Fluoridation is Forced Medication Australia

 

 
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Abstract
High levels of fluoride in drinking water are responsible for fluorosis, a crippling disease that affects many parts of rural India and Africa. I spent almost a year in India, primarily at the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation studying the problem of fluoride-affected drinking water and methods of natural product defluordation. Current chemical methods of defluoridation have been well explored. Despite their efficiency and low price, they have not been adopted for widespread use in fluoride affected rural areas. Natural products were explored another method for water defluoridation. As an alternative to defluoridation, a strategy for avoiding fluoride-affected water sources was explored. In a final analysis of the situation, the role of further scientific experimentation seems limited. Rather than developing new strategies for providing fluoride-free water to rural communities, scientists should help to facilitate implementation of existing strategies.
The M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
During the 2000-01 academic year I spent nine months in India on a Fulbright Foundation student research grant. After a year at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on bioremediation, I was eager to study hands-on approaches to environmental problems. The majority of my time in India was spent at the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. MSSRF was established in the early 1990s as a center for scientific research on sustainable agriculture and rural development. It has an excellent reputation for doing cutting-edge science while focusing on areas where the science can make an immediate contribution to society and the environment. MSSRF hopes to do work that is "pro-poor, pro-woman, and pro-environment."
While this rhetoric is common among organizations working in India, it is striking to see this philosophy in action. Of the total staff of MSSRF, almost half are working in field offices. Staff working at the central institution are encouraged to take positions in field stations vice versa. Field work is an integral part of every research project. The time-scale of projects is also geared towards immediate impact. Projects are typically taken from the research phase to implementation within a few years. The procedure at MSSRF is in marked contrast to American institutions where it is difficult to do field work and there is no clear plan for testing and implementing research in real situations.
At MSSRF, I studied the problems of fluoride-affected drinking water in Tamil Nadu. I began my research in the search for natural products which could serve to remove the fluoride from drinking water. At the end of my program, I began to explore alternatives to water defluoridation, such as the identification of alternative water sources.
The problem of fluorosis
The United Nations declared the 1980’s to be the Water Decade. With the goal of providing a safe and continuous water supply to rural populations, bore-wells were dug across India. Water from these wells is reliably free from disease-causing bacteria and is available throughout the year. Unfortunately, a side-effect of this has been an increase in drinking water with dangerously high levels of fluoride (>1 ppm) and an associated increase in the incidence of skeletal fluorosis.
In areas where the bedrock contains high levels of toxic metals or minerals, water coming from bore-wells may be dangerously contaminated. The most well-known incidence of this problem has been the occurrence of arsenic in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Wells installed to alleviate a major public health problem by providing disease-free drinking water to rural areas have inadvertently created a new public health disaster.
A similar problem has been experienced in Tamil Nadu (as well as many other parts of India and Africa) with the occurrence of fluoride in the drinking water. Wells drilled into fluoride-rich bedrock often have elevated fluoride concentrations in the drinking water. High levels of fluoride in the drinking water are known to cause severe skeletal and dental disorders. High fluoride intake is suspected in causing goiter and has even been linked to higher incidences of cancer. In areas of Tamil Nadu where fluoride intake is particularly high, fluorosis can affect as much as 30% of the population. In many villages severe crippling is common.
 
Current methods of defluoridation
The most efficient and practical method currently available for water defluoridation uses aluminum sulphate (alum) and lime. The technique was first developed in the Indian village of Nalgonda and is still referred to as the "Nalgonda technique." Defluoridation kits based on this technique have been produced and distributed to many rural areas. Alum is inexpensive and easy to use, store and transport, and remarkably effective at removing fluoride from water.
Using a similar chemical process, activated alumina can also be used for defluoridation. The difference is that alum is added to water as a powder while activated alumina can be used in a solid form. As water is filtered through granular activated alumina, the fluoride is adsorbed out. This makes activated alumina ideal for community water source defluoridation.
The drawbacks of activated alumina technology are the cost of installation and the necessity of frequent maintenance. Trial filtration apparatus have been installed. The filtration system designed at Gandhi Gram University requires 100 kilograms of activated alumina. At a price of approximately Rs. 100 per kilogram, this means an investment of Rs. 10,000. The filter must be regularly treated with acid and base in order to regenerate the alumina.
Despite many advantages, the chemical defluoridation techniques has not achieved widespread use in fluoride-affected areas. Social and political factors are as much responsible for this as any technological deficiency. While these techniques require only a few minutes of work each day, a strong community education effort must be put forth to convince villagers to practice the technique. Even the small effort required to defluoridate water will not be put forth unless people clearly understand the dangers of fluorosis. There are no great logistical barriers to production and distribution of Nalgonda kits in India. The problem lies more with politicians who prefer more "impressive" solutions such as pumping water from a reservoir.
The other hurdle in defluoridation technologies is the neccessity for community education. This was made clear to me when I visited a village with a newly installed activated alumina defluoridation apparatus. The graduate student who had installed it claimed to have spent a month visiting every day to educate the community about the dangers of fluoridated water. For monitoring purposes, the defluoridation apparatus has an outlet for water before it is filtered through the activated alumina. As we were watching, a young boy came up and began to drink the fluoride-affected water directly from the tap meant only for monitoring. Of course, we need not have worried too much about the danger of highly fluoridated water…the village rarely used water from the hand-pump because sweet water from a reservoir was available from the screw taps on the other side of the street!
 
