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2008-01-16T05:54:00.000+10:30

DONALD WILLIAM MACKAY - Fluoridation Fighter .

4TH JULY 1950 - 17TH MAY 2007

Don’s Eulogy (see previous post re the shocking way the medical system in Australia killed my lovely brave husband)

This was read at the funeral by the celebrant.

The Man and Me
Sleeping at night my palm opened flat on his chest,
Warmth feeding warmth, I know we are blessed.
No matter the day’s misunderstandings and blues;
No matter points made and lost;
No matter who thinks who’s the boss;
Sleeping always next to him is the life I would choose.

Re arranging pillows, blankets and such;
Both easy to fire off, yet both easy to touch.
Each unwilling to give way, equal to the end.
The Celt in us both, a marvellous brew,
Stirred and stirring, a wondrous stew.
Sleeping hand to chest our rousing battles mend.

Ah! And give me that fire, pure and unpolished,
And give me the spirit, no argument undemolished,
And give me the wickedness and its play,
Give me the empathy and knowing
Give me the common sense for our growing.
And let us wake hand to chest at the start of the day.

How dear to me is the man who breathes beside me at night?
How dear is the spirit, which gives his eyes their light?
How dear to me is the world we share?
There is no measure I can explain
But that his pain gives me also pain
And that our love is sometimes more than we can bear.

For me he stands, young, fair and clear-eyed as in youth.
For me, the things he feels I know, they are truth.
And I will hold these truths like rare and precious treasure,
For in a shifting sea of easy useless lies
The values of such truths are cherished ties
To the love which lives within the heart which is without measure.

So let me lie for hours, my hand upon his chest,
Thinking on the treasures with which we are blessed.
Such as our children treading out into the world to be,
Carrying the dreams of all our life;
Treasures as sacred as the man and wife
And as sacred as the love which binds the man to me.

With Love Therese

Read by
Ian Mackay Don's brother

The dash between 1950 and 2007 is the period Don was with us. It is the most important dash that we know. It fulfils his life and the love that we know both from Don and to him.

My portion of Dons life is mainly from birth till his early twenties.

BORN on 4th July 1950 the fourth child of Rod & Kath Mackay in the western town of Moree. His family consisted of firstly
Jeanette… (Tet)
Judith… (Jude) and myself
Ian. …Not counting the main proponents of the family Dad (Rod) & Mum (Kath).

My sisters used to dote on me until this kid called “Don” arrived, it changed after that and he became the dotee. That didn’t matter all that much as they couldn’t play marbles and didn’t go much on catching frogs.

Not much to do in Moree,

One evening at dinner not long after his first birthday Don said to us and all,
“We should go to the Snowy and build the Eucumbene Dam as they need people like us” He was a very advanced child. As a group of half a dozen we set off to build a dam. Turns out it was a bit bigger than the six of us could handle, so we called in a few more people (1000 actually) it took about six years to complete. Those six years probably formed Don into the person he became in later years.

The things that we got up to, as kids would have sent you to a home of some sort or other. It included, the four of us setting out for a bike ride of a lifetime, ending up in a pigsty at the original dam site, with a raging fire that could have burnt an average National park. Someone volunteered me to get Mum and Dad (Tet I’m sure) in a raging stormy freezing cold on a 10 mile ride in the dark, with the cavalry Mum & Dad the three eldest – me included were chastised severely. “What were you thinking taking this young baby out in this weather”. As quick as, Tet said “Mum at least he is warm and dry and he is not a baby he is four years old. It ended well. The kids could do no wrong.

The Shooting,

Don & I were shooting tadpoles and frogs in a creek near home. I had just shot a frog and Don said give me a shot: I gave him the slug gun and he said to me “see how you like it” and promptly shot me in the foot.
That was the start of his GREENY ATTITUDE. Not content with the foot shooting when we got home he reloaded the slug gun and chased me around the house.

Fishing

A mate and myself were going fishing and knocked off a bunch of carrots from the headmasters place to eat while fishing next thing Don and his mate Ian ‘Ackenzie’ his real name was Mackenzie but Don couldn’t get his tongue around that, caught us and dobbed us into the headmaster- Mr Faulkner. Don got extra points for that. The mate and I panicked when called to his office, but being a great teacher he didn’t go crook instead gave us a lesson on tying fishhooks.

The remainder of our stay in the Adaminaby Dam site was filled with family love and love of family a really great place to grow up as a child.

Dam completed Don called us together again and said that the people were having troubles with a dam at Tan Tanungra and felt that we should help a fairly uneventful part of our lives Don schooled at New Adaminaby. Tet worked with Dad and Jude helped mum at the local shop.

Don again gathered us after our Sunday roast and weekly caster oil and said, “there are problems with a power site at the Lake Macquarie we should go and help”

Swansea this joint had it all
TV - never seen that
Beaches - been on holiday
Lakes - made them
Fishing - caught millions and masses of adventures that four kids from the Snowy had never seen.

Don became a super star at Soccer in the under 14s and we both completed schooling there. From there the family fragmented.

Tet married Jack Holmes and had a son Phillip all died in a car accident 1969.
Jude married Buddy whom died in a car accident in 1965.
I married Monika and had a son Terry and daughter Jenny.
Jude remarried, Kevin and had a son Rodney and daughter Joanne.

Don said they were calling from Port Headland in WA. The family fragmented further, as mum and dad with Don in tow headed there to sort out the problems the Port mob encountered.

The problem solved and plans to return to Swansea were completed. However Dad encountered cancer and lost the battle in the Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital in Perth on 31 Jan 1966.

Don and mum returned to the eastern states, I got leave from Vietnam to see Dad before he passed but unfortunately due to slow transport missed seeing him before passing. My leave was far to short and I returned to Vietnam whilst Mum and Don went to Maroon country in Brisbane where the tied up with Jude.

With Brisbane a temporary base Don now 17 headed to Blackwater mines 4-500 kilometres west of Rocky. This part of his life was born “The wild child” bought new cars and demolished them at a rapid rate.

Mum returned to Cardiff and Don soon followed and sort of lost the Wild Child a bit when he met

Therese and had two daughters
Melissa in 1974
Alison in 1977.

The remainder of his story is related by Therese through Garry our celebrant.

To have known Don as a brother was a privilege and to have loved and be loved by him irreplaceable.

DON REST IN PEACE, WE ALL LOVE YOU.

Therese’s part

Don, from 1972

Don and Therese met in Newcastle in 1972 and joined forces about three weeks after that meeting. Don was then working as a Fitter for Hodge Industrial installing underground petrol tanks and bowsers all across NSW.

In 1974 Melissa was born to them and Don’s boss offered them the use of a large caravan to use so that Don would not want to come home each weekend to be with his family and could spend months moving around NSW working.

This was a wonderful 18 months and there were few areas they did not get to spend time. Blayney in winter in an uninsulated caravan was an experience. Opening the van door at the tick gates and seeing their red kelpie, called Red, slithering around in the beetroot which had fallen out of the fridge, because someone had forgotten to put the pin in the fridge door was another.

Port Macquarie was one of the towns they visited and Don was offered work from Gordon Hunt should he ever move here.

In late ’76 they moved to Port Macquarie.

Alison was born in 1977 and the family was complete.

They lived in a small house just past Sea Acres near Johnson’s Fruit shop, which cost $12 a week. Here they were home. Chooks, ducks, a dog – Boris, cats – (Don was never too keen on these creatures) and Lucky - Don’s horse, two happy little girls and little money made this a happy home for Don and Therese

He worked on building sites and drove a backhoe and truck and was able to turn his hand to most things he tried.

In 1982 Don was badly injured while working in the canals behind Settlement City.

He became a quadriplegic and spent a seven-month stay at Royal North Shore Hospital (Sydney). Therese, Melissa and Alison moved for that period living near the hospital, with Therese’s eldest sister Veronica. All returned to Port Macquarie when Don was well enough

After a settling period, Don along with his wife Therese became involved in issues in which he believed in passionately. He lobbied Council in the ‘80’s for better wheelchair access and struck a deal with them that he would go halves in the cost of construction of wheelchair access on major access points around the CBD.

In the early ‘90’s he manned the RSPCA phone and was passionate about his commitment to this. Although it’s a well known fact Don was not a great cat lover, he abhorred cruelty of any sort and would too often be upset by the callousness of human beings to their pets and livestock.

His mother died in 1997. He not only looked out for his mother’s needs but also Therese’s mother and was always quick to see when others were had difficulties. He had a great compassion for others who were suffering illness or other.

When his sister Judy was dying in Queensland in 1998 he and Therese spent the last three months with her only leaving a few days before she passed away. This was a special time and he spent many days just quietly sitting by his sister’s bedside talking and laughing about family.

He believed ardently in the right of the individual to freedom of choice on issues regarding Fluoridation, and other and it is well known he did not suffer fools gladly. He was very active in the fight against the privatisation of Port Macquarie Hospital and he worked for years tirelessly to have the hospital returned to public hands.

Unfortunately he was stuck in bed on the day the Hospital Action Group had its celebration outside the hospital grounds once again when the hospital was finally handed back to the people of NSW in 2004, but he spent that morning harassing the local media, as was his wont, into speaking with the Hospital Action Group who were there from the beginning of the fight in early 1992.

He became actively involved in One Nation, and along with Marge Rowsell from Taree organised the original meeting in the Civic Centre when Pauline came to Port Macquarie and filled the Civic Centre to overflowing on a Tuesday morning. When Pauline moved away from One Nation so did Don. He was outraged by her jailing and worked as hard as he could writing letters etc to help raise awareness of the injustice often saying that if it could happen to such a public figure as Pauline, it could happen to any one of us, and that we each, on our own, must always fight against injustice when we are able…

When Pauline was released, fully exonerated he was over the moon.
Don and Therese moved out here to Craggy Island in early 2004. The sense of peace and beauty they both felt the first day they saw this place is still here with us and for Therese it is the essence of her husband and a fitting place for this service.

Becoming a Quadriplegic was bad enough, but Don was unlucky in that he was suffered constant pain and would comment on those few days when it totally lifted how good the day was. As the years went on this became much worse. His courage and endurance, still being able to be concerned about others, smiling, fooling about, being involved and interested and most of all never complaining, was truly wonderful to experience. It was heartbreaking at times when people did not understand his fragility and his exhaustion and bravery he showed by just facing the days at times.

The family are aware of the many roles Don played in life and on the small screen, where just the placement of a wig, or a hat and he would transform into little fat Eadie from Picnic at Hanging Rock which should now be known as “Picnic at Don Rock”…and his Mafia alter ego called “The Don” was done as seamlessly as he did everything.

There was the eighth day of the week “Don Day” which was a special day for the kids.

His force of personality and its many facets became something of a miracle to his family and especially Therese, Melissa and Alison. He was constantly concerned about their welfare, and that of the extended family, and he seemed to grow more compassionate, the more he suffered.

Melissa and Alison joke about the fact that they quickly learnt to never say they were bored because when they did he would give them jobs to do. Now adults they say they are grateful for this. He was fiercely independent and a gentle and concerned loving husband and father.

He passed away at his home on Thursday 17th May, two days before his eldest daughter Melissa and her fiancé Chris were due to be married. He had been in RNSH for 5 weeks and was flown home the night of his passing. Unable to speak because of the Ventilator for the past 5 weeks, when it was finally turned off, he softly talked and joked with those of us gathered for about two hours. He died with his family around him and was loved gently as he went with dignity and concern for others welfare the last things he expressed.

The manner of his passing after the terrible suffering he endured, will never be forgotten by those of us present, and has left us with no fear of death… none at all. Yet another of the precious gifts he left to those he loved. He was beautiful to the end and died quietly with his daughters and wife and other loved ones… in a quiet room... at home at last. He deserved such a peaceful seamless death to this life. His compassion and empathy for others; his sense of fun and stirring; his generosity; his unpredictability; his intense love of the natural world; so much, but more even was the love he held for his children Melissa and Alison, and his wife Therese. He loved them without conditions. Its known Don had his rough edges but the rough diamonds are always the best, and are always more precious

Thanks must go out to Therese’s sisters Veronica, Joan and Jackie for their support. Jackie spent the last day in the hospital with Don while the family drove home to meet the Air Ambulance. She went on the flight with him so that he always had someone with him he loved. Thanks to Carmel, Patsy, Mike, Rod, Neil and Renata, and Donna, and they know why.

The effort made by Don’s Doctor Dr Mark Stewart and the Air Ambulance and others made it possible for Don to have his last wish, which was to die at home.

He is survived by Therese his wife, Melissa and Alison his daughters and Ian his brother.

Goodbye for now our lovely Eadie… See you round like a rissole.

Melissa’s part

One things for sure this world will never be the same again without Don or better known as Noddy to Ali Mum and I.
Whenever I think of him it always makes me smile and a million memories come rushing to me. Each one making me happier. Dad had a wonderful sense of fun and a wicked wicked sense of humour. Which left a lot of people not quite sure, was he laughing at them? That made it funnier. Alison and I from a young age absolutely loved when he was being wickedly funny. Kids love it when someone can get away with saying and doing things naughty. Ali do you remember your first communion? I know mum and I sure do! Only 20 cents for a glass of water. We had some amazing times as a family, you couldn’t ask or wish for a better dad. He was always always there for you, and nothing was ever too much. The gap in our little family is going to be felt, but he is always with us, because he promised me once. I remember when dad was in hospital, his arms were tied with restraints, mum and I untied them and he stretched out his arms like he was going to fly away. I said jokingly, YOUR FREE! And he laughed and smiled it was the most beautiful smile. So I hope he is free and still has that beautiful smile, that I’ll never forget.
He deserves all the wonders of complete freedom and happiness.

Melissa Mackay
21.5.2007

Alison’s part
Where do I start, when trying to say goodbye, or a final “see you later” to you Dad? I know that you will always be with me & that I will meet you again, but for now you need to rest. I am so sorry for what happened to you at Royal North Shore Hospital, it was as you said “Shithouse”. We were lucky to have been with you at the end. I hope that you could feel all the love from us.
You & Mum gave us such a fun & rich childhood; there was always much laughter in the house. There are so many stories and great times that will always be with my heart. Thankyou for teaching me so many things its strange but I still remember each moment so clear when you taught me to tie my shoelaces, to dive properly into the pool, my times tables, telling the time on a real clock. All the times you watched me swimming by myself in the pool because I was always to scared jaws would get me if you weren’t watching. You would try to sneak away after a long while but I’d always catch you and you’d always come back out.

There were always lots of cuddles in our house, interesting games of monopoly, jobs if we admitted boredom, and there was always a right way to do jobs and a short time in which to begin them. That was just you though Dad and it became slightly amusing as we got older.

We have so many funny home videos of us four and others, but by far the best was our “Picnic at Don Rock!” you played Edie brilliantly and we have so many one-liners from it that will always make us laugh.

Thank you Dad for always being so helpful and kind to me. You always tried to make things better for me. All the phone calls over the last few years I will cherish. All the stories you told, all the silly voices we did. You taught me how to cope with things that were beyond my grasp, and always when the seriousness was over you’d get me chuckling again.

People tell me that I am like you in many ways and I am proud of that. You always taught me to stand up for myself too, which I am grateful for. You did so with such phrases as “Don’t take shit” and “are you gunna put up with that?” Dad you always taught me to be strong and fair. Two qualities that you have.

I will always love and cherish you, there have just been so many funny and warm times shared. I am so lucky to of have had a father like you, a friend like you and a teacher like you.

Take care Dad wherever you are right now, and always know how proud I am of you for who you are, how you lived, how you dealt with hardship’s, how you joked and how you loved.

I love you

Love always Ali

2007-03-16T15:26:00.000+10:30

Arsenic in my Fluoride? CDC admits Yes

Published on Monday, March 12, 2007
by Healthy News Service

New York – March 12, 2007 -- Trace amounts of arsenic are found in fluoride chemicals added to drinking water supplies, reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) website. (1)
Fluoridation is a controversial attempt to reduce tooth decay in tap-water consumers.
Fluoridation chemicals - sodium fluoride, sodium fluorosilicate, and fluorosilicic acid (FSA) – are all derived from the manufacture of phosphate fertilizer, reports the CDC. Trace amounts of unwanted contaminants, such as antimony, barium, beryllium, arsenic and others, are allowed to rema
in in fluoridation chemicals before flowing through America’s faucets (2) The CDC reports, tests by National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) revealed arsenic was present in sample batches of FSA. When trace amounts were present, the treated water had an average of 0.43 parts per billion (ppb) of arsenic, with a high of 1.66 ppb attributable to the fluoride additive. (2)
The NSF sets the allowable level of arsenic in fluoridation chemicals at 2.5 ppb. The maximum contaminant level (MCL) of arsenic in treated water is 10 ppb, set by the Environmental Protection Agency. But the maximum contaminant level goal (MCLG) of arsenic in drinking water is zero (5) and is based on health risks; however, the actual level permitted (MCL) is above 0, to account for difficulty in removing it or in measuring it. (6)
"No water company should purposely be adding arsenic to water supplies –even when it’s attached to a chemical perceived to be beneficial," says Beeber.
Trace levels of arsenic in drinking water increase a person's risk of developing cancer, according to a report from the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences. "People drinking water containing just one part per billion of arsenic have an increased risk of developing bladder or lung cancer of one in 1,000," reports New Scientist magazine. (3)
In an analysis of 25 states, the National Resources Defense Council found about 8,000 U.S. water systems, serving 57,000,000 people, contained arsenic levels at 1 ppb or higher.(4)
"Fluoridation has proven useless in fighting tooth decay in America’s low-income population as the recent unfortunate ‘tooth-decay’ death of a 12-year-old Maryland boy living in a fluoridated area has proven," says lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. "No child is or ever was fluoride-deficient. But many are dentist-deficient," says Beeber.
"Besides, modern science establishes that fluoridation is ineffective at reducing tooth decay, harmful to health and a waste of taxpayer money," says Beeber.
"We're glad the CDC finally admits that arsenic can be found in fluoridation chemicals. But CDC should go further and list all undesirable chemicals and impurities allowed in the fluoridation chemicals, and make it publicly known so consumers truly can make an informed choice," says Beeber.
Contact: Paul S. Beeber, Esq., President and General Counsel, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. nyscof@aol.com
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
Fluoridation News Releases tinyurl.com/6kqtu
Tooth Decay Crises in Fluoridated Areas http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com/
Fluoride Action Network www.FluorideAction.Net
Fluoride Journal www.FluorideResearch.Org
References:
(1) U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dep’t of Health and Human Services – Water Fluoridation – Guidelines & Recommendations – Water Fluoridation Additives (accessed March 11, 2007) http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/engineering/wfadditives.htm
(2) April 24,2000 letter from NSF International to State of Florida, Department of Public Health http://www.fluoridealert.org/NSF-Letter.pdf
(3) New Scientist, "Trace arsenic in water raises cancer risk," by Emma Young, September 14, 2001 http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1300
(4) National Resources Defense Council, "Arsenic and Old Laws." Chapter 1 - Arsenic has been found at levels of health concern in the tap water of tens of millions of Americans in 25 states http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/arsenic/chap1.asp
(5) www.epa.gov/safewater/arsenic/index.html
(6) www.fluoridealert.org/thiessen-statement.pdf

Provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on 3/12/2007

2007-02-01T09:10:00.000+10:30

Hi,
This just came down today. The effects of fluorides on llivestock is well documented and accepted by agricultural departments and farmers world over. According to the Health Department, Federal and State Governments and Medical bodies we human beings are the only mammals unaffected by fluorides...(curious?).
Compliments
Therese Mackay
President of the Hastings Safe Water Association Port Macquarie Australia
tmackay@tsn.cc and dmackay@tsn.cc

European investigation into Castlecomer farm gets green light
Kilkenny Advertiser 31/1/07
By Naoise O' Donovan Coogan and Mike Burke in Bru
A bid by a north Kilkenny farmer to secure a European investigation into problems which have been ongoing on his farm for 16 years, has been successful.
Dan Brennan brought his case before the petitions committee of the European Parliament in an effort to persuade them to conduct an independent investigation into the mysterious health problems affecting his dairy herd.
The c ommittee has asked the Commission to undertake a full review of all the scientific reports carried out on the farm to date.
Mr Brennan told the Kilkenny Advertiser yesterday evening (Tuesday) that he was delighted that his case is to be investigated by the European Petitions Committee as he was at his wits' end.
"This was a final attempt to try and sort out the problems that are affecting my cattle on my farm. They have experienced stunted growth and have not thrived in years. There is something wrong and I have been down every other avenue in an attempt to discover what the problem is. The Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency have not been helpful and have passed the buck and walked away from the problem while I have to continue on as I am. It has been very frustrating for me and my family over the years trying to figure out what the problem might be, so I am delighted that finally the committee will now investigate this case."
Dan Brennan has a 170-acre farm outside Castlecomer, close to the location of the Ormonde Brick factory on the outskirts of the town. Yesterday he expressed his concerns to the Chairman of the committee about the emissions coming from the stack at Ormonde Brick. He told the committee that he believed that emissions of hydrogen fluoride from the stack had been in breach of an integrated pollution control licence. He added that at various times, he also believed that the company had been non-compliant with the terms of their license with respect to fluoride and chloride results.
However, the Chairman of the committee said any suggestion that emissions from the brick factory are responsible for Mr Brennan's predicament were purely speculative at this stage as the case documented on the petitions form had not yet been established. He added, "it is important however, that the applicable community legislation is fully implemented in order to protect health and the environment."
The Chairman then gave a commitment to visit Mr Brennan's farm when the committee was visiting Ireland to investigate a different case.
Mr Brennan's herd mysteriously lose weight, animals have stunted growth, milk yields from the cows is significantly down and dozens of calves have died. Also, it has been noted that around the farm, over 100 trees have died. There have also been rumours that trees in the nearby golf club have died and samples were sent to be tested by the club. It is unclear as to whether or not other farmers in the area are also experiencing similar problems to Mr Brennan.
The Environmental Protection Agency has examined emissions from the nearby brick factory, but the company says the EPA and Department of Agriculture investigations have shown no link between the plant and the problems on the Brennan farm.
Mr Brennan said that one way or the other he is happy that the case will be examined at European level.
"I accept that they cannot make a decision without coming to see my farm. I am a lot more positive today - I think there is hope again for the future."
Mr Brennan was in Brussels with two local vets, Tom Slevin and Michael Lambe along with Green Party Deputy Leader, Mary White.
Cllr White said that she was delighted with the outcome of yesterday's hearing.
"I very much welcome the decision of the EU Petitions Committee to keep this petition open and to come on a fact-finding mission to Dan Brennan's farm in Castlecomer.
"Anyone who has visited the farm will be shocked at the small size and state of the cattle. It is obvious that there is a serious problem affecting the farm which has been attributed to non-farming practices and which also affects the trees on the farm. It took me six months of research to put this case together on Dan's behalf and we have come to Brussels because the statutory agencies in Ireland have failed this farmer."

