
1) August 2000 letter from NJ Assemblyman Kelly to Senator Robert Smith http://www.fluoridealert.org/fda.htm
2) www.nsf.org/business/water_distribution/pdf/NSF_Fact_Sheet.pdf
3) Press Release August 19, 2005, “EPA Unions Call for Nationwide Moratorium on Fluoridation, Congressional Hearing on Adverse Effects, Youth Cancer Cover Up,” Contact: Dr. William Hirzy, Vice-President NTEU Chapter 280
“Municipal supplies are checked daily for water quality parameters.”
I have been the operator of a small water system for almost 30 years. 400 homes, 40 condos, and a couple of commercial connections. We have 4 relatively deep wells, 450 feet. The EPA requires that we test in the system and at the plant daily for Chlorine residual. Once a month for bacterial and ph tests. Inorganics, organics, radiological, metals , etc., are spread out over a few years. Lead and copper started out as 20 for the first round, then if you were in compliance, dropped to 10 the next year, then 5 every few years.
We treat with chlorine and phosphate. Over the last 30 years, there have been no detectable changes in our water. Fluorides can occur naturally, but in our system they’re in fractions of a part per billion. Our water is some of the very best in the state.
Still, I get my drinkin’ cookin’, and mixin’ water direct from the wells, pre-treatment!
We’re on a well, too. 300’ deep and crystal clear. :)
I live near ‘The People’s Republic of Madistan’ and two years ago they literally had CHUNKS of manganese in their drinking water.
Stupid city run by stupid hippies. ;)
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