Natural product defluoridation
Despite the efficiency of the Nalgonda technique and new research into activated alumina defluoridation, a natural-product alternative for water defluoridation is being sought. There are many advantages to defluoridation using natural products. Because they can often be locally grown, production and transportation costs could be reduced. Natural-product defluoridation might also achieve widespread acceptance more easily. The use of natural products in water purification is already common practice among many communities in India and Africa. Natural-product defluoridation could become more popular among the rural populations than chemical methods. Although the use of alum in water purification has never been proved dangerous, aluminum is toxic to humans in large amounts and use of natural-products might be healthier.
No natural products tested provide a promising alternative to chemical defluoridation methods. Research yielded two intriguing candidates with significant defluoridation capacity, but neither seems well suited for village-scale or community-scale water defluoridation.
The seeds of the drumstick tree (Moringa oleifera) were the first tested. The tree is common throughout India and Africa and grows well in arid conditions. Drumstick seeds act as a coagulant. They have long been a traditional method for purification of turbid water in both India and Africa. A previous researcher at MSSRF had shown drumstick seeds to have remarkable defluoridation efficiency, higher than that of activated alumina. Unfortunately, these results proved irreproducible.
The roots of vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanoides) are another product that has traditionally been used for water purification. Water filtered through the roots is supposed to have a sweeter taste, probably due partly to a taste imparted by the roots and partly to a decreased salt content in the water. The roots were effective at defluoridation and could remove as much as 70% of the fluoride from a sample. The defluordation efficiency was higher than activated alumina, and the price was comparable. Unfortunately, back-of-the-envelope calculation indicate that a family would need to raise acres of vetiver grass every year in order to provide enough material for defluoridation.
 
An alternative strategy: Fluoride avoidance
Given the inherent drawbacks of defluoridation, perhaps an entirely different approach should be considered. Except for a few districts where extremely high fluoride levels have already crippled much of the population, nothing is being done to address the problem of fluoride contamination.
In most areas, a source of fluoride-free water already exists! There is no district in Tamil Nadu where more than 20% of the wells are affected by fluoride. Even within the same village, there are often some wells affected by high fluoride levels while other wells are not affected. It may be possible to avert the spread of fluorosis simply by closing down taps with high fluoride content, or encouraging people to not to use this water for drinking.
The advantage of this monitoring work is that could make an immediate impact. As you read this report, thousands of people across Tamil Nadu are drinking water with dangerously high levels of fluoride. Within weeks or months they could be told where to obtain safer sources of drinking water. This is not a perfect solution, the search should continue for better defluoridation methods. In the meantime, however, many villagers have no alternative to putting themselves at risk of a crippling disease. It seems that the benefits of instituting such a program will easily outweigh the costs of implementation.
Conclusions
The efforts to provide fluoride-safe drinking water to rural Tamil Nadu are an case study in the challenges of structuring scientific research to meet the needs of rural populations. Cost-effective, simple, and effective procedures for water defluoridation are already known. The task is not just to experiment with more efficient methods of defluoridation, it is to develop workable strategies to provide fluoride-safe drinking water to rural communities as quickly as possible.
The role of scientific research in halting the spread of fluorosis in rural areas seems limited. Methods for water defluoridation have been well developed, as have the hydrological techniques necessary to find fluoride-safe alternative sources. Lacking is the funding, organizational capability, community education, and the desire to implement solutions that have already been developed. Scientists should advocate these courses of action and may play an advisory role in these processes. Implementation will require collaboration with organizations who have the political clout and experience to work effectively in rural communities.