2007-01-11T14:01:00.000+10:30

Next week I am going to down to Sydney (Australia) to begin to have my teeth fixed...by fixed I mean to have all the Amalgam fillings removed and to get rid of t root canal which has been troubling me ever since the local dentist convinced me I had to have one... In Austrailia the best known specialist dentist who does this properly, ensuring you don't cop toxic loads of mercury when they drill out the old muck is dr Robert gammal. I have his link here and on this blog permanently. Before going to Sydney for this which i have been wsaving for and hoping to have done for ages... I had a look at the web site... of the clinic. It is excellent and has really up to date information of health issues caused by dentistry...and fluorides... I hope you will get as much out of this site as I have. There is always something new to learn every day. http://www.bcd.com.au/

2007-01-09T14:59:00.000+10:30

Yet another nail in the coffin of Fluoridation has been reported from Israel which began introducing artificial Fluoridation in the '80s. A health committee is recommending fluoridation be stopped until the matter is appropriately researched. The reason for the study being: "not a single definitive study demonstrates that the process has any benefit for dental health" and "adding fluoride might even be harmful."

When mandatory fluoridation was introduced into Israel four years ago a storm blew up in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament): apart from the protest against enforcing fluoridation, points were raised about harm to the environment and health. Professor Adin (Israeli Health Committee) said that the committee will recommend removing the requirement to add fluoride to the water and that every municipal authority will be permitted to make its own decision. "It is assumed that adoption of this (committee) recommendation will result in most local authorities (in Israel) ceasing to add fluoride to the drinking water for the time being.”

Israel joins most of the world community in this view. Australia as one of the most heavily fluoridated countries on earth still has high decay rates, as much in Fluoridated Western Sydney as in fluoridated Melbourne. Studies have shown no difference in decay rates in fluoridated and unflouridated areas. The Israeli Government was unable to find one single definitive study demonstrating the efficacy of Fluoridation in stopping tooth decay.

At this stage with country after country rejecting Fluoridation it would be wise governance to bide time and wait to see the outcome of the multitude of studies, the weight of which can no longer be ignored by the health authorities who at senior level appear more interested in protecting their own jobs and prestige than in looking out for the health of the population they are well paid to protect.

Our high rate of Water Fluoridation means we are out of step with the rest of the countries of the world most of whom have rejected water fluoridation for health and environment reasons.

Therese Mackay President of the Hastings Safe Water Association

2006-11-22T14:20:00.000+10:30

Important Information re WHO's most current concerns re fluoridation and fluorides... it is clear with the studies coming out in quick succession that the authorities overseas are finally expressing alarm but softly soflty... recently I was sent information ofrom a firm of US Lawyers who are ofering to proceed with litigation on behalf of anyone who has develloped Osteosarcoma as result of Fluorides. Their link is http://www.waters-kraus.com/ ...it begins..
From Hastings Safe Water Association
Therese and Don Mackay

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New World Health Organization publication - "Fluoride in Drinking-water"
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Published: Tuesday, 21-Nov-2006
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Millions of people are exposed to excessive amounts of fluoride through drinking water contaminated from natural geological sources. As a result, many suffer conditions ranging from mild dental fluorosis to crippling skeletal fluorosis. With the problem continuing to be unrecognized and neglected, guidance is sorely needed.
Clinical dental fluorosis is characterized by staining and pitting of the teeth. In more severe cases, all the enamel may be damaged. In skeletal fluorosis, fluoride accumulates in the bone progressively over many years, leading to stiffness and pain in the joints. In severe cases, it can cause changes to bone structure, calcification of ligaments, and crippling effects.
The World Health Organization's (WHO) publication, Fluoride in Drinking-water addresses this urgent need, providing the latest scientific evidence on the occurrence of fluoride, its health effects, methods to reduce excess levels, and analysis techniques.
Guidance is particularly needed because fluoride is found in all natural waters at some concentration. Low concentrations are good for teeth, but excessive concentrations can lead to debilitating disease, such as skeletal fluorosis, which has devastated some communities. In China alone, more than 10 million people are estimated to suffer from skeletal fluorosis.
While the global prevalence of dental and skeletal fluorosis is not entirely clear, it is known that water is normally the major source of fluoride exposure, with exposure from diet and from burning high fluoride coal also major contributors in some settings. Fluoride occurs at elevated concentrations in many areas of the world including Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and southern Asia. One of the best known high fluoride areas extends from Turkey through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, India, northern Thailand and China. However, there are many other areas with water sources that contain high fluoride levels and which pose a risk to those drinking the water, notably parts of the rift valley in Africa. Many of these areas are arid and alternative sources of water are not available.
This suffering caused by high levels of fluoride can be prevented. Although removal of excessive fluoride from drinking-water may be difficult and expensive, low-cost solutions that can be applied at a local level do exist. Methods outlined in the monograph include: use of crushed clay pots, bone charcoal, contact precipitation, or use of activated alumina (absorptive filter). It is important that local authorities consider the causes of fluorosis carefully and choose the best and most appropriate means of dealing with excess fluoride exposure taking into account the local conditions and sensitivities.
Fluoride in Drinking-water is one out of a series of WHO monographs, which address the management of other chemicals in drinking-water, such as arsenic or cyanotoxins.
http://www.who.int

New WHO report tackles fluoride in drinking-water
21 NOVEMBER 2006 GENEVA -- Millions of people are exposed to excessive amounts of fluoride through drinking water contaminated from natural geological sources. As a result, many suffer conditions ranging from mild dental fluorosis to crippling skeletal fluorosis. With the problem continuing to be unrecognized and neglected, guidance is sorely needed.
Clinical dental fluorosis is characterized by staining and pitting of the teeth. In more severe cases, all the enamel may be damaged. In skeletal fluorosis, fluoride accumulates in the bone progressively over many years, leading to stiffness and pain in the joints. In severe cases, it can cause changes to bone structure, calcification of ligaments, and crippling effects.
The World Health Organization's (WHO) publication, Fluoride in Drinking-water addresses this urgent need, providing the latest scientific evidence on the occurrence of fluoride, its health effects, methods to reduce excess levels, and analysis techniques.
Guidance is particularly needed because fluoride is found in all natural waters at some concentration. Low concentrations are good for teeth, but excessive concentrations can lead to debilitating disease, such as skeletal fluorosis, which has devastated some communities. In China alone, more than 10 million people are estimated to suffer from skeletal fluorosis.
While the global prevalence of dental and skeletal fluorosis is not entirely clear, it is known that water is normally the major source of fluoride exposure, with exposure from diet and from burning high fluoride coal also major contributors in some settings. Fluoride occurs at elevated concentrations in many areas of the world including Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and southern Asia. One of the best known high fluoride areas extends from Turkey through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, India, northern Thailand and China. However, there are many other areas with water sources that contain high fluoride levels and which pose a risk to those drinking the water, notably parts of the rift valley in Africa. Many of these areas are arid and alternative sources of water are not available.
This suffering caused by high levels of fluoride can be prevented. Although removal of excessive fluoride from drinking-water may be difficult and expensive, low-cost solutions that can be applied at a local level do exist. Methods outlined in the monograph include: use of crushed clay pots, bone charcoal, contact precipitation, or use of activated alumina (absorptive filter). It is important that local authorities consider the causes of fluorosis carefully and choose the best and most appropriate means of dealing with excess fluoride exposure taking into account the local conditions and sensitivities.
Fluoride in Drinking-water is one out of a series of WHO monographs, which address the management of other chemicals in drinking-water, such as arsenic or cyanotoxins.
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This PDF is from the WHO and could have some important informaiton... it is 144 pages http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/fluoride_drinking_water_full.pdf

2006-11-18T17:33:00.000+10:30

HMMM
I thought the meaning of the 33 foot sculpture (pictured below) recently erected at Grand Rapids - the home of the world's first mass fluoridation experiment - by the West Michigan Dental Association, was quite clear.
Regards
Dennis Stevenson
Firstly, at the right of the picture is a patient. That they are a dental patient is obvious from their mouth being wide open. As their tongue is all the way out, obviously they are screaming. We'll get to why they are screaming in a moment. Gathered around the patient are 5 dentists. Equally obviously, as there are five dentists and not just one, it must be a training session, as only one dentist is required to extract whatever money a patient might have.
The two dentists on the left can be seen to be senior to the other three, as is clearly shown by their height. The tallest dentist is the lead instructor and his colleague, on his immediate right, is the 'watchdog'. I'm sure all of us are aware that when a dentist speaks at a public meeting, there has to be another ADA approved dentist in the audience to report on what the first dentist says.?Naturally the same requirement exists when dentists are being trained. Though it is almost preposterous to consider that any ADA approved dentist would tell the truth (remember what happened to Mel Gibson in the movie Conspiracy Theory) the ADA is ever vigilant to ensure that no dentist should mention, even accidently, that fluoridation is anything but "absolutely safe and effective". Though it seems silly and is extremely unlikely to occur, imagine the repercussions if a dentist told students that fluorosis was chronic fluoride poisoning of the 'whole body' and not just a 'minor cosmetic effect' on teeth only?
Which leads us into exactly what the trainee-dentists were learning at the time the picture was taken. This is revealed by the attitude of the students. You will note their proximity to the patient: this shows that the 'cosmetic effect' of dental fluorosis is being discussed and specifically, the vast fees that can be made from gluing white plastic covers over the fluorosis disfigured teeth of patients - at $600 to $1,200 per tooth. This is, of course, why the patient is screaming.?
However, you can imagine why the trainees are so excited. Not only have they just learned how much they can charge patients, but they have also discovered that fluorosis, or 'egg-shell white' mottling as they prefer to call it, is a never-ending source of money, provided they keep promoting fluoridation, as this is what causes the mottling. Now they realise how they can easily pay cash for a new premier Mercedes every year, not to mention the endless golf and wonderful conferences sponsored and paid for by Mars Bars Pty. Ltd.
You will also notice at the bottom left side of the picture, almost hidden behind trees, is what can just be seen of a car window. The window, exactly positioned so that it has a clear view of the meeting through the trees, looks black. However, expanded digital film analysis reveals that state of the art video equipment is recording everything that is being done at the meeting. This is another requirement of Sigma-Delta-Sigma, the secret society of dentists, which dentists are on a blood oath never to mention. You may recall the deputy President of the NZ Dental Association who accidentally acknowledgedly that the society exists before he realized his error and stumbled out with "My membership of any organisation has got nothing to do with your interview." Have you ever seen him again?
Something to also be seen in the photograph is the golden path. Because of poor reflection, this shows in the photograph as a white section on which the dentists are standing. This is always there when dentists are being trained to ever remind them of the dental brotherhood and the riches that await them if they obey the 5 Golden Rules.
You will notice one of the dentists, the smallest and most junior one, has the 5 Golden Rules written on his back. Enlarged, they read:
1. I promise to always pretend I and brother dentists are doctors though we are not medically qualified and do not have doctorates.
2. I promise to protect any brother dentist who kills a patient with mercury or a topical fluoride treatment.
3. I promise to?charge every patient extras for: cleaning, topical fluoride treatment and x-rays and to never reduce fees or disclose to outsiders how many hundreds of thousands of dollars I make annually.
4. I promise never to publicly debate fluoridation but only to forever repeat the dental mantra "Fluoridation is absolutely safe and effective". I will always vehemently deny that fluoride is a rat poison.
5. I promise to follow the 50 year old published advice from the American Dental Association to always denigrate and ridicule those who speak against fluoridation, no matter how well qualified they are.
Hopefully this brought a smile to your lips...it did to ours but we are too easily amused.

Lancet Article warns of brain damage

2006-11-11T17:23:00.000+10:30

Lancet Article warns – One in Six Children Brain Damaged by Industrial Pollutants
Thanks to Bill from UK Fluoridation blog...see my links
‘The Hastings Safe Water Association has just been informed of a study published in leading medical journal “The Lancet” that millions of children – “One in six children” throughout the world may have suffered brain damage as a result of industrial pollution. Says Therese Mackay, President of the Hastings Safe Water Association. In the past year there have been at least ten scientific articles like this warning of the extreme dangers of Fluorides to human health, now this latest one in the Lancet should have alarm bells ringing in even the most inflexible Fluoridation proponents ears.’

Therese Mackay says, “In light of this all Councils have a responsibility first, to the residents, especially to children, to call an immediate halt to any plans to fluoridate our water.”
In the Lancet, the two scientists Philippe Grandjean, from the University of Southern Denmark in Winslowparken and his co-author, Philip Landrigan, from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York conclude: “The combined evidence suggests that neurodevelopmental disorders caused by industrial chemicals has created a silent pandemic in modern society.”
The American and Danish researchers say that “ lead, methylmercury, arsenic and solvents such as ethanol and toluene are among 202 industrial and agricultural chemicals with potential to damage the brain... Other substances that could prove to be toxic in excessive amounts include fluoride, a common additive in drinking water and toothpaste.” End quote.

The Lancet article stated, “Potential effects of exposure to even tiny amounts of toxic chemicals include lower IQ scores and conditions such as autism, attention deficit disorder, and cerebral palsy.”

‘How many more nails does the coffin of Fluoridation need before the lid is finally secured? Worldwide, almost weekly, responsible and credible bodies of scientists are warning of grim long and short-term effects of Fluorides. One out of six of all our children worldwide is too big a price to pay. Therese Mackay said

‘We have kept our Council informed of these studies and they will not be able to say they did not know. But far better for the health of our community if they stop Fluoridation before it begins. President of The Hastings Safe Water Association said.
Contact Therese Mackay – President of the Hastings Safe Water for comment.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-2442654,00.html

2006-11-08T14:30:00.000+10:30

here is the 18 page judgement see post below re fluoride

http://www.healthfreedomlaw.com/Sherrell/Judgment%20Sherrel.pdf

2006-11-08T14:02:00.000+10:30

Quackbusters Lose Anti-Flouridation Case go to http://quackbusteralert.blogspot.com/2006/11/quackbusters-lose-anti-flouridation.html for this below

7th Nov 2006
A federal judge ruled against the Quackbuster consortium and handed Darlene Sherrel a major victory in an anti-fluoridation case. Level heads and common sense judgment prevailed in what is another milestone for natural health.Text obtained from www.healthfreedomlaw.com--------------------------------------In yet another MAJOR VICTORY for the Anti-Fluoride Movement and a setback for Stephen Barrett (self-described "expert" on "quackery"), a Federal Court Judge in Eugene, Oregon, has ruled that Barrett could not prove his case against well known anti-fluoridation advocate, Darlene Sherrell.
Barrett filed his lawsuit against Darlene Sherrell in 1999 demanding $100,000 in "damages" for alleged defamation and sought an injunction against Sherrell for posting information about Barrett on her web site ( http://www.rvi.net/~fluoride).
Darlene Sherrell is a well known independent researcher and expert on the dangers of excessive daily intake of fluoride in human beings leading to chronic fluoride poisoning. Barrett is a prominent national activist who advocates the "safety" of fluoridation in drinking water. Sherrell testified that she believed that Barrett was a "virtual lobbyist" for medical doctors, drug, chemical and food companies.
Barrett operates a website ( www.quackwatch.com ) that attacks dozens of findings by independent researchers and alternative therapists, including chiropractors, as being "quacks." Among his attacks are challenges to the anti-fluoridation movement.
Barrett was a medical doctor who gave up his license to practice medicine in 1991 and has not practiced medicine ever since.
The was Barrett's first trial for defamation. This, even though he has managed to obtain settlements from other individuals that he has targeted in similar lawsuits.
The Law Offices of Carlos F. Negrete and Health Freedom Legal Defense Council agreed to accept Darlene Sherrell's case in order to give a voice to the anti-fluoridation movement and defend Sherrell.
Background:
In the summer of 1998, Darlene Sherrell, challenged Barrett to come forward to name a study demonstrating the safety of current fluoride levels in drinking water and the effect excessive daily intake of fluoride as a possible cause to chronic fluoride poisoning. At the time, in response to Sherrell's challenge Barrett was "careful to state that he is and was aware of hundreds of studies pertaining to the safety of fluoridation of drinking water..."
However, "...He did not testify that any study demonstrates the safety of current fluoridation levels..." Barrett had rebuked Sherrell's continuous challenges and sent a message to her stating that she (Sherrell) was "delusional."
On November 5, 2002, after a trial in October, 2002, Federal Judge Michael R. Hogan ruled in favor of Sherrell and against Barrett. He ordered the case dismissed.
The full ruling can be read here .
Before the trial, Barrett's defamation case against Sherrell had been languishing in the court for years awaiting trial. Trial was finally set for June, 2002.
Two weeks before trial, Sherrell engaged the Law Offices of Carlos F. Negrete and the Health Freedom Legal Defense Council based upon their experience with defending cases that had been filed by Barrett previously and their commitment to health freedom and environmental issues.
Darlene Sherrell was convinced of the correctness of her findings and public statements. She refused to settle with Barrett and pay any money to him or even remove the information about the dangers of Fluoride poisoning on her website. Instead, she was committed to having her "day in court" on the fluoridation issues and vigorously defend what she believes to have been bullying tactics of Barrett.
We congratulate Darlene Sherrell for her courage, conviction and commitment to advocating information about the dangers of chronic food poisoning.
Health Freedom Legal Defense Council and the Law Offices of Carlos F. Negrete are dedicated to representing individuals and organizations that share similar beliefs in health freedom and prevention of toxic contamination.
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Professor Douglass conflict of interest?

2006-09-19T06:25:00.000+09:30

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Prof in Fluoride Flap Gave $1M to Harvard
Gift to Dental School leaves watchdog group with bad taste in mouth
Published On 9/18/2006 2:55:07 AM
By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
Crimson Staff Writer
A School of Dental Medicine professor cleared last month of allegations that he covered up links between fluoride and bone cancer is listed as a million-dollar benefactor of the school’s new research and education building. The revelation has led one environmental advocacy group to suggest that a recent Harvard investigation of the professor, Chester W. Douglass, may have been compromised due to the professor’s status as a patron of the school. The Washington-based Environmental Working Group, which initially brought the accusations against Douglass, said on Friday that the professor’s donation discredits the impartiality of Harvard’s review. “There is nothing wrong with donating a million dollars to your employer, but it does create a potentially serious conflict of interest when the recipient of the million dollars is investigating the ethics of the donor,” the group’s senior vice-president, Richard Wiles, said in a statement. Douglass did not respond to repeated requests for comment at his home and office. Likewise, officials at the School of Dental Medicine and Harvard Medical School did not respond to e-mails and phone calls over the weekend. The Environmental Working Group alleged in 2005 that Douglass had suppressed the research of one of his students, Elise Bassin. Her research found an increased risk for osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, in young boys drinking fluoridated water. Douglass’s own studies found no connection between fluoride consumption and an increased likelihood of the cancer. While the panel of senior Harvard professors conducting the investigation did not take a position on the cancer link, they stated that Douglass “did not intentionally omit, misrepresent, or suppress” Bassin’s findings. Douglass also serves as the editor of a journal produced by fluoridated-toothpaste maker Colgate. But the Harvard investigators reported that Douglass’s involvement with Colgate did not violate federal guidelines. In addition, the investigators said, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Research Integrity oversaw Harvard’s review of Douglass and determined that no further investigation would be necessary. The documents related to Harvard’s investigation have not been released. In both the 2004 and 2005 fiscal years, Douglass gave between $1,867 and $2,499 to the School of Dental Medicine, according to annual reports posted on the school’s website. The reports do not mention Douglass’s million-dollar gift to the school, but his name is emblazoned on a plaque in the lobby of the new 60,000-square-foot research and education building at 190 Avenue in Boston. On the plaque Douglass and his wife, Joy, are listed as one of six benefactors giving $1 million or more to the school. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=514302

fluoride damages liver and kidneys

2006-08-23T14:30:00.000+09:30

The Hastings Safe Water Association
43 Willow Cresent PORT MACQUARIE 2444
Phone 02 6583 9622 – 0417 279 602
dmackay@tsn.cc  tmackay@tsn.cc

23/8/06
Fluoride Damages Children's Liver and Kidneys

Dear Editor,
Fluoride in drinking water damages children's liver and kidney functions, according to a new study in "Environmental Research”

Xiong and colleagues write, "Our results suggest that drinking water fluoride levels over 2.0 mg/L can cause damage to liver and kidney functions in children. Further, dental fluorosis, which is fluoride-discoloured teeth, can be an indicator of kidney function harm. (See http://tinyurl.com/l4hho  )

Researchers grouped 210 Chinese children (aged 10 - 12 years old) by drinking water fluoride levels (averaging 0.76; 1.47; 2.58; and 4.5l mg/L). Dental fluorosis rates, respectively, were 15%, 41%, 79% and 94%.  Blood serum and urine samples revealed- that Fluoride levels increased as water fluoride levels increased. Liver and kidney enzymes elevated, indicative of liver or kidney damage, in children drinking water with over 2mg fluoride per litre and Liver function can be damaged without dental
Fluorosis.

