Courtroom Battle Could Lead to Limits on Fluoridation of Drinking Water
By Dan Ross on June 8, 2020
A federal court trial underway in San Francisco could spell the beginning of the end of water fluoridation in America, potentially affecting drinking water for hundreds of millions of people across the U.S.
Although fluoride can occur naturally in water, many water utilities add the chemical with the goal of improving dental health. But an alliance of groups led by Food & Water Watch, a government accountability nonprofit, have sued the Environmental Protection Agency to force it to limit or ban adding fluoride altogether. They contend that the chemical presents an “unreasonable risk’’ of causing neurological damage, especially to young children and babies in the womb.
In opening statements today, plaintiffs lawyer Michael Connett said it ”will be undisputed in this case that babies who are bottle-fed with fluoridated water receive the highest doses of fluoride of any age group.” At the time of “their greatest vulnerability, we are exposing infants, often from the poorest, most disadvantage communities, to a very high burden of fluoride,” Connett said […]
Via https://www.fairwarning.org/2020/06/courtroom-battle-fluoride-drinking-water/
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I well remember when the issue of fluoridation came up in Savannah, sometime in the 1960s. My family had well water. My father, a public health doctor, said he would consider getting county water if it were fluoridated. My mother was afraid of water supplies being poisoned. (Fluorine is an element, which occurs naturally, and it is also considered a poison.)
I’m glad the issue is surfacing again, long overdue. It makes me wonder how anyone could ever think adding a poison to the water supply is a good idea. First, we can’t know whether it would be distributed evenly in the water supply. Would it tend to accumulate in less-used pipes or storage areas? Would it layer out?
I suspect any processed food or beverage manufacturer that uses fluoridated water in its manufacturing process would perhaps unwittingly, also be adding fluoride to its food products, so there would be additive doses to individuals who drink the artificially fluoridated water and the processed food products. Theoretically, anyone who lives in the US may be getting fluoride from multiple sources but wouldn’t even know it.
Who benefits from adding fluoride to water supplies? Considering we are already drowning in environmental toxins (my opinion), why would anyone want to add more of them voluntarily?
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It’s ironic that only English-speaking countries continue to fluoridate their water, Katherine. Fluoridation was banned in Europe more than a decade ago. Most communities in New Zealand have removed the fluoride from their water (a local citizens group pressured our district council to remove it from New Plymouth water in 2011). More and more communities in the UK and Canada have voted to ban it. Only the US, Australia, and Ireland continue widespread fluoridation.
5 recent studies linking water fluoridation to low IQ in babies are particularly scary.
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Thanks for the info, Dr. Bramhall. I didn’t know that. I don’t even know if our county water is fluoridated. I’ll add that question to my “To Do” list.
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