I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration , Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids....
Posted on 03/22/2006 11:58:04 PM PST by neverdem
WASHINGTON, March 22 — High concentrations of fluoride that occur naturally in a small minority of the nation's drinking water supplies can damage teeth and bones, and federal regulators should reduce the level that is considered safe for human consumption, a National Academy of Sciences panel said Wednesday.
The 12-member panel, which spent almost three years studying the issue at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency, did not address the health effects of the much smaller amounts of fluoride added to the drinking water of 160 million Americans to prevent tooth decay.
Instead, its report dealt with the 200,000 people whose water supplies have at least four parts per million of naturally occurring fluoride, the environmental agency's current maximum.
"Our committee concluded unanimously that E.P.A. should lower the maximum contaminant level goal for fluoride," said John Doull, the committee chairman, a retired professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Kansas.
A majority of the committee, Mr. Doull said, concluded that water fluoride concentrations at or near the current standard caused adverse health effects.
In a statement, the environmental agency responded that it would seriously consider the conclusions of the study, but that any changes in the standard would have to await a complete review of all data.
The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit watchdog organization that has long advocated limiting fluoride in drinking water, praised the report as raising health concerns. It said in a statement that the study "puts concerns about safety of fluoride in tap water squarely in the mainstream of scientific thought."
A vast majority of Americans consume water containing 0.7 to 1.2 parts of fluoride per million, well below the limits set by environmental and health authorities, the study said.
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"Mandrake ... did you ever hear of a thing called fluoridation?"
Not to mention our precious bodily fluids.
How can you tell where the high-fluoride areas are? Look for the enclaves of communists.
Some interesting links:
http://www.nofluoride.com/
http://www.slweb.org/fluoridation.html
http://www.fluoride-journal.com/98-31-2/312103.htm
....and for the tinfoilers out there....
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/water.htm
How can that be? I thought any amount of fluoride was dangerous?
Gee, I guess being the 13th most common element on earth, at least SOME of it will be in the water.
Just another example of how the anti-fluoridationists are nuts.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration , Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids....
Berkely, CA. - serving toothpaste ice-cream to all.
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