"Dose-effect relationship between water fluoride levels and damage to liver and kidney functions in animals has been reported. However, this is one of the few to do so in humans. The liver and kidneys are especially susceptible to fluoride toxicity”, the authors of the study write.

The 2 mg fluoride daily is very often exceeded from food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and dental products. Bottle fed Babies fed Fluoridated water exceed 4mg. This is above 400% of the recommended daily dose. Clearly this is more evidence showing fluoridation is not only harmful, but also unethical and immoral.

The Hastings Safe Water Association believes that should Council and the NSW Health Department still proceed to add Sodium Silicio Fluoride to our drinking water supply this would be criminal.

Councillors have all been kept very well informed about the dangers exposed by many recent studies. They can never say that they were not informed. Apart from Cameron Price, Lisa Intemann and Jamie Harrison, there is a deafening silence from them on this issue. They ignored the Ellie Bassin Harvard study on Osteosarcoma in young boys and its link with Fluoridation. Will they also ignore this latest shocking exposure?
Yours Sincerely, Therese Mackay
President Hastings Safe Water Association.  (Thanks to Paul Beeber President of NYSCOF)

2006-08-16T15:22:00.000+09:30

Iodine for Health
by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MDby Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
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There is growing evidence that Americans would have better health and a lower incidence of cancer and fibrocystic disease of the breast if they consumed more iodine. A decrease in iodine intake coupled with an increased consumption of competing halogens, fluoride and bromide, has created an epidemic of iodine deficiency in America.
People in the U.S. consume an average 240 micrograms (µg) of iodine a day. In contrast, people in Japan consume more than 12 milligrams (mg) of iodine a day (12,000 µg), a 50-fold greater amount. They eat seaweed, which include brown algae (kelp), red algae (nori sheets, with sushi), and green algae (chlorella). Compared to terrestrial plants, which contain only trace amounts of iodine (0.001 mg/gm), these marine plants have high concentrations of this nutrient (0.5–8.0 mg/gm). When studied in 1964, Japanese seaweed consumption was found to be 4.5 grams (gm) a day and that eaten had a measured iodine concentration of 3.1 mg/gm of seaweed (= 13.8 mg of iodine). According to public health officials, mainland Japanese now consume 14.5 gm of seaweed a day (= 45 mg of iodine, if its iodine content, not measured, remains unchanged). Researchers have determined that residents on the coast of Hokkaido eat a quantity of seaweed sufficient to provide a daily iodine intake of 200 mg a day. Saltwater fish and shellfish contain iodine, but one would have to eat 15–25 pounds of fish to get 12 mg of iodine.
Health comparisons between the two countries are disturbing. The incidence of breast cancer in the U.S. is the highest in the world, and in Japan, until recently, the lowest. Japanese women who emigrate from Japan or adopt a Western style diet have a higher rate of breast cancer compared with those that consume seaweed. Life expectancy in the U.S. is 77.85 years, 48th in 226 countries surveyed. It is 81.25 years in Japan, the highest of all industrialized countries and only slightly behind the five leaders – Andorra, Macau, San Marino, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The infant mortality rate in Japan is the lowest in the world, 3.5 deaths under age one per 1,000 live births, half the infant mortality rate in the United States.
Today 1 in 7 American women (almost 15 percent) will develop breast cancer during their lifetime. Thirty years ago, when iodine consumption was twice as high as it is now (480 µg a day) 1 in 20 women developed breast cancer. Iodine was used as a dough conditioner in making bread, and each slice of bread contained 0.14 mg of iodine. In 1980, bread makers started using bromide as a conditioner instead, which competes with iodine for absorption into the thyroid gland and other tissues in the body. Iodine was also more widely used in the dairy industry 30 years ago than it is now.
Now iodized table salt is the chief source of iodine in a Western diet. But 45 percent of American households buy salt without iodine, which grocery stores also sell. And over the last three decades people who do use iodized table salt have decreased their consumption of it by 65 percent. Furthermore, the much higher concentrations of chloride in salt (NaCl) inhibits absorption of its sister halogen iodine (the intestines absorb only 10 percent of the iodine present in iodized table salt). As a result, 15 percent of the U.S. adult female population suffers from moderate to severe iodine deficiency, which health authorities define as a urinary iodine concentration less than 50 µg /L. Women with goiters (a visible, noncancerous enlargement of the thyroid gland) owing to iodine deficiency have been found to have a three times greater incidence of breast cancer. A high intake of iodine is associated with a low incidence breast cancer, and a low intake with a high incidence of breast cancer.
Animal studies show that iodine prevents breast cancer, arguing for a causal association in these epidemiological findings. The carcinogens nitrosmethylurea and DMBA cause breast cancer in more than 70 percent of female rats. Those given iodine, especially in its molecular form as I2, have a statistically significant decrease in incidence of cancer. Other evidence adding biologic plausibility to the hypothesis that iodine prevents breast cancer includes the finding that the ductal cells in the breast, the ones most likely to become cancerous, are equipped with an iodine pump (the sodium iodine symporter, the same one that the thyroid gland has) to soak up this element.
Similar findings apply to fibrocystic disease of the breast. The incidence of fibrocystic breast disease in American women was 3 percent in the 1920s. Today, 90 percent of women have this disorder, manifested by epithelial hyperplasia, apocrine gland metaplasia, fluid-filled cysts, and fibrosis. Six million American women with fibrocystic disease have moderate to severe breast pain and tenderness that lasts more than 6 days during the menstrual cycle.
In animal studies, female rats fed an iodine-free diet develop fibrocystic changes in their breasts, and iodine in its elemental form (I2) cures it.
Russian researchers first showed, in 1966, that iodine effectively relieves signs and symptoms of fibrocystic breast disease. Vishniakova and Murav’eva treated 167 women suffering from fibrocystic disease with 50 mg KI during the intermenstrual period and obtained a beneficial healing effect in 71 percent (it is reference 49 here).
Then Ghent and coworkers, in a study published in the Canadian Journal of Surgery in 1993, likewise found that iodine relieves signs and symptoms of fibrocystic breast disease in 70 percent of their patients. This report is a composite of three clinical studies, two case series done in Canada in 696 women treated with various types of iodine, and one in Seattle. The Seattle study, done at the Virginia Mason Clinic, is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 56 women designed to compare 3–5 mg of elemental iodine (I2) to a placebo (an aqueous mixture of brown vegetable dye with quinine). Investigators followed the women for six months and tracked subjective and objective changes in their fibrocystic disease.
A statistical analysis of the Seattle study (enlarged to include 92 women) was done, which shows that iodine has a highly statistically significant beneficial effect on fibrocystic disease (P <0.001). href="http://www.donaldmiller.com/Iodine_For_Fibrocystic_Disease_MX04.pdf" target="_blank">36-page report, now available online, was submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1995 seeking its approval to carry out a larger randomized controlled clinical trial on iodine for treating fibrocystic breast disease. It declined to approve the study, telling its lead investigator, Dr. Donald Low, "iodine is a natural substance, not a drug." But the FDA has now decided to approve a similar trial sponsored by Symbollon Pharmaceuticals. This company is enrolling 175 women in a phase III trial, registered on clinicaltrials.gov. (Any women with fibrocystic disease reading this who might be interested in participating in this study should call its sponsor, Jack Kessler, Ph.D., at 508-620-7676, Ext. 201.)
Most physicians and surgeons view iodine from a narrow perspective. It is an antiseptic that disinfects drinking water and prevents surgical wound infections, and the thyroid gland needs it to make thyroid hormones – and that’s it. (When painted on the skin prior to surgery, tincture of iodine kills 90 percent of bacteria present within 90 seconds.) The thyroid gland needs iodine to synthesize thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3), hormones that regulate metabolism and steer growth and development. T4 contains four iodine atoms combined with 27 other atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, but owing to its large size accounts for 65 percent of the molecule’s weight. (T3 has three iodine atoms.) The thyroid needs only a trace amount of iodine, 70 µg a day, to produce the requisite amount of T4 and T3. For that reason thyroidologists say that iodine is best taken just in microgram amounts. They consider consuming more than 1 to 2 mg of iodine a day to be excessive and potentially harmful.
Expert opinion on iodine is now the purview of thyroidologists. Mainstream physicians and surgeons accept their thyroid-only view of iodine and either ignore or discount studies that show iodine in larger amounts provides extrathyroidal benefits, particularly for women’s breasts. Thus a leading textbook on breast disease, Bland and Copeland’s The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Disorders(2003), fails to mention iodine anywhere in its 1,766 pages.
Iodine has an important and little understood history. This relatively scarce element has played a pivotal role in the formation of our planet’s atmosphere and in the evolution of life. For more than two billion years there was no oxygen in the atmosphere until a new kind of bacteria, cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), began producing oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria also developed an affinity for iodine. The most likely reason is that these organisms used iodine as an antioxidant to protect themselves against the free radicals that oxygen breeds (superoxide anion, hydrogen peroxide, and hydroxyl radical). Studying kelp, researchers have shown how iodine does this and have found that kelp will absorb increased amounts of iodine when placed under oxidative stress. Other researchers have shown that iodine increases the antioxidant status of human serum similar to that of vitamin C.
Iodine also induces apoptosis, programmed cell death. This process is essential to growth and development (fingers form in the fetus by apoptosis of the tissue between them) and for destroying cells that represent a threat to the integrity of the organism, like cancer cells and cells infected with viruses. Human lung cancer cells with genes spliced into them that enhance iodine uptake and utilization undergo apoptosis and shrink when given iodine, both when grown in vitro outside the body and implanted in mice. Its anti-cancer function may well prove to be iodine’s most important extrathyroidal benefit.
Iodine has other extrathyroidal functions that require more study. It removes toxic chemicals – fluoride, bromide, lead, aluminum, mercury – and biological toxins, suppresses auto-immunity, strengthens the T-cell adaptive immune system, and protects against abnormal growth of bacteria in the stomach.
In addition to the thyroid and mammary glands, other tissues possess an iodine pump (the sodium/iodine symporter). Stomach mucosa, the salivary glands, and lactating mammary glands can concentrate iodine almost to the same degree as the thyroid gland (40-fold greater than its concentration in blood). Other tissues that have this pump include the ovaries; thymus gland, seat of the adaptive immune system; skin; choroid plexus in the brain, which makes cerebrospinal fluid; and joints, arteries and bone.
Today’s medical establishment is wary of iodine (as they are of most naturally occurring, nonpatentable, nonpharmaceutical agents). Thyroidologists cite the Wolff-Chaikoff effect and warn that TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) blood levels can rise with an iodine intake of a milligram or more. The Wolff-Chaikoff effect, a temporary inhibition of thyroid hormone synthesis that supposedly occurs with increased iodine intake, is of no clinical significance. And an elevated TSH, when it occurs, is "subclinical." This means that no signs or symptoms of hypothyroidism accompany its rise. Some people taking milligram doses of iodine, usually more than 50 mg a day, develop mild swelling of the thyroid gland without symptoms. The vast majority of people, 98 to 99 percent, can take iodine in doses ranging from 10 to 200 mg a day without any clinically adverse affects on thyroid function. The prevalence of thyroid diseases in the 127 million people in Japan who consume high amounts of iodine is not much different than that in the U.S.
Everyone agrees that a lack of iodine in the diet causes a spectrum of disorders that includes, in increasing order of severity, goiter and hypothyroidism, mental retardation, and cretinism (severe mental retardation accompanied by physical deformities). Health authorities in the U.S. and Europe have agreed upon a Reference Daily Intake (RDI), formerly called the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA), for iodine designed to prevent these disorders, which the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates afflicts 30 percent of the world’s population. The RDI for iodine, first proposed in 1980, is 100–150 µg/day. Organizations advocating this amount include the American Medical Association, National Institutes of Health’s National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, WHO Expert Committee, and the European Union International Programme on Chemical Safety. These health authorities consider an RDI of 100–150 µg/day of iodine sufficient to meet the requirements of nearly all (97–98%) healthy individuals.
This consensus on iodine intake flies in the face of evidence justifying a higher amount. This evidence includes animal studies, in vitro studies on human cancer cell lines, clinical trials of iodine for fibrocystic breast disease, and epidemiological data. An intake of 150 µg/day of iodine will prevent goiters and the other recognized iodine deficiency disorders, but not breast disease. Prevention of breast disease requires higher doses of iodine. Indeed, a reasonable hypothesis is that, like goiters and cretinism, fibrocystic disease of the breast and breast cancer are iodine deficiency disorders (also uterine fibroids).
What Albert Guérard writes about new truths applies especially to iodine: "When you seek a new path to truth, you must expect to find it blocked by expert opinion." The reigning truth on iodine is that the thyroid gland is the only organ in the body that requires this micronutrient, and a daily intake considerably more than what the thyroid gland needs is potentially harmful. The new truth is that the rest of the body also needs iodine, in milligram, not microgram amounts. Tell that to a thyroidologist and her response will call to mind this admonition on new truths.
These are the four most common formulations of inorganic (nonradioactive) iodine, as iodide (I-), and with or without molecular iodine (I2): Potassium iodide (KI) tablets, in doses ranging from 0.23 to 130 mg; super saturated potassium iodide (SSKI), 19–50 mg of iodide per drop; Lugol’s solution, 6.3 mg of molecular iodine/iodide per drop; and Iodoral, each tablet containing 12.5 mg iodine/iodide. Both Lugol’s solution and Ioderal are one-third molecular iodine (5%) and two-thirds potassium iodide (10%). Studies done to date indicate that the best iodine supplement is one that includes molecular iodine (I2), which breast tissue prefers.
Iodine was used for a wide variety of ailments after its discovery in 1811 up until the mid-1900s, when thyroidologists warned that "excess" amounts of iodine might adversely affect thyroid function. It is effective in gram amounts for treating various dermatologic conditions, chronic lung disease, fungal infestations, tertiary syphilis, and even arteriosclerosis. The Nobel laureate Dr. Albert Szent Györgi (1893–1986), the physician who discovered vitamin C, writes: "When I was a medical student, iodine in the form of KI was the universal medicine. Nobody knew what it did, but it did something and did something good. We students used to sum up the situation in this little rhyme:
If ye don’t know where, what, and whyPrescribe ye then K and I"
The standard dose of potassium iodide given was 1 gram, which contains 770 mg of iodine.
Regarding KI and other iodine salts (like sodium iodide), the venerated 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1911, states, "Their pharmacological action is as obscure as their effects in certain diseased conditions are consistently brilliant. Our ignorance of their mode of action is cloaked by the term deobstruent, which implies that they possess the power of driving out impurities from the blood and tissues. Most notably is this the case with the poisonous products of syphilis. In its tertiary stage – and also earlier – this disease yields in the most rapid and unmistakable fashion to iodides, so much so that the administration of these salts is at present the best means of determining whether, for instance, a cranial tumor be syphilitic or not."
This 19th and early 20th century medicine continues to be used in gram amounts in the 21st century by dermatologists. They treat inflammatory dermatoses, like nodular vasculitis and pyoderma gangrenosum (shown here), with SSKI, beginning with an iodine dose of 900 mg a day, followed by weekly increases up to 6 grams a day as tolerated. Fungal eruptions, like sporotrichosis, are treated initially in gram amounts with great success. These lesions can disappear within two weeks after treatment with iodine.
For many years physicians used potassium iodide in doses starting at 1.5 to 3 gm and up to more than 10 grams a day, on and off, to treat bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with good results and surprisingly few side effects.
There is a case report in the medical literature of a 54-year-old man who, thinking it was iced tea, drank a "home preparation" of SSKI in water that his aunt kept in the refrigerator for her rheumatism. Over a short period of time he consumed 600 ml of this solution, which contained 15 gm of iodide, an amount 100,000 times more than the RDI. He developed swelling of the face, neck, and mouth, had transient cardiac arrhythmias and made an uneventful recovery.
Dr. Guy Anderson, a former professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UCLA, mounted what he calls "The Iodine Project" in 1997 after he read the Ghent paper on iodine for fibrocystic disease. He had his company, Optimox Corp., make Iodoral, the tablet form of Lugol’s solution, and he engaged two family practice physicians, Dr. Jorge Flechas (in 2000) in North Carolina and Dr. David Brownstein (in 2003) in Michigan to carry out clinical studies with it.
The project’s hypothesis is that maintaining whole body sufficiency of iodine requires 12.5 mg a day, an amount similar to what the Japanese consume. The conventional view is that the body contains 25–50 mg of iodine, of which 70–80 percent resides in the thyroid gland. Dr. Abraham concluded that whole body sufficiency exists when a person excretes 90 percent of the iodine ingested. He devised an iodine-loading test where one takes 50 mg and measures the amount excreted in the urine over the next 24 hours. He found that the vast majority of people retain a substantial amount of the 50 mg dose. Many require 50 mg a day for several months before they will excrete 90 percent of it. His studies indicate that, given a sufficient amount, the body will retain much more iodine than originally thought, 1,500 mg, with only 3 percent of that amount held in the thyroid gland.
More than 4,000 patients in this project take iodine in daily doses ranging from 12.5 to 50 mg, and in those with diabetes, up to 100 mg a day. These investigators have found that iodine does indeed reverse fibrocystic disease; their diabetic patients require less insulin; hypothyroid patients, less thyroid medication; symptoms of fibromyalgia resolve, and patients with migraine headaches stop having them. To paraphrase Dr. Szent-Györgi, these investigators aren’t sure how iodine does it, but it does something good.
Thyroid function remains unchanged in 99 percent of patients. Untoward effects of iodine, allergies, swelling of the salivary glands and thyroid, and iodism, occur rarely, in less than 1 percent. Iodine removes the toxic halogens fluoride and bromide from the body. Iodism, an unpleasant brassy taste, runny nose, and acne-like skin lesions, is caused by the bromide that iodine extracts from the tissues. Symptoms subside on a lesser dose of iodine.
As these physicians point out, consuming iodine in milligram doses should, of course, be coupled with a complete nutritional program that includes adequate amounts of selenium, magnesium, and Omega-3 fatty acids. Done this way, an iodine intake 100 times the reference daily intake is "the simplest, safest, most effective and least expensive way to help solve the health care crisis crippling our nation," as the leader of The Iodine Project, Dr. Abraham, puts it.
People who take iodine in these amounts report that they have a greater sense of well-being, increased energy, and a lifting of brain fog. They feel warmer in cold environments, need somewhat less sleep, improved skin complexion, and have more regular bowel movements. These purported health benefits need to be studied more thoroughly, as do those with regard to fibrocystic breast disease and cancer.
Meanwhile, perhaps we should emulate the Japanese and substantially increase our iodine intake, if not with seaweed, then with two drops of Lugol’s Solution (or one Iodoral tablet) a day.
Recommended Reading:
Miller DW. Iodine in Health and Civil Defense. Presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness in Portland, Oregon, August 6, 2006. The text for this talk, with 68 references, can be found here, and the PowerPoint slides I used for it, here.
Abraham GE. The safe and effective implementation of orthoiodosupplementation in medical practice. The Original Internist 2004;11:17–36. Available online here. This is a good introduction to The Iodine Project. His other research studies are online here.
Flechas, JD. Orthoiodosupplementation in a primary care practice.The Original Internist 2005;12(2):89–96. Available online here.
Brownstein D. Clinical experience with inorganic, non-radioactive iodine/iodide. The Original Internist 2005;12(3):105–108. Available online here.
Derry D. Breast cancer and iodine: How to prevent and how to survive breast cancer. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing; 2002. The book is a bit disorganized, has references at the end of each chapter not cited in the text, and no index; but it is an eye-opener nonetheless.
Brownstein D. Iodine: why you need it why you can’t live without it. West Bloomfield, Michigan: Medical Alternatives Press; 2004. Well-written and referenced, with case histories.
Low DE, Ghent WR, Hill LD. Diatomic iodine treatment for fibrocystic disease: special report of efficacy and safety results. [Submitted to the FDA] 1995:1–38. Available online here. This study makes a strong case for iodine as the preferred treatment for fibrocystic disease.
August 14, 2006
Donald Miller (send him mail) is a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a member of Doctors for Disaster Preparednessand writes articles on a variety of subjects for LewRockwell.com.His web site is http://www.donaldmiller.com/
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Fluoride poisoning of horses

2006-07-09T10:05:00.000+09:30

The Hastings Safe Water Association

43 Willow Crescent PORT MACQUARIE 2444
Phone 02 6583 9622 – 0417 279 602

9/7/06
Dear Editor,
The Hastings Safe Water Association has passed on to Veterinary Surgeries and Councillors in the Hastings information concerning Fluoride poisoning of horses who drank artificially fluoridated drinking water, provided to us by the Australian Fluoridation News.

The literature on fluorosis in cattle is extensive but information about fluorosis in horses is almost non-existent. A recent study from the US should have horse owners alarmed. Although this information is now published, findings are not being released by the department of Agriculture.

The study by Professor Lennart P. Krook (Professor of Pathology, Emeritus Fellow, American College of Nutritional Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Biochemical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca NY USA) found in summary that: -
“Quarter horses consuming artificially fluoridated water (up to 1.3 ppm F) for extended periods of time developed classical symptoms of chronic fluoride intoxication including Dental Fluorosis, crooked legs, hypertosis (overgrowth of bone) and enostosis (a morbid bony growth developed within the cavity of a bone or on the internal surface of the bone cortex), hoof deformities and microscopic evidence of reduced bone reabsorption. These symptoms began to appear about two years after fluoridation started… and gradually became more severe.”

…” Blood serum thyroxin in a nineteen year old mare was very low and interference with reproduction noted after five years….” “The levels of Fluoride ingestion and the bone Fluoride concentrations of these horses are far below those claimed to cause fluoride intoxication in cattle.”

“After Fluoridation was terminated on March 29, 2005 colic gradually ceased and other significant improvements have occurred.”
http://www.fluorideresearch.org/391/files/3913-10.pdf

Fluoridation of drinking water causes chronic illnesses to develop in humans, and all animals who drink fluoridated water. Will Hastings Council inform us what arrangements they propose to ensure that unfluoridated drinking water will now be provided for those who keep animals in fluoridated areas? Considering their lack of response to similar questions regarding our right to have an unfluoridated drinking water supply their silence will be deafening.
Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay - President of the Hastings Safe water Association
(if you would like a copy of this please provide a postal address.)

