Fluoridation bill passes NJ Senate panel

Water Tech Online ^ | 12/9/09 | Water Tech Online

[NewJerseyJoe]

 

TRENTON, NJ — The New Jersey Senate’s health committee on December 7 passed a bill that would require fluoride to be added to public water supplies throughout the state, The Star-Ledger reported December 8.

Environmental advocates, utility companies and some parents object to the bill (A3709/S2856), which would require public and private water utilities to start adding fluoride within a year of the law’s enactment.

Some lawmakers say the bill would be too costly to the consumer, yet the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee voted 6-0 with three abstentions to approve the bill.

There are more than 6 million households in the state.

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[NewJerseyJoe]

Whether or not you want it.
Whether or not you want to pay for it.
Whether or not you can afford to pay for it.

Welcome to New Jersey.

[NewJerseyJoe]

New Jersey Brain Trust ping

(I maintain an unofficial ping list for New Jersey-related news. If you want on or off the list, send me FReepmail.)

[DogBarkTree]

Uh Oh.

[steve-b]

"I can no longer sit back and allow communist infilitration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion and the international communist conspiricy to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids."

[GYPSY286]

Has any FR ever checked on the stats of fluoride (what it really is) and what it does to the human body over a period of time? It’s really really scarry.

[taxcontrol]

So NJ is adding a known carcinogen to their water. In 1990 fluoride was found to be an equivocal carcinogen by the National Cancer Institute Toxicology Program. Lovely.

[driftdiver]

Well ya know its not like any other products have flouride in them.

[dead]

I actually thought this was all enacted 40 years ago.

[Red Badger]

Whether or not you need it..............

[Red Badger]

Give ‘em a break! NJ just now made it to the 20th century............

[VicVega]

Pharmaceutical Company executives started crying when they heard the great news.

Crossing fingers and sending cash in hopes of the Bill passing in the full Senate.

[Rodebrecht]

Pity. New Jersey was one of the few states where this wasn’t standard procedure. Looks like it’s time for a Brita filter.

[Eva]

Fluoride is a heavy metal, it’s a by-product of aluminum production and at one time, twenty or thirty years ago, was being spewed from the stacks at the aluminum smelters all over the county. It never goes away. In WA state, where I live, the cows were going down and had to be shot. The farmers near the smelter, won a big law suit. It has been suggested that putting fluoride in the water was a government device to dispose of the fluoride.

The symptoms of fluoride poisoning are very similar to lead poisoning.

[Rodebrecht]

Strike that Brita thing. It's time for an activated alumina filter, whatever that is.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Fluoride Poisoning: Is Our Government Poisoning Us?
Fluoride Poisoning, Myths & Information
The Truth about Flouride
The Fluoride Deception - Thyroid Disorder - Iodine Deficiency

[Huck]

I’m assuming no one’s going to make me put flouride in my well?

[Rodebrecht]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_fluorosis

IT'S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!

[concerned about politics]

Has any FR ever checked on the stats of fluoride (what it really is) and what it does to the human body over a period of time? It’s really really scarry.

Incidence of osteosarcoma among young males, for one.

[NewJerseyJoe]

Your observations about fluoride effects are noteworthy, but fluoride is not a heavy metal. It’s an ionic compound of fluorine, which is a gas.

[concerned about politics]

Fluoride is a heavy metal, it’s a by-product of aluminum production

Deceased Alzheimer's patients have been found to have an increased amount of Aluminum in their brains. I always thought it was because of the aluminum pans they used to use. Instead, it very well could be the water.