Owing to problems the Central Coast Pure Water Association had had to move its web site.

CCPWA's new address is www.ccpurewater.filetap.com/

We used this in an newspaper advertisment a year or two ago in reference to Fluoridation . Local Doctors who were outspoken in favour of Fluoridation said they were very offended by this little drawing of mine. Can't see why? But if the cap fits...I rather find the full scale enforced medication of the entire population with a known poison linked to most of the worst diseases mankind can suffer from, a slightly offensive insult to me and mine...

There is no copyright on this, if you can use it go for it... THEY HATED IT.

PRIME TV NEWS (Australia) video of news story on Fluoride And Osteosarcoma

On Channel Seven (Prime News) - NSW Australia on Monday 22nd May they ran a story about Fluoride and Osteosarcoma. If you follow the link below you can view this story on your PC. I had no problem viewing and we are on low speed broadband.

I couldn't get this to work as a normal "link" but if you copy and past it on Goggle search that will get you there.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/index.html?pn=3 but when I did search on this on google it threw up an address just below to try and that second address works. Its worth a look.

Therese Mackay
Hastings Safe Water Association

PS Don't be too amused when the News reader repeatedly calls Osteosarcoma..."Osteoarcoma" Truly!

The Hastings Safe Water Association


43 Willow Crescent PORT MACQUARIE 2444
Phone 02 6583 9622 – 0417 279 602 tmackay@tsn.cc

18/5/06
Dear Editor,
I was not surprised to read that Richmond Valley Councillors voted unanimously on Tuesday to “flick-pass” responsibility for fluoridating the local water supply to NSW Health.
They would have known of the Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Act 1957 -amended in 1989 by Peter Collins when they voted on this issue. If they did not make themselves aware of this act then your Councillors have not done their job properly.
What this act means (see 6a) (1) The Secretary may, by notification published in the Gazette (gov.) direct a water supply authority to add Fluorine to a public water supply (2) A direction may be given only if the water supply authority (YOUR Council) has referred the question of Fluoridating the public water supply to the secretary for consideration and the secretary has received the advice of the Committee as regards the question…. (5) Any water supply authority contravening a direction or any terms attached to the direction is guilty of an offence against this Act.

All Councillors would have been aware that once they asked for “Advice” from the Health Dept… and their Advisory Committee, using that precise word “Advice”, they had in fact handed over responsibility legally on the issue of Fluoridation.

We researched that Advisory Committee in 2004 and 100% hundred percent of the so-called “independent” Committee are pro Fluoridation.We have that list of Committee members here, and the backgrounds of all of them.

Dr Peter Hill the Chairman is the Acting Chief Dental Officer with the NSW Department of Health. He has been publicly pro Water Fluoridation and was closely involved in our Fluoridation referendum in the Hastings in 1991. We have a news clipping of him extolling the virtues of Fluoridation way back then and he has since been promoted within the department.

Dr Graham Craig is Associate Professor of Dentistry at Sydney University and has been actively promoting Fluoridation for some time and is one of the most known Fluoride promoters in NSW. How our Councillors missed his CV is impossible to guess.

Dr Diana Hart is the Northern Area Representative of the Australian Medical Association. The AMA actively promotes and endorses Fluoridation right across Australia and has been very active here in the Hastings in all Fluoridation debates, promoting Water Fluoridation.

Dr Shanti Sivaneswaran is the Principal Oral Health Advisor for the NSW Health Department and was up here in Port Macquarie promoting Water Fluoridation and making pro Fluoridation statements to the Port Macquarie News (see 21/4/04). She said at the Tele Conference earlier this year that “those who don’t want Fluoride can go out and buy Water Filters”.

Mr Bill Ho is with the Public Works Department and the Manager of Fish Water Supply with the Land and Conservation Department of NSW - a NSW Government Department and unlikely to be free to speak out against Government policy of Fluoridation.

Cr. Jack Mallon from the Cowra Council, who is the Local Government Representative on this committee. When spoken to he said that he didn’t have any expertise, but relied on other members of the committee for technical advice, such as the AMA member and Dental Professor. A bit of a Claytons member!