Horse damage with Fluoridation

2006-06-26T18:06:00.000+09:30

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Personal Stories: Cathy Justus
"Deadly Remedy: Strange illnesses lead horse breeder to challenge fluoridation of Pagosa's water"
by Cathy Justus (With permission from the author and Pagosa Daily Post, of www.pagosa.com. Article posted in Pagosa Daily Post on 5/23/05.)Click here to read the latest update on this aricle
Editor's note: Horse breeder Cathy Justus recently led a successful campaign to stop the fluoridation of the Pagosa Springs water supply. Though many experts assert that water fluoridation is a harmless practice which is beneficial to a community's dental health, Cathy's experiences and research pointed to a different conclusion.
In the late 1970s Wayne and I bought property and moved to Pagosa Springs from a non-fluoridated area in southern California. We had been raising show-quality quarter horses for years and wanted to continue that endeavor in Pagosa. Being very aware of the effect of clean air and water, I felt that this was a perfect place to be, especially since Pagosa is at the foot of the Continental Divide and at the headwaters of the clean fresh water coming from the mountains.
Chronic colics and other serious ailments
We had never had problems with our horses being sick and crippled before. Their good health stopped when fluoridation started. The sickness started with chronic colics. We averaged one or two colics a month. It could be any of our horses at any time. The colics continued until the winter of 2003/04. (I will elaborate on that later.)

The colt's head less than half normal length
A few years later we took a mare to a different breeding farm. She was bred, brought home during gestation and taken back a few weeks before delivery. One night I received a phone call from the ranch owner. She said my mare was in labor and couldn't physically deliver the foal. The attending vet said he had palpated her and couldn't distinguish a normal foal. He gave three options: first, cut the baby up inside of her; or second, do a caesarian section (both of which would require massive amounts of time and drugs). She would be crippled by the drugs and would never be able to conceive again. Or third, put her down, and save her from a lifetime of pain. We opted to put her down. An autopsy was done. The colt's head was less than half the normal length. He had no eyes or nostrils, no neck and no muscles at all...just skin over bones.
It wasn't until last year when I bought the book, The Fluoride Deception, by Christopher Bryson, that I made the tie to fluoride poisoning. It refers to the most expensive U.S. corporate episode in history relating to fluoride in the 1990s (where over $1.3 billion in costs and settlements were paid out). As late as July 2003, the Florida Supreme Court also reinstated a $4 million jury award to the family of a boy born without eyes. These unbelievably strange coincidences kept appearing related to the illnesses our animals were having as I did more studies.
We were losing horses and dogs to some mysterious thing. The problems were so diverse that no one could tell me what was happening to my animals. And no one knew enough about fluoride to point to it being the cause. Being raised to "be independent of the good or bad opinion of others" and to investigate to find my own conclusion, I started researching fluoride fifteen years ago.
I was raised from birth on holistic and alternative medicine and whole foods. I have always had an intense interest in this subject and had known for years that fluoride was poison. It is just slightly less poisonous than arsenic and more poisonous than lead. What’s worse... it’s cumulative.
I knew our water was fluoridated, and that it would be a major undertaking to get fluoridation stopped, so I tried other avenues to see if anything else could be the culprit of our animals’ many problems. Wayne and I drink distilled water, so it wasn't affecting us. To distill enough water for our animals was impossible - horses drink between ten to twelve gallons of water a day. That means they can accumulate far more fluoride in a smaller amount of time than people. As Dr. Krook said, “Horses are like the canaries in the mines. What shows up in them is manifesting in those people who drink fluoridated water too... at a faster pace in horses.
No changes in symptoms
We ordered hay a semi-load at a time to give us a year for testing (from as far away as LaJara, CO, to Bloomfield, NM, and sources in between) with no changes in symptoms. We did the same with grain. All this was done with no change in progression. The illnesses were getting worse. With each generation, the problems were building and presenting earlier.
I have always supplemented with only organic herbs and supplements (which I mix myself so the possibility of unknown additives in the supplements was not an issue). I changed sources of these individual ingredients, modified and deleted them. Still no change in the progression of symptoms.
Six vets were consulted (two of which were at CSU) starting in 2000 for my most precious mare Perfectlydun Bonanza (Baby Doe). She had many, many various symptoms; some of which were reproductive, continuous infections, thyroid problems, Cushings (Equine Metabolic Syndrome), lameness, bone deformity, breathing problems, etc. Even though I mentioned to all of these vets that I thought her problems were caused by the fluoride in the drinking water, all of them poo-poo’d me.
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After bringing her home from CSU in August of 2002 with no diagnosis or cure, I decided that God was telling me something. I was not using what I had been taught and been raised with: holistic healing. It certainly wouldn't hurt. I had tried everything else. We still had found no source for non-fluoridated water, but I felt that treating the fluoride-caused symptoms specifically would be a step forward. The perfect solution of course, was to stop the fluoridated water (what I felt was the source of the problem).
I’d been sending the Pagosa Area Water and Sewer District masses of literature on fluoride's toxicity for years, but my beliefs were only my theory. I had no concrete evidence. What I can prove is that sodium silicofluorides (a toxic byproduct of the phosphate and aluminum industries) was being put into our water. It comes from the industrial scrubbers and is called a "toxic soup" by the industries because it doesn't just contain fluoride, but also lead, arsenic, beryllium, silica and a host of other toxins. This stuff (despite what you have been told by the promoters of fluoride) has never ever had any safety studies done on it. It is considered a highly toxic waste by the EPA, and they must be contacted immediately if it gets spilled on the land, in rivers, lakes or oceans, or gets into our air. But when it is sold to water companies to put it into our drinking water, it suddenly becomes a product that is supposed to be good for us. Isn't that amazing?! Read The Fluoride Deception to find recently declassified, "top secret" government papers that tell exactly how this lie got started and promoted. This book is a page-turner.
Herbal help
After bringing Baby Doe home from CSU, I first had her thyroid checked. It was under-functioning. Next was a major homeopathic cleanse. After years of her having a constant infection (starting with simple ones, proceeding to e-coli, then to a staph infection), it was finally being overcome. Her outward appearance and energy picked up. I also used herbs for cleansing, photonic therapy, acupuncture, acupressure, message and more. I used these same treatments on all our horses. There seemed to be a little improvement, but not enough.
In the spring of 2003, we had this mare palpated again to see if she had improved. The vet said that she still had very little uterine tone and very odd eggs and thought we would never get her in foal again, but he wanted to see all the previous ultrasounds, biopsies and records for comparison. After reviewing what he had found and the previous tests, he said she had improved some and to keep up what I was doing and call him in a year.
Symptoms improve when horses stop drinking city water
The winter of 2003/04 was the first in over 10 that we had snow on the ground all winter. We noticed our outside 100-gallon heated water tank of city water only needed filling every 18 days instead of the usual every day and a half. The horses were eating snow instead of drinking the heated fluoridated water. They knew it was poison. The symptoms in all the horses started leaving. The improvement in Baby Doe was miraculous. She put on weight and started shedding the "Cushings Symptom" hair and shed all winter long. This was the first winter in over 10 years that we didn't have one single colic. The lack of them drinking the city water was the only thing that had changed.
One and a half weeks after all the snow was gone in the spring of 2004 and all the horses had to drink the city water again we had our first colic; 9 1/2 hours worth of cramping stomach and intestinal cramping. We were finally able to find a source of river water the middle of March 2004 and that was the last colic we have had.
On October 1st 2004 Baby Doe was euthanized. The assault of the fluoride on her neurological system was just more than she could handle for too many years. Her last 16 hours of life were horrible. She had no neurological function. A needle could be stuck into her anywhere in her body with no reaction. Of course this created many other physical things to happen in her body. Her breathing was extremely labored, her heart rate had gone up to over 120bpm to try to compensate for other malfunctions. It was awful. The attending vet said the symptoms were so varied that a diagnosis at the time couldn't be reached. An autopsy was suggested and I asked for her to be checked for fluoride poisoning and the comment I got was, "fluoride is supposed to be good for you." I replied, "You too have believed the lie spread for over 50 years." Baby Doe was autopsied for other things, all of which came back negative. There was no lab found that knew how to check for fluoride poisoning.
Source of ailments solved
I was distraught. I was determined to find the answer. Baby Doe was the fifth horse we had lost and we had lost four dogs too, all with mysterious ailments. During the last 15 years I have done an intense study of fluoride and what it can do to the body. I have read both sides of the issue and there is an overwhelming proof, over 60,000 worldwide independent studies, that fluoride was the culprit of our animals’ illnesses. I got on the phone and started calling from coast to coast to find a lab or a fluoride expert who could help me find the truth, one way or the other, of what was killing my animals. After over a week and a half I contacted Dr. Lennart Krook, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomedical Sciences, at Cornell University in New York. He is a world authority on fluoride toxicity in animals. He has spent his career of over 50 years studying fluoride and has written 15 peer reviewed articles published in prestigious journals on this subject. I described the many varied symptoms we had seen through the years and he said they all could be related to fluoride poisoning but he would have to have a bone to check for the fluoride content to give a scientific analysis. I told him the mare had been buried for a week and a half and he said, "Dig her up." I told him I didn't think that I could emotionally do that. He said, "You have to." He said there were literally millions of people and animals being poisoned by fluoride and that any evidence of this was needed. The industries producing this toxic byproduct they put in our water have suppressed this info since fluoridation was started over 50 years ago.
The next morning Wayne got a backhoe, dug Baby Doe up, excised a foreleg and sent it to Cornell. About a month later a 17-page report came back with the final conclusion of "Chronic Fluoride Poisoning." Since then, Dr. Krook has requested color photos of the teeth of our remaining living horses. I told him I had saved baby teeth from all our horses and he requested them too for diagnosis. A 14-page report came back on them and its final conclusion on all our living horses was "Afflicted with chronic fluoride poisoning." Even a 33-month-old filly we bought out of state at 7-months-old and brought here was showing very distinct signs of chronic fluoride poisoning in her only two adult teeth. They were already chipping off and showing dental fluorosis.
Since then, another horse in the county that had thyroid problems, Equine Metabolic Syndrome plus other similar symptoms was put down, and a leg was taken and sent to Cornell. "Chronic fluoride poisoning" was the conclusion on him too. An interesting note is that he had been on the fluoridated Pagosa water for half as long as Baby Doe (11 years vs. 21 years) and had more residual fluoride in his bones. This shows how each individual is susceptible differently to accumulation amounts of fluoride. I think this proves that my cleansing specifically pointed towards the fluoride accumulation was working. Just not soon or fast enough to save Baby Doe from the long-term damage fluoride had caused to her nervous and reproductive systems.
Why the effects?
A question I have received many times over the years is why was it affecting our horses and not others. Most horse owners don’t keep their horses here 365 days a year like we have. Most horses were here for the summer then sent in the fall to winter somewhere else. They had a few months of accumulation and more months to cleanse the fluoride from their bodies. Fluoride will leach out slowly from the body if more is not added every day. Also a lot of the horses are given well water. Yes, there can be natural occurring fluoride in well water, which is bad too but this isn't always the case. And with fluoride working on a systemic level, the enzyme system, the DNA, the DNA repair system and the collagen system, the very core of life, it can create virtually any disease depending on the specific weakness of that individual.
As you can see, that is why we had such varied illness in our animals. That is the reason it is so hard to diagnose fluoride toxicity. How many people do you know that have had a bone taken and checked for fluoride accumulation after death? People and animals die and the reason for death is pointed at the symptom that was manifested by the fluoride rather than the cause which in Baby Doe's case was fluoride accumulation slowly killing her day by day and manifesting mainly in her reproductive and nervous system and thyroid. Dr. Krook said the organs and blood taken from Baby Doe would not have shown a positive amount of fluoride in the body because fluoride can change from hour to hour in soft tissue and blood. Since fluoride has its biggest attraction to calcium (our bones and teeth) and bone cell turnover is the slowest in the body, bone analysis is the only true way to test for fluoride buildup in the body.If anyone would like to talk to me further about this subject, please call (970) 264-4462, or email justusoriginals@pagosa.net.
JUSTUS POISONED HORSES UPDATE: January, 2006
I wanted to write and give you an update on the health improvement of all but one of our horses, since artificial fluoridation stopped in Pagosa Springs at the end of March 2005.
Bonanza’s Q T Bar (Bird) was euthanised in October 2005 after years of pain from crippling skeletal fluorosis. We had expected her to give up years ago but she had such a big heart and strong will to live. She had deformed hooves, bones, ligaments and tendons that were fused together; even her soft tissue was hard in places from fluoride being deposited there. Her ribs were so fused together that she couldn't get enough air to clear her airway or lungs and that is what ultimately took her life. She had extreme difficulty breathing, moving and balancing. She will be missed, along with the others we have lost to fluoride poisoning.But on a good note, all the other living horses that were diagnosed by Dr. Krook at Cornell University as having Chronic Fluoride Poisoning have improved significantly. As you know, since the middle of March 2004, we started getting water from the San Juan River for our horses and in March 2005 water fluoridation was stopped in Pagosa Springs. Since we started giving them river water (without fluoride) they have had no colic at all. That is almost two years now without one episode of colic, after having two to three a month for well over fifteen years while our horses drank the artificially fluoridated water. I think that alone says it all – but I have more good news about their health improvements since they stopped drinking fluoridated water.
I will tell you about each horse, one by one.Winning Gold Bonanza (Win). Born in 1998 to Baby Doe, he has had hard lumps under his skin almost since he was born. All these lumps are softening and dissipating. He has always urinated a lot and he is down to normal urination now. This symptom went along with his thyroid problems which are improving. Win's hips have stuck out far beyond what they should have for years and he would stumble when his back legs would go out from under him. The swelling is gone and I have not seen him stumble for well over six months now. Skips Winning Bonanza (Skipper). Born in 1999 to Baby Doe, he has had skeletal problems since birth, with front legs so terribly crooked I didn't think he would even be able to stand. The vet suggested we wait a few months because he thought they would straighten on their own. They didn't. The vet suggested pinning, stapling, scraping, casting, etc. to straighten them. I decided to try the homeopathic remedy Calcium Fluoride on him since I was sure it was the fluoride in the water that had made his legs crooked. In Homeopathy, "like cures like" so if fluoride was the culprit, homeopathic fluoride would work. We gave him four doses a day of Calc Fluor 3X for three days, 6X for three days and 12 X for three days. At the end of those nine days his legs were straight. It was totally amazing but that is how Homeopathy works when you get the right remedy. Skipper's left hip and stifle started to lock up and got so bad by the time he was two years old that he would take steps of only about six inches on that side and he would never take his left lead. His tendons and ligaments have softened now to the point that his step length is almost normal. In the last month he has started taking his left lead on his own and overall moving much more fluidly. Skipper has also had urinary and prostate problems and seemed to urinate all the time. That is getting much better now. His attitude has also changed for the better.
Impressive N Elegant (Siena) born in 2002, was on the fluoridated water for only eighteen months. We bought her elsewhere and brought her here. She developed weird bumps all over her body after drinking fluoridated water. She was diagnosed by two vets as having immune system dysfunction. These bumps went away when we would take her to circuit horse shows in non fluoridated areas and came back when she drank fluoridated water at home, until we got river water and then Pagosa Springs fluoridation stopped. She has not had a recurrence of these bumps since fluoridation was stopped. She had also developed a chronic cough when drinking fluoridated water, but that is totally gone. She was bred this last May and we are hoping and praying for a healthy and normal foal this spring. She is the first mare that had been on fluoridated water that we have been able to get in foal since 2000, despite trying diligently.Skips Classic Edition (Mister) who was born in 1986, has had a chronic cough for the biggest part of his life and especially when he was worked. This last summer my husband took him on a pack trip up into the San Juan Mountains for four days and he didn't cough once. It was amazing.
Cleansing from fluoride poisoning
All of our horses have had oozing from mostly their coronary bands along the top of their hooves for years. In 2003, when I started giving them alternative treatments, herbs, and homeopathic remedies, they showed signs that their bodies were trying to cleanse naturally of the accumulated fluoride and they all started oozing at lymph node sites also. This oozing has continued through 2004 and 2005, lessening over time. About a month ago, I noticed that all the horses had stopped this oozing.I will continue with the holistic cleansing protocol because I know it will take time to get the years of accumulated fluoride out of their systems. I feel they need the extra help in cleansing fluoride out as quickly as possible, just time and clean water are not enough. From the results I am getting, I know it works. I am totally convinced – the obvious improvement in their health since my horses quit drinking fluoridated water, after years of a continual decline in health during the time they were drinking fluoridated water, is proof positive that the fluoride was poisoning them. I want to thank God for revealing this to me and giving me the knowledge and people with the knowledge to be able to diagnose the problem myself. For over fifteen years our local water department totally ignored my letters and calls to stop fluoridation. I want to thank all the experts I've talked to over the years for their patience with me and to those who directed me to Dr. Krook. I especially want to thank Dr. Krook from Cornell University for his time, knowledge and expertise in diagnosing my horses with chronic fluoride poisoning and accepting the bones I sent for diagnosis. I also want to thank him for not ignoring me and acknowledging my fluoride poisoning suspicions when I called him on the phone out of the blue. He said I was the first to ever do such a thing. It does pay to be bull-headed, not give up and pursue what you believe in your heart to be true. . I feel we are going to see a snowball effect on this subject and the producers of this poison are suddenly going to have a rude awakening. And it is about time. Sincerely, Cathy.

2006-06-19T17:12:00.000+09:30

Please excuse me while I throw up...

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

2006-06-08T18:10:00.000+09:30

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 83, No. 6, 1429-1437, June 2006© 2006 American Society for Nutrition
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Fluoride exposure and bone status in patients with chronic intestinal failure who are receiving home parenteral nutrition1,2,3
Paul H Boulétreau, Muriel Bost, Elisabeth Fontanges, Madeleine Lauverjat, Christel Gutknecht, René Ecochard, Pierre D Delmas and Cécile Chambrier
1 From the Artificial Nutrition Unit (PHB, ML, and CC) and the Departments of Biochemistry (MB) and Rheumatology (EF and PDD), E Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France; the Trace Element Institute for UNESCO, Lyon, France (MB); and the Department of Biostatistics, Hospices Civils, UMR CNRS 5558, Lyon, France (CG and RE)
Background and Objective: Metabolic bone disease is frequent in chronic intestinal failure. Because fluoride has a major effect on bones, the status of both fluoride and bone was studied in long-term home parenteral nutrition (HPN) patients.
Design: We studied 31 adults aged ((image placeholder) ± SD) 56.3 ± 15.1 y, mainly patients with short-bowel syndrome, who had been receiving HPN for >1 y. Bone mineral density (BMD) was measured by absorptiometry, and serum fluoride was measured by using a fluoride-sensitive electrode. All patients ate and drank ad libitum. HPN (3.4 ± 1.2 times/wk) complemented oral nutrition. Potential explicative factors were estimated by using a linear regression model (mixed-effects model).
Results: Of 120 fluoride dosages (2–6/patient), 102 were above the upper normal limit (1.58 µmol/L) at the laboratory. Mean (± SD) daily fluoride supply was 8.03 ± 7.71 mg (US adequate intake: 3.1 mg/d for women and 3.8 for men; tolerable upper normal limit: 10 mg/d); intravenous fluoride varied from 0.06 to 1.45 mg, and oral fluoride varied from 0.09 to 27.8 mg. Serum fluoride concentrations were correlated with creatinine clearance and fluoride supply. BMD was significantly lower in the femoral neck than in the spinal area. After adjustment for sex and the duration of HPN, only the effect of serum fluoride on spinal BMD was significant. Two patients had symptoms of fluorosis, eg, calcaneum fissures, interosseous calcifications, or femoral neck osteoporosis.
Conclusions: In chronic intestinal failure, high intakes of fluoride are frequent because of the beverages ingested to compensate for stool losses. Hyperfluoremia has an effect on bone metabolism and may increase skeletal fragility. The consumption of fluoride-rich beverages for extended periods is therefore not advisable.
Key Words: Fluoride • bone mineral density • fluorosis • home parenteral nutrition • chronic intestinal failure
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2006-06-08T14:03:00.000+09:30

Jason Burton's Death Certificate and statement from his mother. They have no answer to this. How many deaths go unreported as "Fluoride Poisoning" because the doctor didn;t look closely enough for the cause, or if he did he chose not to record this.

Fluoride is harmless, a "Micronutirent" as reported by a NSW health department official !!!

Tell that to Jason Burton's Mother, Father and siblings.

2006-05-30T18:36:00.000+09:30

A good friend passed this along to us

2006-05-27T18:43:00.000+09:30

A good friend passed this along to us…

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.

2006-05-25T10:06:00.000+09:30

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/

2006-05-24T15:09:00.000+09:30

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.

2006-05-24T14:38:00.000+09:30

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!

NSW Fluoridation of Public Waters ACT 1957/1989 implications

2006-05-20T18:35:00.000+09:30

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

Will NSW Government put Fluoride Accident notification system in place?

2006-05-11T11:08:00.000+09:30

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.

Victorian Nationals (Australia) seek referendum on country fluoridation

2006-04-28T16:06:00.000+09:30

The Hastings Safe Water Association

43 Willow Crescent PORT MACQUARIE 2444
Phone 02 6583 9622 – 0417 279 602

27th April 2006

Victorian Nationals seek referendum on country fluoridation.

“The Victorian National party has adopted a new policy that would ensure a referendum before the introduction of fluoride to country Victorian drinking water. Victorian Nationals' water resources spokesman, Peter Walsh, said the state should not be forcing fluoridation on communities that do not want it.” Said Therese Mackay President of the Hastings Safe Water association.

“We commend the Victorian Nationals and hope that their democratic stance on Fluoridation will be taken up by NSW Nationals and indeed Federal Nationals. Said Therese Mackay

Ms Walsh who said his Party's new policy would require a referendum by the Victorian Electoral Commission before fluoride could be introduced said, "The majority of people if they are given the correct information will make a sound logical choice."

“Now in Victoria one political party has finally had the courage to uphold the rights of the people to choose. Hopefully here on the Mid North Coast and in the rest of NSW all the National members will follow suit.” Said Therese Mackay

For Further information contact - Therese Mackay President of the Hastings Safe Water Association

New Fluoride study released in US

2006-03-23T15:12:00.000+10:30

The Hastings Safe Water Association

43 Willow Crescent PORT MACQUARIE 2444
Phone 02 6583 9622 – 0417 279 602

23/3/06
Dear Editor,
What response to newly released (March 22 2006) study “Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards” has there been From the NSW Health Department and Mid North Coast Mayors in favour of Fluoridation?

We here in the Hastings Port Macquarie area have like most Mid North and North Coast areas been successful in stopping the artificial Fluoridation of our drinking water supplies in the past decades because time after time when voting at Council Elections is held on the subject of Fluoridation residents have said a loud “No. But since the last Council Elections there has been action as a block by all local Mayors to deny local people a voice and force Fluoridation upon us.

Yesterday in the US The National Academies on Science, Engineering and Medicine released their large study "Fluoride in Drinking Water - A Scientific Review of EPA'S Standards" sponsored by the Environmental Protection Association.

At the News Conference Professor John Doull Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Toxicology University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City and Chair, Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water said,
“After reviewing the collective evidence on adverse health effects associated with fluoride, our committee concluded unanimously that EPA should lower the maximum contaminant level goal for fluoride. Ongoing exposure to water fluoride levels at 4 mg/L puts children at risk of developing severe enamel fluorosis, which is characterized by discoloration, enamel loss, and pitting of the teeth. This condition occurs during tooth development in children, before the teeth erupt in the mouth. Once it develops, it is a permanent condition.On average, approximately 10 percent of children in communities with water fluoride concentrations at or near 4 mg/L develop severe enamel fluorosis. Previous assessments have considered all cases of enamel fluorosis, including serious ones, to be aesthetically displeasing because of the yellow and brown staining of teeth that occurs, but not adverse to health. However, the majority of the committee concluded that severe cases of enamel loss constitute an adverse health effect because one function of enamel is to protect the teeth and underlying dental tissue. There is some evidence that pitting of tooth enamel could increase the risk of cavities because it allows plaque and bacteria to become trapped in the enamel. The damage to teeth caused by severe enamel fluorosis is a toxic effect that is consistent with prevailing risk assessment definitions of an adverse health effect. However, two of the 12 members of the committee did not agree that enamel defects alone are sufficient to consider severe enamel fluorosis an adverse health effect, as opposed to a cosmetic one. Although these members disagreed over the characterization of severe enamel fluorosis, they concurred with our recommendation that EPA's maximum contaminant level goal should prevent the occurrence of this unwanted condition.Studies indicate that up to 15 percent of children in communities exposed at the secondary guideline level of 2 mg/L have moderate enamel fluorosis, a less severe form of enamel fluorosis that does not involve enamel loss or pitting. Although this moderate condition can also lead to tooth discoloration that may be aesthetically objectionable, there is inadequate data to categorize it as an adverse health effect.In addition to effects on teeth, the committee reviewed new studies of fluoride's effects on bone. Fluoride is readily incorporated and accumulates in the bone. Concerns about fluoride's effects on the musculoskeletal system historically have been and continue to be focused on bone fracture and skeletal fluorosis. Studies with laboratory animals show that fluoride incorporation can weaken bone and increase the risk of fracture. Evidence for this effect in humans was found in several new studies of populations exposed to fluoride at 4 mg/L or higher in drinking water, as well as in clinical studies of fluoride as a therapeutic agent. Overall, there was consensus among the committee that under certain conditions fluoride can weaken bone and increase the risk of fractures. The majority of the committee concluded that a population with lifetime exposure to fluoride in water at concentrations of 4 mg/L or higher is likely to experience more fractures than a group exposed to 1 mg/L. Three of the 12 committee members, however, supported a conclusion that EPA's 4 mg/L standard might not be protective against bone fractures. They said more evidence was needed that bone fractures occur at an appreciable frequency in human populations exposed to fluoride at 4 mg/L before drawing a firm conclusion about the risks at that level.”

But didn’t the Health Department, Doctors and Dentists assure us dummies that Fluoride was “benign”, a “nutrient” and a “mineral”. The outcome of this study should be read in full - it is four hundred plus pages - by local Mayors as a duty of care to the residents.

There is a four-page brief of the study, which makes very interesting reading and if there is any commonsense left in the world at all it should be the death knell for Fluoridation.

This information can be found at http://national-academies.org/. I am sorry for those who do not have access to the net but a visit to the local library and help from the librarian could point you to this article on the library's computer.

All of us need to read this before any more pressure is put upon us from NSW Health, who would not have access to this yet as they should, being too busy conducting flossy polls which tell us what they want us to think.
Yours sincerely Therese Mackay- Hastings Safe Water Association.

Jama says Doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies

2006-03-05T13:29:00.000+10:30

Please take the time to read this as it is important to understand just how deeply entrenched are the interests of big business, and the conflict of interest that has to occur
Finally The Journal of the American Medical Accociation has spoken out against the corruption re Doctors and The Bribes from the Drug Companies which amount to 19 Billion...yes Billion per annum in the US.
Therese Mackay
NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published March 1 2006
JAMA says doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies
The Journal of the American Medical Association is rocking the boat in conventional medicine. An article in JAMA has come up with the suggestion -- aghast! -- that doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies. Most people didn't know that doctors routinely accept bribes (including hundreds of thousands of dollars in "contractor's fees" for signing patients up for drug trials), so this news may come as a bit of a shock to some.
Big Pharma spends nearly $19 billion a year bribing and influencing physicians, by the way. That's billion with a "B." How much money is $19 billion? It's more money than NASA wastes smashing satellites into Mars and exploding space shuttles in Earth's upper atmosphere. It's more money than the entire junk food industry spends hypnotizing obese children into nagging their parents for another box of sugar-bomb breakfast cereal at the quickie mart. Heck, it's more money than the entire United States spends on genuine disease prevention and health education.
In other words, it's a lotta dough. But bribing doctors requires a lot of cash. Doctors have big-dollar appetites. They drive Mercedes Benz, Hummers and Audis. They live in 5,000 square-foot houses with high heating and cooling bills (especially for the outdoor pool). They have expensive habits, expensive travel, and expensive dinner bills (fortunately, drug companies pick up most of the travel and dinner). Let's face it: Doctors have just gotten used to the idea that they're supposed to be treated to a higher level of comfort and prestige than the rest of the population, and if it takes drug money to buy that lifestyle, then bring on the drug reps!
Actually, I'm being facetious. Most doctors hate those pesky drug reps. And the smart ones can't stand Big Pharma, either. The really good doctors will first see if they can get patients to make healthy lifestyle changes on their own, and if they can't, they'll prescribe generic drugs instead of the overpriced brand-name drugs. But really good doctors, sadly, are also really rare. I happen to know a few, but they are the exception, not the rule.
Nevertheless, nearly all doctors -- the good ones, the bad ones and the downright corrupt ones -- take money and gifts from drug companies. Walk into any doctor's office, and you'll be hard pressed to find a single object (mugs, paper pads, pens, etc.) that isn't emblazoned with the logo of a high-profit prescription drug. And those aren't even the bribes, those are just trinkets. But it shows you how completely drug companies have penetrated the offices of most doctors.
The majority of doctors say these gifts don't influence their prescribing behavior, just like the majority of consumers claim television advertising has no influence on their grocery purchases, either. Studies prove otherwise. Studies prove that drug company gifts to doctors are, indeed, not only effective, but quite a bargain for the drug companies. It's sort of like street corner drug dealers handing out crack in order to gain new customers, except that nobody denies crack is actually bad for your health.
Speaking of crack, Pfizer's CEO Hank McKinnell says all this talk about banning the bribing of doctors is unnecessary because Pfizer already has its own "voluntary code of conduct." Well that's a relief. All the bribery in the industry is going to be stopped by the drug dealers themselves!
The doctor bribery problem has reached such a high level of ridiculousness that even JAMA, which usually plays the role of blowing the pro-drug propaganda horn, has noticed there is a problem. In fact, it has suggested a course of action that, if adopted, might actually reign in drug company bribes and restore a bit of honesty to the world of medicine. But that's only if it is widely adopted, and that's about as likely as asking a heroin addict to agree to stop shooting up.
Specifically, the anti-bribery proposal would:

Prohibit doctors from accepting free drug samples.

Exclude doctors who have financial ties to drug companies from serving on the hospital panels that determine which medicines should be on the preferred prescribing lists.

Prohibit drug companies from providing direct financing for educational programming.

Prohibit medical faculty from belonging to pharmaceutical companies' speakers' bureaus or publishing drug company articles as their own.

Require faculty members that receive financial support from pharmaceutical companies to post them on public Internet sites.

Reading this list is fascinating all by itself, because it makes you realize that all these things are going on right now. In other words, doctors who are paid "consulting fees" by drug companies are, in fact, sitting on the hospital panels and voting on which medicines should be on the prescribing lists. Drug companies are funding educational programs (gee, I wonder if the "education" maybe mentions a drug, too?). Conflicts of interest between doctors and drug companies are almost never made public. And the transgressions continue...
Exasperatingly, the industry has been so deeply corrupted by drug company money that the seemingly simple act of banning bribes is going to take a political miracle to accomplish.
Just don't expect Congress to jump in and pass national laws outlawing the bribing of doctors. They're also on the take when it comes to drug money. The financial influence of Big Pharma is now so deep-rooted with lawmakers, medical schools, doctors and the mainstream media that it's going to take the emergence of a massive, deadly scandal to jolt this nation back to its senses.
Vioxx, apparently, did not kill quite enough Americans (only 60,000+ according to Dr. David Graham's estimates), meaning that we will have to see a massive drug-based chemical holocaust, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans, before genuine reform is likely. That chemical holocaust, by the way, is well under way. It's only a matter of time before another Vioxx surfaces. Only this time, the cost in human lives may be far worse than 60,000.
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Scotland rejects Fluoridation

2006-02-28T16:57:00.001+10:30

The Scottish Executive (i.e., Scottish Parliament) has just rejected Water Fluoridation

‘The Scottish Executive (i.e., Scottish Parliament) has just rejected Water Fluoridation
on Health, Safety, Medical Ethics and Human Rights grounds. They are going back to sorting the problem of kids' bad teeth at source - bad diet and totally inadequate dental services. Scottish Health Minister Andy Kerr is expected to unveil new measures to lift Scotland’s poor dental health record which are likely to include "more proactive dentistry for young children, more targeted in deprived communities where tooth decay was worse". (The Scotsman) This is exactly what we have been telling all Councillors, the Health Department and residents. Said Therese Mackay President of the Hastings Safe Water Association

Controversial plans to introduce fluoride into the public water supply in Scotland are set to be abandoned, it emerged today according to the Scotsman (13/11/04). The Scottish Executive is understood to have axed the proposal in favour of better-targeted dental services. It is believed the Executive was also concerned about the implications of allowing individual local authorities to introduce the chemical into water supplies. Critics argued the fluoride plans were an infringement of freedom and were also unsafe. A source within the Executive reportedly confirmed today that fluoride measures had been shelved "for the foreseeable future".

‘Now that the Scots have rejected fluoridation, and the Welsh Assembly is likely to announce a similar decision shortly are the Hastings, Kempsey, Bellingen and Coffs Harbour Councillors really so certain that fluoridation is the right approach to curing bad teeth, if it's not considered appropriate in Scotland? Plenty of food for thought for our Councillors. Food we have already given them but which the majority have ignored. They know exactly what they are doing and will be held accountable individually. Said Therese Mackay

Brian Donohoe, Labour MP for Cunningham South, who spearheaded a rebellion on fluoridation at Westminster, said: "There has been a lot of controversy around the issue of water fluoridation that has never been explained as it should be. The major argument I have is that nothing should be added to our public water supply for medical reasons without the public having the chance to decide if it is right for them." Many Lib Dems viewed it as "mass medication" and an infringement of civil liberties. And official party policy is against adding fluoride to the water supply. Scottish Nationalists, Conservatives, Greens and Scottish Socialists have all spoken out against putting fluoride in the water. Lothians Green MSP Robin Harper has said there were sufficient grounds for concern about the effects of fluoride on health that people should have a choice whether to consume fluoride. (The Scotsman).

Individual Councillors, who mulishly hand over their responsibility to the Health Department, when they are directly responsible to residents, can no longer say that they do not know. Fluoridation is now considered by the Scottish Parliament to be an abuse of human rights. At our recent Rally (6/10/04) we handed Council a comprehensive document outlining the issues of Human Rights Abuse, Litigation possibilities, health concerns amongst others. Councillors can no longer hide behind the flimsy skirts of the Health Department Bureaucrats who will simply move on to other Public Service positions leaving individual Councillors to bear the blame and to wear the costs of litigation. We are appalled by the Hastings’s Council’s written response to our document. We will release their response on Wednesday and residents will then realise the calibre of those we have elected. Their letter is a disgrace. Said Therese Mackay

‘Australia is the most heavily fluoridated country in the world. Few countries still fluoridate. Most have woken up to reality of the toxic nature of Water Fluoridation. We are the only country which is still attempting to have 100% Fluoridation and the push Australia wide is notably authoritarian. We have to wonder why this is, in a worldwide climate where country after country, city after city are giving Water Fluoridation the flick. Keep up the pressure - we're winning. ” President of the Hastings Safe Water Association Therese Mackay said.

Further Information – Therese Mackay Hastings Safe Water Association
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Recycled Sydney water

2006-02-28T16:57:00.000+10:30

I became aware that Sydney Water allows houses in new growth areas like Kellyville to use recycled Sydney water from separate taps out in the yards. While I believe that the theory of this is commendable I wrote to Sydney water asking them did they monitor that recycled water for chemicals, as the water would be used on gardens, lawns and because children and animals would access it.

There is a list of chemicals which Sydney water adds to all water including drinking water. One of these is Hydrosilicio Fluoride or Sodium Silicic Fluoride. For toxicity they are on a par with Lead and Arsenic, and are accumulative. But unlike Chlorine, cannot be boiled out but rather concentrate with evaporation. As for water treatment, only Reverse Osmosis will remove it from the water. This is always very expensive.

I wrote to Sydney Water two months ago and asked did they monitor the recycled water for chemicals such as Fluorides. To date they have not supplied me with anything whatsoever. Either they are just very lazy and do not respond to inquiries, or perhaps they do not monitor for Fluorides on any acceptable level, and at the tap outlets.

Those who use this recycled water on their lawns and gardens, and who visit or have relatives in these areas have a right to know. Prove me wrong, please Sydney Water. Show me that Fluorides are not the “Protected pollutant”.

I urge Sydneysiders to have a look at the following websites and see just how protected fluorides are. Then maybe the reason why Sydney Water is so reticent may be clearer to you.

Parents for Poisoned Children –  http://bruha.com/pfpc
Australian Fluoridation News  www.glenwalker.net
Fluoridation Action Network (USA  – www.fluoridealert.org
National Pure Water Association (UK) www.npwa.freeserve.co.uk

Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay

The Donora Fluoride Fog

2006-02-28T16:56:00.000+10:30

The Donora Fluoride Fog:A Secret History of America's Worst Air Pollution Disaster

This article appears in the Fall 1998 Earth Island Journalby Chris Bryson

The anniversary of the worst recorded industrial air pollution accident in US history - which occurred 50 years ago this October in Donora, Pennsylvania -will go virtually unmarked. The Donora incident, which killed 20 and left hundreds seriously injured and dying, was caused by fluoride emissions from the Donora Zinc Works and steel plants owned by the US Steel Corporation.
In the aftermath of the accident, US Steel conspired with US Public Health Service (PHS) officials to cover up the role fluoride played in the tragedy. This charge comes from Philip Sadtler, a top industrial chemical consultant who conducted his own research at the scene of the disaster.
Fifty years later, Earth Island Journal has learned, vital records of the Donora investigation are missing from PHS archives. Fifty years later, US Steel continues to block access to their records of the Donora disaster, including a crucial air chemical analysis taken on the final night of the tragedy.
The "Donora Death Fog"
Horror visited the US Steel company-town of Donora on Halloween night, 1948, when a temperature inversion descended on the town. Fumes from US Steel's smelting plants blanketed the town for four days, and crept murderously into the citizens' homes. If the smog had lasted another evening "the casualty list would have been 1,000 instead of 20," said local doctor William Rongaus at the time. Later investigations by Rongaus and others indicated that one-third of the town's 14,000 residents were affected by the smog. Hundreds of residents were evacuated or hospitalized. A decade later, Donora's mortality rate remained significantly higher than neighboring areas.
The "Donora Death Fog", as it became known, spawned numerous angry lawsuits and the first calls for national legislation to protect the public from industrial air pollution.
A PHS report released in 1949 reported that "no single substance" was responsible for the Donora deaths and laid major blame for the tragedy on the temperature inversion. But according to industry consultant Philip Sadtler, in an interview taped shortly before his 1996 death, that report was a whitewash. "It was murder," said Sadtler about Donora. "The directors of US Steel should have gone to jail for killing people." Sadtler charged that the PHS report helped US Steel escape liability for the deaths and spared a host of fluoride- emitting industries the expense of having to control their toxic emissions. (A class-action lawsuit by Donora victims families was later settled out of court.)
In 1948, Sadtler was perhaps the nation's leading expert on fluorine pollution. He had gathered evidence for plaintiffs across the country, including an investigation of the Manhattan Project and the DuPont company's fluoride pollution of New Jersey farmland during World War II [see "Fluoride and the A-Bomb", 1997-98 EIJ].
For giant fluoride emitters such as US Steel and the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), the cost of a national fluoride clean-up "would certainly have been in the billions," said Sadtler. So concealing the true cause of the Donora accident was vital. "It would have complicated things enormously for them if the public had been alerted to [the dangers of] fluoride."
A 50-Year Cover-up
US industry was well-placed to orchestrate a whitewash of the Donora investigation. The PHS was then a part of the Federal Security Agency. The FSA, in turn, was headed by Oscar R. Ewing, a former top lawyer for Alcoa. Neither his old industry connections, nor the fact that Alcoa had been facing lawsuits around the country for its wartime airborne fluoride pollution was mentioned in Ewing's introduction to the official report on Donora.
Sadtler remembers seeing a PHS van in Donora conducting air testing after the disaster. "I looked in and the chemist said, 'Phil, come on in.' Very friendly. He says, 'I know you are right, but I am not allowed to say so.' He must have been influenced by US Steel."
Sadtler blamed fluoride for the Donora disaster in an account published in the December 13, 1948 issue of Chemical and Engineering News. He reported fluorine blood levels of dead and hospitalized citizens to be 12 to 25 times above normal, with "primary symptoms of acute fluorine poisoning, dyspnea (distressed breathing similar to asthma) ... found in hundreds of cases." He recommended that, "Changes should be made in suspect processes to prevent emission of fluorine-containing fumes."
Industry moved quickly to silence Sadtler, who had been a contributor to Chemical and Engineering News for many years. (C&EN is published by the American Chemical Society.) "I had a call from the editor that I was not to send them any more [articles]," Sadtler said. The editor told Sadtler that the head of the Alcoa and the US Steel-funded Mellon Institute, Dr. [first name] Weidline (who also had served as a director of the American Chemical Society) "went to Washington and told [the magazine's editors] that they were not to publish any more of what I wrote," Sadtler said.
Looking Back on Donora
Today, 50 years later, researchers examining the Donora disaster face two troubling obstacle: (1) vital records are missing from the PHS archives and (2) US Steel's records are closed to reporters, researchers and investigators. In her 1994 doctoral dissertation ("The Death-Dealing Smog Over Donora, Pennsylvania: Industrial Air Pollution, Public Health Policy and the Politics of Expertise, 1948-1949"), Lynne Page Snyder of the University of Pennsylvania, described the response to the disaster.
The following excerpts were published in the Spring 1994 issue of the Environmental History Review.
"Pollution from the Donora Zinc Works smelting operation and other sources containing sulfur, carbon monoxide and heavy metal dusts, was trapped by weather conditions in the narrow river valley in and around Donora and neighboring Webster.
"Air pollution problems were recognized from the facility as early as 1918, when the plant owner paid off the legal claims for causing pollution that affected the health of nearby residents.
"In the 1920s, residents and farmers in Webster took legal action again against the company for loss of crops and livestock. Regular sampling of the air was begun in 1926 and stopped in 1935."
From local accounts of the time, Snyder provided this description of the 1948 disaster. "By Friday evening (October 2), local residents were crowding into nearby hospitals and dozens of calls were made to the area's eight physicians. While Fire Department volunteers administered oxygen to those unable to breathe, Board of Health member Dr. William Rongaus led an ambulance by foot through darkened streets to ferry the dead and dying to hospitals or on to a temporary morgue.
"On Rongaus' advice, those with chronic heart or respiratory ailments began to leave town late Friday evening, but before noon on Saturday, 11 people died. "Conditions had not improved by Saturday night, and with roads congested by smog and traffic, evacuation became impossible. The company operating the Donora Zinc Works finally ordered the plant shut down at 6 a.m. Sunday morning. By mid-day Sunday, rain had dispersed the smog.
"Pittsburgh itself escaped the episode primarily because it had just begun to enforce a smoke control ordinance and was cutting back on the use of bituminous coal as a fuel source. The Donora Smog gained national attention when Walter Winchell broadcast news of the disaster on his national radio show.
"The Pennsylvania Department of Health, United Steelworkers, Donora's Borough Council and the US Public Health Service all participated in the investigation of the air pollution incident. The investigation was the first time there was an organized effort to document the health impacts of air pollution in the United States. Commenting on the studies of the incident, the Monessen Daily Independent wrote that damage from air pollution from the Zinc Works was 'something no scientific investigation is necessary to prove. All you need is a pair of reasonably good eyes.'
"Before the Donora smog, neither manufacturers nor public health professionals considered air pollution an urgent issue. At the annual meeting of the Smoke Prevention Association in May 1949, a leading industrial physician and consultant to insurance companies dismissed air pollution as a threat, except 'on rare occasions [when] Mother Nature has played us false.''
"The studies of the Donora Smog did not fix blame and could not document levels of pollution beyond workplace limits set at the time. The Public Health Service recommended a warning system tied to weather forecasts and an air sampling system be installed to avoid future incidents. The lessons learned at Donora resulted in the passage of the 1955 Clean Air Act and began modern air pollution control efforts in the Commonwealth.
Snyder learned that US Steel had conducted an air analysis on the final night of the smog. But despite her numerous requests for the Donora records, Snyder recalls, US Steel officials finally informed her that they didn't "have anything for me." Equally frustrating to Snyder was the missing PHS records. At the time, Donora was the largest environmental investigation the government agency ever had mounted. "The kinds of papers I would expect to find are the correspondence files, the original and carbon copies of responses sent out, typed-up site visits, typed-up telephone conversations, maps, rough drafts of reports, photos," Snyder explained. But all these records have vanished.
"You have to suspect the worst. Not only of US Steel, but of the Public Health Service," Snyder says. Now herself a PHS historian, she concludes of the Donora records, "Someone may have decided they were too hot to handle and got rid of them. I'm open to that prospect."
Transcripts of Philip Sadtler's historic full interview are available from Earth Island Journal.
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Chris Bryson is a New York-based investigative reporter and co-author with Joel Griffiths of Fluoride and the A-Bomb (Winter 97-98 EIJ).This report was compiled with research assistance by Ellie Rudolph
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Death in Donora
I have felt the fog in my throat -- The misty hand of Death caress my face;I have wrestled with a frightful foeWho strangled me with wisps of gray fog-lace.Now in my eyes since I have died.The bleak, bare hills rise in stupid mightWith scars of its slavery imbedded deep;And the people still live -- still live -- in the poisonous night.
Folklorist Dan G. Hoffman reported collecting the ballad "Death in Donora" from area resident John P. Clark
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Sidebar: Fluoride and the Mohawks
Cows crawled around the pasture on their bellies, inching along like giant snails. So crippled by bone disease they could not stand up, this was the only way they could graze. Some died kneeling, after giving birth to stunted calves. Others kept on crawling until, no longer able to chew because their teeth had crumbled down to the nerves, they began to starve.
These were the cattle of the Mohawk Indians on the New York-Canadian St. Regis Reservation during the period 1960-75, when fluoride pollution from neighboring aluminum plants devastated the herd and the Mohawks' way of life. Crops and trees withered, birds and bees fled from this remnant of land the Mohawk still call Akwesasne, "the land where the partridge drums."
Today, nets cast into the St. Lawrence River by Mohawk fishers bring up ulcerated fish with spinal deformities. Mohawk children, too, have shown signs of damage to bones and teeth.
In 1980, the Mohawks filed a $150 million lawsuit for damage to themselves and their property against the companies responsible for the pollution: the Reynolds Metals Co. and the Aluminum Co. of America. But five years of legal costs bankrupted the tribe and they settled for $650,000 in damages to their cows. The court left the door open for a future Mohawk suit for damage to their own health. After all, commented human rights lawyer Robert Pritchard, "What judge wants to go down in history as being the judge who approved the annihilation of the Indians by fluoride emissions?" -- Joel Griffiths
The lessons learned at Donora resulted in the passage of the 1955 Clean Air Act America's worst air pollution disaster may have been caused by fluoride emissions: 50 years later, vital records are still missing.