The Advisory Committee is the final door of a trap designed by the NSW Health Department to take away our freedom of choice and to render powerless local Councils. The Committee’s sole purpose is to add respectability to what has to be one of the worst abuses of democracy we have ever witnessed. The outcome of that Committee has never been in doubt. They will decide to Fluoridate and that is their purpose.

Your Councillors did not have to vote in the manner they did. They all had a choice. They chose to hand over full responsibility for Water Fluoridation, ignoring the Council run referendums and polls run in past decades. Nobody forced them to, and they should have come to you the people before even contemplating such an abuse of Human rights.

The Hastings Safe Water Association spoke with an official, a Mr Hill, in his capacity as a specialist on the UN Covenant, from the Attorney General’s Office in Canberra in 2004 on this issue. In particular, discussion concerned Article 7 which says in part, “…In particular, no one shall be subjected, without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation”. Mr Hill said that this article is an attempt to out law practices such as State sanctioned medical or scientific experimentation on people without their “Informed Consent. ”He went on to say “Consent must be given on a free and proper basis, knowing full well what the person is consenting to as distinct from consent that was given without the person having full knowledge of all the facts.”

The Health Department itself has stated they are still doing research on Fluoridation; therefore Fluoridation itself is still an experiment.

Its now up to all residents to become well informed on what this will mean to you, to your children and to the environment. Please take the time if you are on the net to look at these Australian sites and fight this armed with up to date and factual information which the Health Department have no defence against http://ccpwa.sitesled.com/
Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay President of the Hastings Safe Water Association

The Hastings Safe Water Association
 
 
43 Willow Cresent PORT MACQUARIE 2444
Phone 02 6583 9622 – 0417 279 602
10/5/06
Sent to Hastings Councillors, Mr Stoner (MP) and Mr Oakeshott (MP) Mr Irving (NSW Health Department and all local Media for their comment and answers. We will forward any responses!
 
Will NSW Councils and the NSW Government put Fluoride notification system in place?
 
It has come to our attention that there is an early warning system now available to quickly notify all residents should there be a Fluoride spill or accident.
 
This was put in place because there was a major spillage of hydrofluorosilicic acid on Dec. 10 when 600 to 700 gallons used in the fluoridation process spilled at the company's Yellow Breeches Water Treatment Plant in Fairview Twp. Municipal officials and residents complained that they didn't receive proper notification of the spill or the restrictions on water usage.
 
We ask that Town Councillors, MP's,  Health Department Officials and the Media please read the following Media Release in the interests of the community.
 
If officials are then happy to put the community at risk by Fluoridating the water Supply and not follow up a similiar emergency protocol then they will do so in the full knowledge that there is available technology. Should any similiar accident happen in any NSW town, and residents lives and health along with damage to the environment be put at extra risk, it will be because the NSW Health Department, the NSW Government and local Councils were and are prepared to force us to bear the risk .
 
Although the NSW Health Department use the spin that Fluoride as harmelss and natural please see below this article for a list of just some of the many accidental episodes of Fluoride overdosing.
 
Already in the US major Law firms are lining up see http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/fluoride-osteosarcoma/index.html . Residents and all Ratepayers would be the victims of both Fluoridation and the cost of litigation. We would be in a no win situation.
 
We urge you to consider the implications of the press release below concerning early warning and adequate responsible protection of the community.
 
We hope to hear your response to this and it will be noted that you have received this information.
Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay
President of the Hastings Safe Water Association
 