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Fluoride and Treated timbers

2006-02-28T16:54:00.000+10:30

The Hastings Safe Water Association are shocked by the inconsistent claims of the NSW Health Department, concerning their response to CCA (Copper, Chrome and Arsenic) Treated Timbers. What will it take to make them accountable?
In December 2003 Sean Nicholls in the Age reported that “Australia's chemical regulator has proposed banning the use of arsenic-treated timber in outdoor play equipment, decking and furniture, saying frequent exposure to it may put people at "undue risk”. The regulator will also consider calling for existing structures made of treated pine and other arsenic-laced materials to be removed from thousands of backyards, schools and children's playgrounds across Australia. A United States study this year (2003) found frequent exposure to CCA-treated play equipment greatly increased a child's risk of developing bladder and lung cancer, prompting the Australian review.” http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/13/22/1071941669851.html
The EPA says that “when burnt, CCA-treated timber produces an ash with residual arsenic, chromium and copper. Arsenic is the most toxic of these three chemicals. Children and animals should be excluded from land where CCA ash is present. Young children, especially those under 5 years, are at high risk from personal contact and ingestion. Animal deaths from ingesting ash have previously been reported on farms in the USA and UK. As long-term arsenic ingestion (not giving immediate symptoms) may have health implications (e.g. over time, it is one cause of skin cancer), people need to exercise caution to minimise their cumulative exposure.”
What is the NSW Health Department’s advice on CCA Treated Timbers as of 19/3/05 and taken from their own website? They say, “There is no evidence of adverse human health effects associated with normal product use. There are no reports of adverse health effects in children using playground equipment constructed from CCA treated timber. There is no need for existing CCA timber structures in good condition to be removed on the basis of concerns about toxicity. If parents are concerned about children contacting CCA treated wood surfaces, maintaining a coating of oil-based polyurethane or paint will reduce any potential for exposure.”
Yet they have just said there are no adverse effects. Then they say, “It is also generally good hygienic practice: to wash children's hands after playing outside, particularly before eating; to not place food directly on outdoor surfaces. “ So just wash your hands and it’ll all go away kiddies, incredible. How likely are children to put food on a picnic table, or a swing seat? The Health Department’s logic beggars belief. www.health.nsw.gov.au/living/cca-treatedtimber.html
We are aware as is the NSW Health Department that all forms of fluoride added to water contain varying levels of arsenic. Yet the NSW Health Department says it is completely safe to put Fluorides containing arsenic, which the EPA says is cumulative, into our drinking water.
The NSW Health Department’s ignorance is inexcusable. Will they accept responsibility when our children pay the price of this and the many other mistakes they have made and are still making, in full knowledge of the consequences?
Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay.
President of the Hastings Safe Water Association

No one takes responsibility

2006-02-28T16:52:00.000+10:30

The Hastings Safe Water Association

15/7/05

Dear Editor,
When it comes to the issue of artificial Fluoridation, it appears that all levels of Government, follow the practice of never answering questions from Taxpayers, but play the very cynical game of referring on to others. No one takes responsibility.

When we asked Hastings Council a list of questions which concerned the safety and health aspects of Artificial Fluoridation, we were sent a letter after quite some time, telling us to contact Mr John Irving from NSW Health. It was Council’s responsibility to adequately research and answer our concerns, not John Irving. He does not work for Council does he?

We then wrote to our State MP Mr Rob Oakeshott a list of questions on Artificial Fluoridation in February 2005. He did not answer by letter but told us he would get in touch with… guess who? Yes, Mr John Irving from NSW Health. He said that he would have our answers within two weeks. Well Mr Oakeshott we are still waiting for your letter to arrive answering all our questions, courtesy of Mr John Irving.

Bad enough that Government bodies act like this. We have grown to expect this offhand treatment of real concerns. But it seems now that even Community Groups like the CWA are doing exactly the same. A friend of ours Mr Glen Walker the long time Chairman of the Freedom from Fluoridation Federation of Australia wrote to the CWA of NSW with some questions regarding their stance in supporting Fluoridation.

Their written answer, which I possess reads like a carbon copy of flimflam previously written by, Mr John Irving from NSW Health. And to top it off they finish their reply with, “If you require any further information please contact John Irving, NSW Health,…”

Seems like this John Irving must be a mighty clever bloke. Looks like he’s the only one in NSW who has all the answers to the introduction of the highly toxic and accumulative, industrial grade Hydrofluosilicic Acid, or Sodium Silico Fluoride, which he is promoting for our drinking water. Such is his knowledge on these chemicals that he tells all who will listen that Fluoridation is only natural.” That it is one hundred percent safe, and that Fluorosis is not the first sign of Fluoride toxicity, but is in fact a “sign that the teeth are protected from decay.”

Add to the above shocking and irresponsible claims, this same John Irving claimed in the Tenterfield Star that Fluoride was a “Micro Nutrient”. Scientifically a ridiculous statement. He was finally forced to apologise and covered himself by saying it was a “Typographical error” That’s some error to make and any professional typist would

query how this actually happened. But there it is. This same John Irving recently claimed, “Up to 10 times more children have their teeth removed in Tenterfield than in Armidale, which has a fluoridated water supply.”

Well we’d really like to see the double blind scientific research that proves that. No doubt like all the other real concerns the community will be waiting till hell freezes over before that happens as well.

If in doubt Mayor Drew, Mr Rob Oakeshott, trusted Community Groups, Doctors, dentists, you can easily abrogate all responsibility for answering concerns on artificial Fluoridation and tell us to contact that great scientist, Mr John Irving from NSW Health.

If we follow the example of our “leaders” no one need never take any responsibility at all about anything. We can all be happy, stupid little Vegemites, believing black is white and that putting one of the most toxic, reactive and environmentally disastrous chemicals into our drinking water is acceptable in 2005.
Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay
President of the Hastings Safe Water Association

Fluoridation Osteosarcoma cover up

2006-02-18T13:37:00.000+10:30

Now if you’d like click on this to see recent controversy… some are beginning to think that this will be the next “Asbestosis” Transcript is below if unable to view.
Video of the newscast
VIDEO/TRANSCRIPT: Is a Harvard professor hiding a link between fluoride and cancer? - FOX25 News (Boston MA), February 14, 2006
Background:

EPA unions call for moratorium on fluoride in drinking water - Associated Press, August 31, 2005

Father of son who died from osteosarcoma speaks out - CBS4 Boston, December 2, 2005

Fluoridation, Cancer: Did Researchers Ask The Right Questions? - Wall Street Journal, July 22, 2005

Did Harvard study downplay risk of fluoride? - The Associated Press, July 13, 2005

Professor at Harvard is being investigated - Washington Post, July 13, 2005

Dental School Begins Investigation of Prof - Harvard Crimson, July 1, 2005

Harvard Fluoride Findings Misrepresented? - Environmental Working Group, June 28, 2005

See also:

Fox 25 NewsBoston, Massachusetts
February 14, 2006
Harvard Professor: Hiding a Link?
FOX ANCHOR 1: Fluoride in water is supposed to fight tooth decay but could it also cause cancer? It's a controversial question.
FOX ANCHOR 2: Now Harvard University is actually caught up in the debate with serious allegations that an ivy league professor may be covering up the truth. Fox Undercover's Mike Beaudet is investigating the possible link between fluoride and cancer.
REPORTER: Questions about the safety of fluoride in drinking water are not new, but now the debate has shifted to Harvard University where a professor and his doctoral student are at odds over research - research that could show a link between fluoride in drinking water and bone cancer in boys. The professor doesn't think there's a connection but his opinion is under scrutiny since he's also a paid consultant for the toothpaste industry.
REPORTER: Dr. Chester Douglass, a Harvard University big shot - he's chairman of the department of Oral Health Policy and Epidimiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and he's at the center of a fluoride debate: the question of whether fluoride in drinking water can cause cancer. Specifically, osteosarcoma in boys.
[Scene of Douglass walking to his car with envelope in his hand.]
REPORTER: Hi Dr. Douglass, Mike Beaudet with Fox 25. We wanted to talk to you about the fluoride controversy.
DOUGLASS: I just was talking to the lawyers about the Freedom of Information, so we're going to give all our studies to them.
REPORTER: Dr. Douglass spoke publicly about the controversy for the first time to Fox Undercover. Is there a cover-up here?
DOUGLASS: This report [showing envelope] from Harvard Medical School will answer that question.
REPORTER: The dispute erupted last year when the Washington-based Environmental Working Group raised serious allegations, accusing Dr. Douglass of possibly covering up the link between fluoridated water and cancer.
KEN COOK: The question is very simple. Did he represent the research correctly or did he not.
REPORTER: Ken Cook is Environmental Working Group's president. He points to a thesis done by one of Dr. Douglass' own students. Dr. Elise Bassin found " ...for males less than 20 years old, fluoride level in drinking water during growth is associated with an increased risk of osteosarcoma..." But according to Cook, Dr. Douglass dismissed any link when he presented this report to the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.
COOK: Dr. Bassin's study found some very compelling evidence that there's a risk of bone cancer from fluoridation in water. And the presentation of her research suggested the opposite - that there was no evidence.
REPORTER: The Environmental Working Group has raised concerns about Dr. Douglass's close ties to toothpaste giant Colgate, pointing to his job as Editor-in-Chief of the Colgate Oral Care Report. Fox Undercover has learned Dr. Douglass has also worked as a consultant for Colgate for the last ten years. The company has paid him tens of thousands of dollars.
REPORTER: Do you suspect that Dr. Douglass is trying to protect the toothpaste industry.
COOK: Obviously, if he's got a financial interest working at least in part for a company that is making fluoridated toothpaste, one would be concerned, one would be aware of that potential conflict of interest.
REPORTER: Dr. Douglass insists that he's done nothing wrong. "You've got to admit, working for Colgate, it smells a little fishy."
DOUGLASS: I don't, I don't think so. I looked at, I looked at the 200 articles that we've written for them, only 12, only about 11 or 12 of them were on fluoride.
REPORTER: You wouldn't cover up something because you have a financial interest in Colgate?
DOUGLASS: No. There was never a chance to cover up anything. This report will speak directly to the issue of whether there's any evidence of trying to cover something up.
REPORTER: That report is from Harvard Medical School which is investigating the controversy. Dr. Douglass says the report is still in draft form and would not show it to us.
As for Dr. Bassin's thesis which showed a link between fluoridated water and cancer in boys.
DOUGLASS: She did a good job. She had a good group of people advising her and it's a nice analysis. There's nothing wrong with that analysis. The question is, it's a subgroup. Is it true when you look at the whole study? That's the question.
REPORTER: Not for the Environmental Working Group which says the subgroup of young men should be looked at closely since they're more likely to develop this type of cancer.
REPORTER: So why weren't Dr. Bassin's findings included in that Final Report from Dr. Douglass to the government?
DOUGLASS: They got a final report. The truth is, it wasn't the final report. I mean, if you want to get your facts correct, that wasn't the real final report. It was a draft.
REPORTER: Do you think there is a link between fluoride and bone cancer?
DOUGLASS: In the whole study, my best guess is I don't think we're going to see an association.
TONY VALLENTINE: It seems like somebody was trying to cover up or alter the findings or keep it quiet.
REPORTER: Tony Vallentine is watching the controversy closely. It's personal. His son Seth died 20 years ago after a painful battle with osteosarcoma.
VALLENTINE: This is a picture of Seth and his younger brother Zachary just before we found out that he had the bone cancer. He was as healthy as any normal American kid.
REPORTER: Seth grew up in Dedham, 1 of 137 communities in Massachusetts that adds fluoride to the water. Vallentine says he wants to know more about any connection between fluoridated water and cancer.
What do you think about this possible link?
VALLENTINE: When I first heard that I was, I was kind of shocked because I knew that we used the Dedham water and I knew there was fluoride in it.
REPORTER: Vallentine says that even the suggestion of a link is disturbing.
VALLENTINE: I don't think one kid's life is worth having a mouth full of pearly white teeth.
REPORTER: Dr. Bassin declined to be interviewed, but she's standing by her work and tells FOX Undercover a paper based on her thesis will soon be published in the journal Cancer Causes and Control.
Dr. Douglass says his full study on the possible link between fluoridated water and cancer should come out later this year. A Harvard spokesman tells us its investigation is ongoing, but added the University does not believe there is any conflict with Dr. Douglass working for Colgate. This as the Federal Government begins its own investigation.
I'm Mike Beaudet for FOX Undercover
www.fox25.com

The Health Beer of t

2006-02-11T08:34:00.000+10:30

The Health Beer of the Nation.

(Fluoride Free Beer that is.)

The Presidents of Cascade Brewery (Tasmania); Tooheys Brewery (New South Wales); XXXX Brewery (Queensland), and Carlton United Brewery (Victoria), were at an international beer conference.
They decide to all go to lunch together and the waitress asks what they wanted to drink.

The president of Tooheys says without hesitation "I'll have a Tooheys New thanks, brewed in the Premier State".

The president of Cascade smiles and says "I'll have a Cascade Draught thanks, brewed in the Island State".The President of Carlton says, "I'll have a Crown Larger thanks,
the best from the Garden State"

The President of XXXX says, "I'll have the only beer that is not polluted with the poison, hydrofluorosilicic Acid, traces of lead, arsenic and mercury, thanks".

The others look at him like he has sprouted a new head. He just shrugs and says,
"Make mine a XXXX mate, - The only Australian beer that does not contain fluoride".

The "THINK BEFORE YOU DRINK" Campaign.

XXXX Beer is FourX Qld beer for those outside Australia

Feel free to photocopy and please pass on to those who love a good clean beer.

NYSCOF Dentists Are Fluoride misinformed

2006-02-02T12:38:00.000+10:30

NYSCOF: Dentists Are Fluoride MisinformedWednesday February 1, 8:30 am ET
NEW YORK, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Bottled water does NOT contribute to tooth decay despite dentists scientifically unverifiable cautions disseminated through the media. Studies actually show the opposite. America's children are fluoride-overdosed; it's ruining their teeth and researchers advise cutting back, reveals the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF).
The Centers for Disease Control reports from 1/3 to 1/2 of U.S. schoolchildren sport dental fluorosis(1) -- white-spotted, discolored and/or sometimes pitted teeth, caused by fluoride over-ingestion.
The Academy of General Dentistry advises against fluoridated water for infant formula or food preparation because many studies show this ups children's fluorosis risk.(2)
The U.S. Surgeon General reports that excessive fluoride increases susceptibility to cavities.(3)
To avoid crippling skeletal fluorosis, the Environmental Protection Agency sets 4 parts per million (ppm) or 4 milligrams per quart of water as fluoride's maximum contaminant level.(4)
The Iowa Fluoride Study's principal investigator, Steven Levy, found that some babies exceed that level and ingest 6 milligrams daily. Furthermore, Levy found 90% of 3-month-olds consumed over their recommended fluoride levels.(5)
Levy et al. report, "There is no specific nutritional requirement for fluoride ... given the increased prevalence of fluorosis, it may be necessary to revise downwards the adequate intake levels of fluoride."
    Levy also found:

    -- 77% of soft drinks had fluoride levels greater than 0.60 ppm
    -- two ounces of baby chicken food provides baby's maximum dose
    -- foods high in fluoride -- teas, dry infant cereals, dried chicken, and
       seafood
    -- grape juice, especially white, contains very high fluoride levels
    -- 42% of juice and juice drinks tested revealed unlabeled fluoride levels
       greater than 0.60 ppm
    -- cereals processed in fluoridated areas contain from 3.8 to 6.3 ppm
       fluoride
The USDA provides a database of fluoride contents of food http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/Fluoride/Fluoride.html
Reports that bottled-water drinkers risk more cavities are unsubstantiated. The Wall Street Journal reported, "Little research has been done on the use of bottled water and risk of tooth decay, dental experts concede.(6)" UPI wrote: "(P)ublished literature shows little cause for alarm.(7)" Australians drinking fluoridated or non-fluoridated water have similar cavity rates.(8)
"Fluoride ingestion, whether through tap or bottled water, delivers health risks without benefits," says Paul Beeber, NYSCOF President. "I urge Dentists to read the mounting science presenting fluoride's harm and ineffectiveness and not remain fluoride-misinformed."
    References:  http://groups.google.com/group/Fluoridation-News-Releases

    Contact:
    Paul Beeber, 516-433-8882, nyscof@aol.com
    http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof

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Source: NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation

2006-01-31T15:15:00.000+10:30

Fluoride is Harmful to Your Health
(2006-01-30) New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation,
Fluoride can adversely affect every organ of the body - not just bones and teeth, studies show
Research from India shows that fluoride can make people sick; but improved diet and complete fluoride withdrawal can relieve symptoms, according to the May-June, 2002, “Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry.”(a)Fluoride’s harmful health effects, except to teeth, are rarely studied in the U.S. and, in fact, are often discouraged(b). Also never studied, incredibly, are the most widely-used artificial fluoride chemicals Americans drink daily(c) - silicofluorides, derived from fertilizers, purposely added to water supplies, at about 1 milligram fluoride per quart of water, in an attempt to reduce tooth decay.In areas of India, where food and water are naturally fluoride-abundant, severe fluoride toxicity is common and manifests as debilitating and disfiguring diseases(d). Well-known is that fluoride excess irreversibly cripples bones and crumbles teeth (fluorosis).Lesser-known are early fluorosis warning signs, or soft tissue toxicity, whose manifestations and resulting clinical complaints are reversible with a diet adequate in calcium, vitamins C, E, other antioxidants and withdrawal of all fluoride sources (the intervention), report researchers Madhu Bhatnager and Professor (Dr.) A.K. Susheela, the CEO and Director of India’s Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation.Dr. Susheela researches fluoride extensively (http://education.vsnl.com/fluorosis/publication.html). In this study, Susheela and Bhatnager write: “It is now an established fact that fluoride ingestion over a period of time can affect the structure and function of cells, tissues, organs and systems resulting in a variety of clinical manifestations. (For example:)1) aches and pain in the joints, i.e. neck, back, hip, shoulder and knee without visible signs of fluid accumulation2) non-ulcer dyspepsia such as nausea, vomiting, pain in the stomach, bloated feeling or gas formation in the stomach, constipation followed by diarrhea3) polyuria (frequent urination) and polydipsia (excessive thirst)4) muscle weakness, fatigue, anemia with low hemoglobin level5) complaints of repeated abortions/still birth6) complaints of male infertility with abnormality in sperm morphology, oligospermia (spermatozoa deficiency in the semen), azoospermia (spermatozoa absence in the semen) and low testosterone levels.”Susheela and Bhatnager recommend physicians consider fluoride toxicity for the above-listed patient complaints and/or any loss of shine or discoloration in the patient’s front row of teeth, which may be due to dental fluorosis.“Americans are unaware that their arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome or other symptoms may be fluoride-related,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. “This information should be heeded by physicians and members of the medical and scientific communities. Dr. Susheela is a world authority on the health effects of fluoride to the human body,” says Beeber.“Pediatricians need to be educated about fluorosis. Perhaps water fluoridation and indiscriminate promotion of fluoridated dental products in the name of prevention of dental caries (cavities) need to be reviewed,” writes Susheela and Bhatnager To arrive at a definitive fluorosis diagnosis, Susheela and Bhatnager:(Continued with references here:http://groups.google.com/group/Fluoridation-News-Releases/browse_frm/thread/0304189370af1871###New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.PO Box 263Old Bethpage, NY 11804Contact: Paul S. Beeber, President and General Counsel nyscof@aol.comProvided via: http://www.i-newswire.comIf you have questions regarding information in these press release contact the company listed below. I-Newswire.com is a press release service and not the author of this press release. The information that is on or available through this site is for informational purposes only and speaks only as of the particular date or dates of that information. As some companies / PR Agencies submit their press releases once per week/month or quarter, make sure check the official company website for accurate release dates as our site displays the I-Newswire.com distribution date only. We do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of information on or available through this site, and we are not responsible for inaccuracies or omissions in that information or for actions taken in reliance on that information.

World Vision Australia omits important fact from their current adds.

2006-01-31T13:56:00.000+10:30

The Hastings Safe Water Association

31/1/06
World Vision’s omits important fact from their current add.
Dear Editor,
We are asking that the Head of World Vision Australia please apologise to the Australian people for the deception caused by the wording of their current adds regarding the child Thomas.

In the televised add presently showing, we are told that the crippling condition Thomas and his siblings suffer from is caused by “dirty water”.

What the add omits to tell us is that it is not the dirty water which causes Thomas’s actual bone disease. As explained in the full text of the World Vision text, which is copyrighted, 2006 but last modified 23/12/05

“Ten-year-old Thomas lives with his parents, brothers and sisters in rural
Tanzania. All five children suffer from a debilitating condition caused by
drinking dirty water. Thomas with his sisters and one of his brothers. Their only water source had a high content of naturally occurring fluoride. Over time it caused calcium to leach from their bones and teeth. In severe cases, this can weaken and damage the bones. Thomas' brother Zakayo is so badly affected now he needs crutches to walk.” © (Copyright World Vision Australia 2006. All rights reserved. Last Modified: Friday, December 23, 2005.)

Australians would still dig deep if they thought it was dirty water or fluoride which caused what we would now call crippling Skeletal Fluorosis, so we have to ask why were we not told the true cause of Thomas’ and his siblings’ illness?

Could it be that to link the word Fluoride with any thing as dreadful as a crippled child is not politically correct in the current climate in Australia? I would hope that World Vision was more independent and responsible than that. Is Fluoride the protected pollutant, because Government policy is attempting to fluoridate 100% of Australians at present?

It would be appalling to think that World Vision has bowed to political pressure and ensured that Australians were kept from knowing the true cause of illness of the children it is trying to help. Answers World vision please?
Yours sincerely
Therese Mackay

A4 laflets for use...no copyright

2006-01-23T18:32:00.000+10:30

Four A4 leaflets you can use...no copyright

1.
The Medical Profession should Consider this:

If physicians were to prescribe to patients they know nothing about, including their age, medical history, physical status, disease state, immune system viability or tolerance for medicines, a medically active, unproven and vaguely sanctioned drug at uncontrolled doses and tell them to take as much as they want for the rest of their lives while not monitoring the side effects, how long would they be practicing medicine before their licenses were revoked?

The answer, of course, is not for very long.

Unfortunately, many Australians are unaware that this is exactly what is happening when they sanction spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayers’ dollars each year to add the volatile toxin Hydrofluosilicic acid to our otherwise decent drinking water.

The Australian Medical Association in the Hastings support Artificial Fluoridation of our Water Supply. Artificial Fluorides are put into the water not to treat the water, as with Chlorine. Artificial Fluoride is put into the water to treat the people and is thus medication.

Ask your doctor to explain the ethics of forced Mass medication to you.

The Hastings Council intends adding Hydrofluosilicic Acid or Sodiumsilicio Fluoride to our water supply in November 2005.

ACT NOW- ASK YOUR DOCTOR TO EXPLAIN THE ETHICS OF FORCED MASS MEDICATION.
Ask why the Australian Medical Association supports such a Draconian practice which is Medically Unethical.
References:-
Dr. Jim Beck is a retired biophysicist and researcher from the University of Calgary. Dr. Bob Dickson is a practicing family physician in Calgary who deals with the deleterious effects of fluoride in his patient population.

2.
Unflouridated Countries have dramatic drop in Dental Decay:
The deferring to and recanting of the official party line on fluoride, the blindly and oft repeated mantra that fluoride helps kids, especially poor kids is very contemptuous.
Many professionals still reiterate the misleading statistics that caries have been reduced by up to 75% since fluoride was introduced. Can you spot the disconnect here?
Yes, caries have decreased by up to 75% in the past 50 or so years since the first extremely flawed studies promoting fluoride were introduced but the incidence of caries in Europe which is 99% non-fluoridated, and in British Columbia which remains fluorosilicic acid free in more than 95% of its communities, has also decreased by the same or even more.
The impressive reduction in caries is not at all connected to fluoride in our drinking water but to a much healthier diet for children, regular brushing and flossing of teeth and much superior and more accessible dental care for all, particularly kids?
The Hastings Council intends adding Hydrofluosilicic Acid or Sodiumsilicio Fluoride to our water supply in November 2005.

ACT NOW – Ask your Councillors to explain their reasons for such a shameful waste of our Rates.
References:-Dr. Jim Beck is a retired biophysicist and researcher from the University of Calgary. Dr. Bob Dickson is a practicing family physician in Calgary who deals with the deleterious effects of fluoride in his patient population.

3.
Are there Side Effects From Artificial Fluoridation?
Many good scientific studies show an increased incidence of hip fractures because of fluoride ingestion as well as strong associations with thyroid problems (look at the vast number of patients in our western world on thyroid supplementation), adverse effects on the pineal gland, neurological sequelae such as deleterious effects on learning and intelligence, and association with several cancers. Indeed, higher doses of fluoride were used in Europe not too many decades ago to treat overactive thyroid glands.
However, the most obvious and noticeable deleterious effect of fluoride is that of fluorosis. Over 40% of children in fluoridated areas are showing signs of fluorosis, and the old mantra of this side effect being “only cosmetic” is being rapidly abandoned, even by the most ardent promoters of fluoride.
Those who have touted in the past the monetary savings of fluoride by reducing the need for cavity repair are now admitting that the cost of repairing teeth damaged by fluorosis has far outstripped any possible savings and the gap is rapidly widening. Say goodbye to the economic argument for fluoride.
Promoters of this drug agree that what we see in the enamel we also see in our skeletal bones. Therefore, mottling, pitting and infrastructure destruction that is visible in our enamel is also occurring in all the bones in our bodies.
The Hastings Council intends adding Hydrofluosilicic Acid or Sodiumsilicio Fluoride to our water supply in November 2005.

ACT NOW –DO NOT ALLOW OUR CHILDREN TO BE POISONED BY OUR APATHY, AND THE LIES OF THE NSW HEALTH DEPT.

References:-Dr. Jim Beck is a retired biophysicist and researcher from the University of Calgary. Dr. Bob Dickson is a practicing family physician in Calgary who deals with the deleterious effects of fluoride in his patient population.

4.
Where Does Fluoride they put in our water come from?
Most people are not aware that Hydrofluosilicic acid is a volatile substance that is scrubbed out of smokestacks of the fertilizer and aluminium industries.
This chemical, not approved in Australia for administration to humans, also contains traces of lead, cadmium and arsenic. Less than a teaspoon of Hydrofluosilicic acid will kill an adult.
Where would the fertilizer industry dispose of such a volatile chemical, and how many multiples of millions of dollars would this process cost if they were not able to dispose of it for considerable profit in our drinking water?

The Hastings Council intends adding Hydrofluosilicic Acid or Sodiumsilicio Fluoride to our water supply in November 2005

ACT NOW – Don’t allow your Kidneys to be used as cheap and expendable filters for the Fertilizer and Aluminium Industries.
References - Dr. Jim Beck is a retired biophysicist and researcher from the University of Calgary. Dr. Bob Dickson is a practicing family physician in Calgary who deals with the deleterious effects of fluoride in his patient population.

The Hastings Safe Wa

2006-01-23T17:04:00.000+10:30

Another Fluoride Spill - Accidents do Happen!

23/1/06

Another Fluoride Spill -
Accidents do Happen.

The Hastings Safe Water Association urges all residents of the Hastings to consider the outcome should the Hastings Port Macquarie Council continue on their hell bent path, against the wishes of the majority of residents and fluoridate the Hastings.

We are assured that Fluoridation is safe. So why when there are spills do the authorities feel it necessary to warn residents not to drink the water? That one question (amongst many) has never been addressed by Council, the NSW Health Department, The Australian Medical Association, the Australian Dental Association or the National Health and Medical Research Council.

All these bodies assure us that Fluoridation is 100% safe and no one need ever be concerned about its introduction.
So when The president of Pennsylvania American Water Co. apologized to customers for the fluoride spill that left thousands of West Shore residents without water in December saying "Please accept our deepest apologies for any inconvenience this caused," we need our health bodies to answer why stop the water if Fluorides are so safe?
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. The advisory was lifted the following day.

Municipal officials and residents complained that they didn't receive proper notification of the spill or the restrictions on water usage. The spill was caused by operator error and that policies and procedures that would have prevented it weren't followed.

Our Mayor Rob Drew and those authorities who support and actively promote artificial fluoridation have not given a guarantee to Hastings Residents that they would be prepared for an accidental spill and also it appears from their lack of responses to our questioning that they have no contingency plans should such an accident occur.

In 2006 this is just not good enough for Hastings residents, nor for the residents of any area threatened by forced Fluoridation of the public water supply.
Therese Mackay President of the Hastings (Australia) Safe Water Association

Submission to Dental Inquiry.

2006-01-17T19:28:00.000+10:30

3/8/05

To the Dental Services Inquiry
Social Issues Committee
Parliament House
Macquarie Street
Sydney. 2000 NSW

To Whom it May Concern,

Professor Sir Arthur Amies then Dean of the Faculty of Dental Science (Melbourne University) said, “The passion to regulate the lives of others is deep seated in many individuals. When this is based on political expediency, it is bad, and when it is inspired by an idealism which wishes to inflict benefits on others, it can be dangerous.”

I would like to be able to speak on behalf of my association towards my submission please.

Before I get into the main part of my submission there are some scientifically undeniable facts some facts to consider: -
“1. Dental caries is not a disease from lack of fluorine. It has other causes.
2. There is no fluorine lack in the human body, at most a fluorine surplus.
3.    There is no "optimal" dose for fluoride.
4.    The "harmlessness threshold" of 1 ppm fluoride constructed by fluorine proponents is wrong.
5.    Already at 1 ppm fluoride in drinking water produces visible dental fluorosis in about 16% of the persons affected. That is a permanent damage done to the enamel and the first visible sign of fluorine toxicity.

Fluoride is not an essential trace element.

Fluoride is ineffective against dental caries.

8.    After the halt of water fluoridation in different states of Europe there was no "tide of caries" as predicted by the fluoride proponents and their societies but on the contrary a clear decline in dental caries.
9.    The reasons for caries differences in fluoridation studies are other than fluoride including bad design of experiments and statistical artifacts.
10.  After ten years of drinking water fluoridation the increase of dental caries rate in children with water fluoridation is significantly higher than without fluoridation.
11.   Fluoride does not "harden" the enamel. Dentists claim of "enamel hardening" is physically wrong. High fluoride concentrations (local fluoride applications) etch the enamel and make it brittle, decalcify it and then soften it destructively.
12.    Children with dental fluorosis tend to aplasias of the upper incisors I-2 as an early stage of lip-jaw-palatine-clefts.
13.     The permanent tooth eruption is delayed by fluoride.
14.    Easily water-soluble fluorides attack the gastric mucosa.
15.    Sodium fluoride inhibits blood coagulation, i.e. it promotes bleedings.
16.    Readily water-soluble fluorides are strong enzyme-, cell- and cumulative poisons. They inhibit numerous enzymes already in relatively small concentrations (e. g. liver enzymes) and block the glycolysis preferably in the cardiac muscle.
17.   With healthy people about half of the fluoride intake is excreted by urine and faeces, with sick people (suffering from kidney disease) and with old people less. Readily water-soluble fluorides (e. g. NaF) are excreted over the urinary passage, water-soluble fluorides of low solubility (e.g. CaF2) are excreted by faeces.
18.    The other half of the fluoride is stored mainly in the skeleton and disturbs the skeletal metabolism. The fluoride content of the skeleton increases with age and with the level of fluoride intake, the citrate content decreases simultaneously. The skeleton ages earlier. Fluorosis is a recognized occupational disease.
19.    Increased fluoride deposition in the skeleton leads to multiplied water incorporation and thus to corresponding loosening and higher chemical vulnerability of the sub microscopic crystal structure. The quality of the skeleton deteriorates, the fracture healing is disturbed.
20.   Increasing concentration of NaF in drinking water of adult male BALB/c mice produces an increasing share of chromosome breaks in bone marrow and in spermatocytes.
21.  In the USA along rising natural fluoride contents in drinking water a significantly rising number of mongoloid children per 10.000 births from mothers under 40 years was stated. The share of mongoloid children of mothers from artificially fluoridated areas (1 ppm) was clearly higher than the share of mongoloid children from areas that were naturally fluoridated.

Experiments with different experimental and wild animals showed that with rising fluoride concentration in their food the fertility and the breeding of the progeny decreased and later generations were disturbed. Along with rising fluoride contents in drinking water a significant decrease in the natal rate and an increased infertility of women was stated.

Between the cancer death rate and the fluoridation rate in the USA there exists a statistically highly significant dependency over a period of 22 years (1949-1970). Further there exists a significant relation between the number of the additionally fluoridated persons and the increase in cancer deaths in the same year in the USA 1951-1970. In the city Basle (of Switzerland) the share of female cancer dead in the female population had practically constant from 1950 -1962 (for 13 years). After introduction of water fluoridation in the year 1962 the share of female cancer dead in the female population rose significantly with the following 21 years 1963-1983. (Rudolf Ziegelbecker)

So it is not a given that Fluoridation is necessary, quite the opposite.

Background
The Hastings Safe Water Association has been active in the Hastings for many years, from the 1960’s through till today. We became involved in the Association in 1989 and have remained active members of the group since that time. We came under the umbrella of the Hastings Health and Toxic Watch Association. Later on in 1992 the Hastings Safe Water became the name of the group and incorporated Hastings health and Toxic Watch Association.

What happened 1989-1991

Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Act 1957  -amended in 1989 when Peter Collins was Health Minister – 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 govern only if the water supply authority (Hastings 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.

So this was the state of affairs in 1989 locally.

Our association was responsible for ensuring that residents were made aware of the implications of Fluoridation when Council voted to Fluoridate in 1989 without any public consultation.

That motion was rescinded and went to vote at the next Bi Election in 1991. Our association was responsible for making two documentaries on the Fluoridation issue and their copyright remains with us.

The first featured Dr Phillip R. N Sutton (1914 – 1995) D.D.Sc(Melb), L.D.S., F.R.A.C.D.S, Formerly Academic Associate and Senior research Fellow, Department of Oral medicine and Surgery, Dental School, University of Melbourne. He spoke at length about the dangers of Fluoridation. Dr Sutton is the author of three books  - “ Fluoridation: Errors and Omissions in Experimental Trials”, “Fluoridation 1979, Scientific Criticisms and Fluoride Dangers”, “The greatest Fraud, Fluoridation”, one of which was published by Melbourne University. Considering his qualifications and his in depth studies as a Statistician it would have been a duty for those promoting Fluoridation to have read all of Dr Sutton’s scholarly books. No doubt all those within the NSW health Department promoting Fluoridation have done this as part of their duty of care to NSW taxpayers.

The second documentary was organised and funded by our Association and was a Forum with three speakers pro Fluoridation provided by the NSW Health Department and three speakers against Fluoridation provided by our Association.

Those for the Health Department were Rob Weidenhoffer, John Beard Both from the Health Department and a local, Joan Lowe. Our speakers were Dennis Stevenson independent member for the Legislative Assembly of ACT, Rodger French Diploma Of Agriculture, Diploma of Nutrition, BA Engineering and Executive Director of the Natural health Society, and John Barrett who majored in Australian Pharmaceutical history and was a practising Chemist as well as deputy Mayor at that time, later to become the Mayor.

These two documentaries still are relevant and we would be happy to provide them to you.

The vote in September 1991 was representative as out of 30,000 eligible voters 29,358 people voted either for or against Fluoridation -  71.5% against. Council passed a motion 7-3, a motion put up by Daphne Johnson that they accept the will of the people and not Fluoridate. Apparently there’s a time limit on democracy.

There things stood for some time.

What Happened in the Hastings 2003-2004

In Aug 2003 we heard mention of a “Tele Conference” on Fluoridation to be held shortly and asked John Irving MNCAHS Oral health Project manager to be kept informed. Then the whole issue seemed to die down – we found out why later on in a radio interview given by John Irving in mid 2004 on ABC Radio in which he said and I quote from the transcript –

“We had numerous consultations with senior council staff and mayors over the past 18 months, and then the elections were delayed and we had them in March. Straight after the elections we then instituted the “Decay Crisis Forum” which was open to the public …” end quote

The question has to be asked is why was that original Tele Conference which was to be held before the local Council Elections, and which would have made it easier for us to vote, at that election then delayed till after the election when a vote was going to be very unlikely?

The Tele Conference which should have been held before Council Elections as originally planned, was postponed until after the Elections! No chance of a vote then. The only “public consultation” by the Health Department was a poorly run “Tele Conference” in which all speakers were Fluoridation promoters and mainly consisting of selected guests, where only one question from the floor was allowed before they broke the tele-conference link. This meeting, we only just found out about, shortly before it was held. It was held in a small room in the old public hospital, a room never intended for large public meetings.

That was CONSULTATION according to Council and the NSW health Department.

What the 1989 Legislation means for the Hastings and all NSW unflouridated towns.

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 committee & 100% hundred percent of the Committee are pro Fluoridation.

Residents have been informed by Councils that the Advisory Panel is there to “investigate” the issue of Fluoridation. We have been led to believe that this Committee are “experts” who are there to ask the hard questions and to seek to get the best health outcome for residents.

I 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 but 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.

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.

The ignorance of the Health Dept is breathtaking – John Irving recently said that Fluoride is a “Micro Nutrient” – then after being exposed in paper he apologised and claimed that it had been a “Typo.”

This is what Fluoride is,
Fluoride is any combination of elements containing the fluoride ion. In its elemental form, fluorine is a pale yellow, highly toxic and corrosive gas. It boggles the mind that a cumulative toxin and toxic waste product can be described as a “nutrient”. Nevertheless, such claims are repeatedly made by pro-fluoridationists. They just prattle on like this and take no responsibility…there are no double blind scientific studies anywhere in the world which class Fluoride as a Nutrient, much less a micro nutrient.
The Fluoride we get put into our water is contaminated with arsenic, lead, barium, cadmium, and mercury, no analyses of fluoro silicic acid are performed at the source, and only rudimentary analyses are performed at water treatment plants prior to their injection into public water systems. In many artificially fluoridated areas, the lead and copper content of the water exceeds EPA/Safe Drinking Water Act standards. This occurs because of the caustic nature of fluoro silicic acid and its capacity to leach copper and lead from soldered pipe joints and brass fixtures. - "Fluoridation: License to Dump Toxic Waste In The Name of Public Health", Health Action Network, Fluoride Report No. 4, Jan (1997)
I have here very large folder of letters we have sent out to council, councilors, dentists, doctors, politicians – years of research, months of writing, a huge effort. What is noticeable when I flick through these is the glaring lack of answers from any of them. Apart from brief acknowledgements from one or two…our officials do not bother to answer.
Maybe they just can’t.
Our State MP the Independent Rob Oakeshott was given a list of questions by us 4/2/05 – still unanswered – he was going to get back to us with them in two weeks, from John Irving from the NSW Health Dept.
Below please find that letter. Maybe this committee can find the answers before Fluoridation. We would hope that from this some direction could be given to Mr. Oakeshott to answer the questions put to him in good faith by his constituents.
Our letter starts
4/2/05

Mr Rob Oakeshott MP
Clarence St.,
Port Macquarie
NSW 2444

Dear Rob,
We are writing to you to ask you as our State Member of Parliament to write to the NSW Health Department and request the following, which should be readily available, as Fluoridation began in Australia over forty years ago.

1.We would like you to ask for all the Australian and Foreign “Double Blind Scientific Studies” which they have. We especially would be interested if they have any “Double Blind Scientific Studies” done by independent scientists. Considering that the 1991 NHMRC recommended monitoring levels of Fluorides they should now have the Double Blind studies results of those recommendations.

We realise you would know the meaning of “Double Blind” but for the benefit of the NSW Health Department we are seeking studies in which neither the researchers/scientists, nor the subjects knew which control group was receiving the Fluoridation and which was not.