 
East Pennsboro Twp. puts notification system in place
Sunday, April 30, 2006
BY JERRY L. GLEASON
Of The Patriot-News
East Pennsboro Twp. officials have a new tool for notifying residents of an emergency.
The SwiftReach notification system can place a telephone call with a recorded message to every home in the township within about 30 minutes.
"This gives us the ability to quickly notify our residents of a serious problem, like the fluoride spill in December at Pennsylvania American Water Co.," commissioner James Hertzler said.
The system will deliver a recorded message to home and business telephones, cellular telephones and pagers, or as an e-mail message.
Water was contaminated Dec. 10 when 600 to 700 gallons of hydrofluorosilicic acid used in the fluoridation process spilled at the company's Yellow Breeches Water Treatment Plant in Fairview Twp. The water company issued a do-not-consume advisory for 34,000 home and business customers in 14 municipalities in Cumberland and northern York counties.
Municipal officials and residents complained that they didn't receive proper notification of the spill or the restrictions on water usage.
A direct call telephone system could have delivered the notice to every home and business in the township, Hertzler said.
When the township tested the SwiftReach program on April 19, the computerized system used 700 telephones to make 8,057 calls in 28 minutes.
Assistant township manager John Pietropaoli said there are 6,713 residential telephone listings in the township, and 5,562 homes received a 90-second test message on the first run through the list.
"We had an additional 92 connections on the second run, calling the numbers we didn't reach the first time," Pietropaoli said.
The non-connections included lines that were busy, numbers where there was no answer, and people who hung up because the system didn't provide caller identification information.
SwiftReach Networks is a commercial company that contracts with municipalities to provide community notification services.
Township officials access the system through the Swift- Reach Web site, and program a message to be delivered to a list of telephone numbers.
"We can create the list of numbers to be called," Pietropaoli said. "We can call all of the residential numbers in the township, all of the business numbers, or both.
"We can also designate a specific area, a neighborhood, or even a given block on a street. We can create a call list within a 300-foot radius of a given address where there is a fire, a gas leak, or other emergency."
Calls are routed through local Verizon telephone lines as available, with the overflow going to out-of-area lines.
"The system automatically finds the number of available ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^lines for the calls it needs to make," Pietropaoli said. The township pays $500 a month in line reservation fees to keep the system operational.
"It's there as insurance in an emergency," Pietropaoli said.
JERRY L. GLEASON: 975-9782 or jgleason@patriot-news.com
 
Fluoride Accidents/Poisionings: (Click for more detail)
Fluoride is a powerful poison - more acutely poisonous than lead. This explains why fluoride is the active ingredient in many pesticides and rodenticides. It also explains why accidental over-ingestion of fluoride can cause serious toxic symptoms.
As documented in the Journal of Dental Research (Whitford 1987, 1990), there is enough fluoride in a tube of flavored children's toothpaste to kill an average-weighing child under the age of 9.
Each year there are thousands of reports to Poison Control centers in the United States related to excessive ingestion of fluoride products (toothpaste, mouthrinses, and supplements).
Malfunctioning water-fluoridation equipment, leading to excess levels of fluoride in water, has been another periodic source of acute fluoride poisoning.
News Articles - Fluoride Accidents/Poisionings:
Fluoride Dental Products -
Toothpaste label revs up some anxiety - Detroit Free Press January 13, 2005
Hazards lurk in toothpaste tube - The News Tribune, April 5, 1994
Fluoride Causes a Close Call for an Area Child - KAALtv.com May 18, 2004
Toothpaste: How Safe? - Washington Post June 16, 1997
Another Fluoride Fatality: A Physician's Dilemma - Fluoride April 1979
$750,000 Given in Child's Death in Fluoride Case - New York Times January 20, 1979
Water Fluoridation -
Marlboro water flooded with fluoride - Worcester Telegram & Gazette; October 25, 2003
Fluoride suspected as 23 in Dublin grow ill - Contra Costa Times; June 5, 2002
Norfolk could teach Wakefield about posting water alert - Boston Herald; August 9, 2000
Middletown Maryland Latest City to Receive Toxic Spill of Fluoride in their Drinking Water - Townsend Letter for Doctors, October 1994
Fluoride Blamed in 3 Deaths - Chicago Sun-Times; July 31, 1993
Mass Fluoride Poisoning Blamed on Pump, Government - News Tribune; July 2, 1992
Massive Fluoride Poisoning at Jonesboro Maine School - The Maine Paper; October 19, 1981
Fluoride Linked to Death - Evening Capital (Annapolis, MD); November 29, 1979
10 Years of Fluoride "Leaks," "Spills" and Overfeeds in the U.S. - National Fluoridation News; November-December 1981
Available Full-Text Studies - Fluoride Poisonings:
Akiniwa, K. (1997). Re-examination of acute toxicity of fluoride. Fluoride 30: 89-104.
Vogt R, et al. (1982). Acute Fluoride Poisoning Associated with an On-Site Fluoridator in a Vermont Elementary School. American Journal of Public Health 72: 1168-1171.
Hoffman R, et al. (1980). Acute fluoride poisoning in a New Mexico elementary school. Pediatrics 65:897-900.
Waldbott GW. (1979). Another Fluoride Fatality: A Physician's Dilemma. Fluoride 12:55-57.