We would like to see their scientific studies and monitoring of the Fluoride levels in the people in the towns about to be fluoridated, as per WHO recommendations We are especially interested to see all their scientific studies and monitoring of those living in long term Fluoridated areas, where they would have done scientific double blind studies on blood levels, fluorosis of the teeth and bones, Arthritis, Fibro myalgia, the Immune System, Genetic damage, Cancers Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and others.

Considering the widespread use of Fluoridation on the Australian population (80% Fluoridated), State and Federal Governments no doubt would have commissioned many Scientific Double Blind Studies which have been performed in a manner to make them acceptable to the worldwide scientific community.

2. As Fluoridation is a scientifically recognised medication by TGA and WHO, all Medical Dictionaries, The High Court of Edinburgh we request a direct scientific, pharmacology published statement as to “what is the ‘safe’ controlled dose of fluoride per person, babies to adults, and how is that daily dose controlled by people forced to drink fluoridated town water supplies all their lives?

3. As Fluoridated water is prohibited in Kidney Dialysis treatment does this clearly indicate fluoride toxicity for humans?

We would also like to ask you to ask the Health Department for one double blind scientific study that shows that Fluoride claimed effect that will stand scientific scrutiny.

4. We have written to the local Hastings Council seeking the following information. We would now ask would you please pass this on to the NSW Health Department for answers, as it is really their responsibility to instruct our Council as to the proper handling and administration of Fluoridation. We are seeking answers to some questions concerning the proposed delivery of Sodium Silicofluoride and Hydrofluosilicic Acid to the Hastings Water Supply.

The facility to add Sodium Silicofluoride and Hydrofluosilicic Acid to the water supply will be near Wauchope according to the Port Macquarie News. Can you describe to us the delivery of this to Port Macquarie, Wauchope, Laurieton, Kew, Bonny Hills, Lake Cathie, Kew, and all other towns in the Hastings, which will be drinking this water?

Once the water is fluoridated, where will it be held? How will it be delivered to the various towns – could you please describe delivery to each? Where will this water be held, once it reaches the townships? Eg in concrete covered reservoirs and or storage dams.

We also would also like to know what is the planned safety regime for monitoring Fluoride levels in all dams and reservoirs, and at the domestic tap outlet. We are especially concerned about “first Flush” water from domestic taps, and also monitoring of Fluoride levels from taps that are infrequently used as we know and are concerned that there are problems with levels of Fluorides at from these sources.

Could you please give us details of the safety precautions you will have planned to protect workers handling fluorides eg protective clothing, breathing equipment, specialised training in handling and emergency procedures in case of spillages. Will you have plans made for frequent monitoring of the workers blood levels and other physiological testing, to avoid acute and chronic poisoning of workers?

As there are many recorded of occasions where Sodium Silicofluoride and Hydrofluosilicic Acid have been added to the water supplies in concentrated levels, due to human and mechanical failure, what plans do the NSW Health Department and the Hastings Council have set in place to warn all affected residents not to drink or use the water? We are interested in the time frame that you would have planned, should overdosing occur, between the incident of overdosing and your being able to stop delivery of water to residents. There are Court Cases and Litigation in process in the US at this time because of this, so Councils need to have a plan.

Should breakdowns occur, would the Hastings Council and the NSW Health Department keep all residents and the Media fully informed?

Are the Fluoride Chemicals Sodium Silicofluoride and Hydrofluosilicic Acid, to be used in the Hastings Water Supplies officially registered as safe for humans in water and documented by the appropriate Government agencies such as the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and in particular the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) as the Minister states is necessary?

The Law relative to Potable Water states that there must not be any evidence of Pesticides or Insecticides. The World Health Association (WHO) in their publication “Evaluation of the Carcinogenic risk of Chemicals to Humans” describes Sodium Silicofluoride and Hydrofluosilicic Acid as Insecticides. How does the Health Department legally, medically and pharmaceutically circumvent this Health Law?

The WHO in their recommendations on Fluoridation uptake states “prior determination of prevailing Fluoride intake from all sources including drinking water, food and general environment.” Please state and supply copies of your scientific study under WHO recommendations. (See Q1)

We hope you can attend to our questions as soon as possible as we are aware that the planning for the implementation of Artificial Fluoridation is well advanced, there is the need to have plans for the above monitoring and for emergencies at hand.

We realise that there is a fair bit in all of this but as no one has asked these questions there is the need for honesty in the interests of the Hastings People.

It is likely that the NSW Health Department will take some time answering, but they should have all this information at their fingertips, before they even consider Fluoridation, so therefore it should not be too onerous for them.

We also ask that you as our elected representative in State Parliament ask the above questions in Parliament as well as asking the Health Department, and that you please follow up on their responses to all the questions. WE ask this knowing that we have a large support in the community, considering the last referendum results, and present input on this issue.

We thank you for your time this morning, and for your generous offer of writing to the NSW health Department on behalf of our Community Group.
Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay
President of the Safe Water Association.
Our letter ends.
We also wrote to council questions none of which anyone has bothered to answer. We hope that this committee can find the answers before Fluoridation. Our Letter starts.
6th October 2004
The Mayor, Councillors and Council Insurer’s
Hastings Council
Burrawan Street
PORT MACQUARIE   2444

Dear Sir/Madam,

Fluoridation of the drinking water supply contravenes the United Nations International Covenant on Human Rights

Australia has been a signatory to this since the early 1980’s.

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 recently on this issue. In particular discussion concerned Article 7.

Article 7 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.

There are hundreds if not thousands of properly done scientific studies warning about the short and long term dangers of Fluoridation, to humans, animals and to the environment.

If the drinking water is fluoridated we are being medicated without choice as adding Sodium Silicio Fluoride or Hydro Silicic Fluoride to our water supply takes away our choice. It is virtually impossible to avoid Fluoridated water if you live in a Fluoridated community.

Reverse Osmosis Water filters are extremely wasteful of water due to their efficiency and to the difficulty of removing Fluorides. They are expensive. Also you need to filter water used in cooking, as well as drinking. Restaurants and coffee shops will not be able to properly filter all water used in cooking and making drinks, so unless you plan on staying home, you will have no choice, neither will your children have a choice at friends places or at school.

Our Health Department Bureaucrats, Doctors, Dentists and most Councillors may be comfortable with acting in contravention to UN covenants and see nothing wrong with forced medication, a medication, which is in every sense of the word an experiment, without informed choice, something one person cannot give for another, but it is unethical for them to do so.

Litigation
The evidence is gathering of its disastrous effects of Water Fluoridation on all living things. Litigation will follow, and is current in some places. I doubt that there are Insurers large enough in the Hastings to cover the costs, should there be accidental overdosing in the short term, or to cover the side effects that are known to all.

We reported on the city of Escondido in California, a short while back. Within the first 24hrs of Fluoridation they had an equipment failure in which there was a large spillage of flourosilicic acid into a containment system. The City of Escondido and the California Department of Health Services are now engaged in a Litigation Action against citizens of Escondido. It happens.

They cannot ever say in future that they did no know. They know and they have been told. What they do now is a matter for the public record.

The Hastings Safe Water Association is extremely concerned about the proposed introduction of fluoride into the water supply and our concern arises on two levels.

The first is that there is a serious question in relation to the safety of fluoride on a long term basis and questionable value for a large proportion of the population, and secondly it is our view that introduction of fluoride as proposed is a breach of basic human rights.

Health Issues
Those in favour of the introduction of fluoride for the protection of children’s teeth argue that this justifies the addition to the public water supply of chemicals that are known to be liable to cause severely damaging medical affects in all members of the public including those outside the specified target group.
However, the adverse affects of fluoride in the human body are now well documented and the claims of those who oppose fluoride are backed up with far more conclusive studies than those who propound fluoride.  It is the fact that most, if not all of the claim to benefits of fluoride can actually be attributed to alternative factors in dental hygiene and diet and the medical damage liable to affect the general population, which includes fatal conditions, represents an unacceptable public health risk compared with the merely inconvenient or cosmetic problems associated with dental decay.

It is largely believed that the improvement in children’s tooth decay is attributed to fluoridation.  However, the great improvement in children’s teeth in the Sydney area was 52% from 1961 – 1968 during which time Sydney was not fluoridated.  Silicofluorides which are the chemicals used in water fluoridation are Schedule 5 poisons under the Australian Therapeutic Goods Act.

Silicofluorides have not been properly tested for safety in fluoridating drinking water and their use in water fluoridation has even been called an “ideal solution to a long standing problem” as a way to dispose of a highly toxic by-product that is otherwise an enormous health hazard to the local environment.  Silicofluorides used in water fluoridation are waste products of the phosphate fertiliser industry.

Research has also shown that there is an association between silicofluoride treated water and elevated blood lead levels which in turn have disturbing implications in relation to neurological and sociological consequences.  A search on the Internet under the search term “Silicofluorides” reveals a number of disturbing articles in relation to harmful affects of silicofluorides.

Studies have also shown that with constant ingestion silicofluorides are extremely cumulative, cannot be eliminated and have severely debilitating and disabling effects on those exposed to it for long periods of time, particularly as its victims approach old age.  It can also precipitate a dramatic increase in an otherwise rare and fatal form of bone cancer in adolescent boys, even after relatively short periods of exposure.

The National Health and Medical research Council in 1991 published a report into the effectiveness of Fluoridation. The main concern in this report was the concern that we were all ingesting too mush Fluoride from the environment, from our foods, from toothpastes and from our water as well as other sources. Some of their recommendations were,
     “There is an urgent need to upgrade substantially our monitoring of dental health to include older children and adults, and to monitor the levels of fluoride exposure and the occurrence of dental fluorosis in Australia.”
     “Reduce the likelihood of excessive ingestion by young children of fluoride from infant formulas and from fluoridated toothpastes” The NHMRC recommended using only a pea sized amount of fluoridated toothpaste for children; to buy low fluoride toothpastes for children and to monitor i.e. stand with your children as they brushed their teeth so that they did not swallow any toothpaste. How many parents were made aware of this in the past 13 years since this report?
They mentioned infant formula and produced a table in their report, which shows the high levels of fluoride in unreconstituted infant formulas currently used in Australia. Nan formula has about 3.74 p.p.m and when reconstituted with fluoridated water has 4.74 p.p.m. Each bottle of milk for a baby is there for 400% higher than the recommended amount of fluoride ingestion for babies. How many parents were told this since 1991?
The NHMRC went on to recommend that authorities
     “develop monitoring mechanisms to document total fluoride intakes by adults with a view to estimating levels of depositions in bone, bearing in mind that water fluoridation at around 1ppm appears, on present evidence to be the main single source of fluoride intake in adults.” We have not seen any evidence of any research being done on this nor aware of any monitoring.

Our concern is that with this body of medical research available, the addition of silicofluorides to the drinking water in the Hastings could potentially amount to negligence if the research is ignored and the potential effects disregarded.

The introduction of silicofluorides in a population which is already experiencing increased rates of cancer and auto immune in circumstances where its safety is uncertain is, in our view, not only negligent but also stupid.  Litigation has already commenced in the United States following a failure of equipment in the city of Escondido which resulted in 20 or 30 gallons of the fluorosilicate acid spilling into a container system with potentially serious results had it gone undetected.  There has also been reports from northern California in relation to a malfunction that delivered 250 parts per million fluoride slug in the water supply that sickened 23 workers in one commercial building with 12 suffering acute symptoms and four admitted for medical care.

Ethical Issues
The health issues are important but the arguments between those in favour of fluoride and those not in favour of fluoride in terms of the health benefits tend to divert critical attention away from the central issue which is - does any state have the ethical and legal right to impose compulsory and medical interventions on the population without consent regardless of the efficacy of the intervention in the protection of some aspect of public health?
The prophylactic administration of any substance to the entire population in a form not easily avoided is an infringement of medical ethics and of basic human rights.  Several international conventions deal with fundamental freedoms and the ethical limitations of medical interventions by states in the private lives of their citizens.  Our major concern is the lack of information provided to the public in relation to the medical risks of silicofluorides as Schedule 5 poisons, these substances are effectively public medication contrary to the provisions of the Australian Therapeutic Goods Act and because they are publicly distributed they cannot be supervised in either individual or general cases.
The introduction of silicofluorides also seem to breach the provisions of the Water Management Act which set out the water management principles which include, among others, the following principles:

the water quality of all water sources should be protected and, wherever possible, enhanced;

the cumulative impact of water management licenses and approvals other activities on water sources and their dependent eco systems, should be considered and minimised.

The fluoridation of water in New South Wales is covered by the Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Act 1957.  Once fluoridation occurs a water supply authority to which an approval has been granted is not able to discontinue fluoridating the water supply unless the approval or direction is revoked by the Secretary of the Public Water Committee.  There appear to be no controls on the Committee in relation to the question of fluoridation and this is a serious concern to our organisation, given the research that we referred to above, particularly as regards the question of human rights.  It is our very firm view that the individual ought to be given the option to either accept or decline the ingestion of a substance which is as potentially toxic as silicofluorides.  This is particularly so when other forms of fluoride treatment are readily available to the public in the forms of tablets, drops and fluoride toothpastes.  By adding fluoride to the water you are essentially committing those people who do not wish to ingest fluoride to spending large amounts of money in fitting reverse osmosis water filters.  There is also a question as to whether they are viable in areas of water restriction given that they are extremely wasteful of water.

The NHMRC in its 1991 report stated
     “If a majority of the community does not wish to have fluoride added to its drinking water, irrespective of any health benefits, (or indeed adverse effects) that result from such addition, then that is a decision that the community and its elected representatives must make…. However, public health scientists should not take, nor be expected to take, a primary responsibility for the decision as to what is morally, ethically and politically acceptable to a community. They have no particular expertise or authority in this regard beyond that of other members of the community.”

Again the directions of the NHMRC have not been followed by the Hastings Council or the NSW Health Department

In conclusion the addition of unregistered medical substances to public water supply without medical supervision of informed consent of the subjects, is both seriously unethical medical intervention on a massive scale under violation of human rights.
There has been a remarkable lack of discussion of the legality of fluoridation in Parliament, the media and in public sector information to the general public.
The designation of silicofluorides for adding to water does not constitute the issue of a licence for their use as pharmaceuticals. Without such a Product Licence, their use constitutes merely the administration of a registered poison to the public water supply, an act that implies substantial legal consequences for those promoting, authorising and implementing fluoridation.
Conclusion.
Adding a controlled drug and poison to a product (water) converts that product into a medicinal product, since the objective is to medicate. The concentration may be low, but it remains a medicinal product - many medicinal products are administered in extremely low quantities (e.g. vaccines) but that does not disqualify them as medicines. So here are some of the consequences.
1. Presenting the medication to the public as proposed is in contravention of their registered purpose as specified for Schedule 5 poisons - they are not provided to the public in appropriate packaging, nor is there an appropriate warning or safety directions on the product as delivered to the patients. We are all patients if we are being medicated. The medication is not 'child-resistant' - any child can open a tap and obtain an unlimited amount of the poison for its own unsupervised consumption.
2. The substances are not accessible to the public in discrete and quantitatively defined doses. A concentration is not a dose - it is not possible to control the amount of the medication as presented to the public taken in by any patient, and there is no relationship between the exposure, body mass, nor the supposed officially recommended daily dose. Note that for bottle-fed infants, the daily exposure per kilogram body mass can be as much as 2.5 times as much as would be absorbed by an adult. The common and increasing presence of fluoride in other drinks and in food provides an equally uncontrolled 'dose' - the combination of unregulated access and unknown additional daily exposure invalidates any attempt to establish and administer a regulated 'dose' of fluoride to every member of the public. The concept of providing fluoride in a lawful and controllable 'medication' is therefore an absurdity.
3. These registered poisons are not administered to individual patients under the supervision of pharmacologically or medically qualified specialists. Any local authority or water company, etc, adding these substances to the public water supply is guilty of administering a medicine (and/or a poison) without a relevant medical qualification, which is a very serious criminal assault on the public.
4. Any medical or other person authorizing the addition of these poisons to the water supply, regardless of their personal qualifications and status, is therefore personally responsible for promoting an act of medical malpractice. Equally, any Professional Indemnity Insurance held by them, or by their employers, is invalid - it is not possible to indemnify a criminal act. This also applies to technical workers in the water sector who may be involved in the process of water purification, and whose Professional Accrediting Body requires compliance with a Code of Practice or Code of Ethics forbidding unethical behaviour.
5. Professional medical and dental practitioners advocating any medical intervention to the public are required to ensure that prospective patients receive complete and balanced information regarding the potential effects of whatever medication they are recommending to their patients. In the case of fluoridation, no such balanced information appears in many cases to be being provided. Patients are therefore not capable of making an informed decision as to whether or not they will accept the treatment. Those professionals providing unsound advice are at best liable for professional negligence, and at worst for medical malpractice. In any case, the individual patient still retains the right to reject any medical recommendation. But they will be prevented from exercising this right if a medicinal or poisonous substance is present in the public water supply.
6. The most authoritative meta-study of the literature on the medical effects of fluoridation (The York Review, 2000) found that none of the research papers published on fluoridation reached an adequate standard for any valid scientific conclusion to be reached that the practice is either safe or efficacious. No valid clinical recommendation for water fluoridation as general medication is therefore possible, and the application of these poisons to the treatment of bad teeth by adding them to the public water supply therefore remains purely a research activity. Medical research is subject to extremely stringent ethical and procedural controls, and requires the informed, and preferably written, consent of every individual involved. Individual medical conditions must be taken into account, and every individual has the right to withdraw from the research process at any time. There must be no cumulative or irreversible effects, so that anyone withdrawing from the program remains exposed to the substances after withdrawing.
Fluoridation as proposed is therefore merely the extension of an already illegal medical research program on a very large and inadequately informed (and in many cases unconsenting) population of subjects, and is medical malpractice. Since fluoride is cumulative, no effective withdrawal is possible and the effects of exposure constitute an irreversible and increasing risk throughout life. Any public sector individual involved in the authorization or implementation of medicating the public in this fashion is guilty of participating in illegal medical research.
7. Human Rights application. There are many provisions of human rights legislation that prohibit medical intervention without consent and unlawful medical research upon human populations. The principles enshrined in the cited legislation apply equally in Australia. Also take note of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, which also restricts the authority of the state to interfere with the right of a child and his/her legal guardians to determine what medical interventions may carried out on children.
Legal challenges to the practice will inevitably be instigated by individuals and groups objecting on ethical, medical and religious grounds with the potential for the substantial loss of revenue through these claims and also claims for recovery of the costs of installing domestic water filtration units to remove the unlawful substances.
The decision to introduce fluoride into the water system in the Hastings should be very seriously considered bearing in mind the information presented above.  Should you wish to discuss any of the issues or review any of the data that we have collected, please contact me on 6583 9622 at any time.

Yours faithfully
Therese Mackay
President of the Hastings Safe Water Association

References
National health and Medical research Council
Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Act 1957/ amend 1989
York Review 2000
Glen S.R. Walker F.I.M.F., E.M.E.C.S., M.A.E.S. Chairman Freedom from Fluoridation Federation of Australia and of the Anti Fluoridation Association of Victoria.
Dr Phillip R N Sutton D.D.Sc (Melb.), L.D.S. F.R.A.C.D.S.
Douglas Cross, Forensic Ecologist.
Our letter ends

Our Letter to Council’s Water Manager starts.
27/1/05

Mr Murray Thompson
Water Supply Manager
Hastings Council
PO Box 84 Port Macquarie
NSW 2444

Dear Mr Murray Thompson,
On behalf of the Hastings Safe Water Association I am writing to you to seek answers to some questions our Community Group have raised, concerning the proposed delivery of Sodium Silicofluoride and Hydrofluosilicic Acid to the Hastings Water Supply.

The facility to add Sodium Silicofluoride and Hydrofluosilicic Acid to the water supply will be near Wauchope according to the Port Macquarie News. Can you describe to us the delivery of this to Port Macquarie, Wauchope, Laurieton, Kew, Bonny Hills, Lake Cathie, Kew, and all other towns in the Hastings, which will be drinking this water?

Once the water is Fluoridated, where will it be held? How will it be delivered to the various towns – could you please describe delivery to each? Where will this water be held, once it reaches the townships? Eg in concrete covered reservoirs and or storage dams.

We also would also like to know what is the planned safety regime for monitoring Fluoride levels in all dams and reservoirs, and at the domestic tap outlet. We are especially concerned about “first Flush” water from domestic taps, and also monitoring of Fluoride levels from taps that are infrequently used as we know and are concerned that there are problems with levels of Fluorides at from these sources.

Could you please give us details of the safety precautions you will have planned to protect workers handling fluorides eg protective clothing, breathing equipment, specialised training in handling and emergency procedures in case of spillages. Will you have plans made for frequent monitoring of the workers blood levels and other physiological testing, to avoid acute and chronic poisoning of workers?

As there are many recorded of occasions where Sodium Silicofluoride and Hydrofluosilicic Acid have been added to the water supplies in concentrated levels, due to human and mechanical failure, what plans does the Hastings Council have set in place to warn all affected residents not to drink or use the water? We are interested in the time frame that you would have planned, should overdosing occur, between the incident of overdosing and your being able to stop delivery of water to residents. There are Court Cases and Litigation in process in the US at this time because of this, so Councils need to have a plan.

Should breakdowns occur, would the Hastings Council keep all residents and the Media fully informed?

Are the Fluoride Chemicals Sodium Silicofluoride and Hydrofluosilicic Acid, to be used in the Hastings Water Supplies officially registered as safe for humans in water and documented by the appropriate Government agencies such as the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and in particular the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) as the Minister states is necessary?

The Law relative to Potable Water states that there must not be any evidence of Pesticides or Insecticides. The World Health Association (WHO) in their publication “Evaluation of the Carcinogenic risk of Chemicals to Humans” describes Sodium Silicofluoride and Hydrofluosilicic Acid as Insecticides. How does the Hastings Council legally, medically and pharmaceutically circumvent this Health Law?

The WHO in their recommendations on Fluoridation uptake states “prior determination of prevailing Fluoride intake from all sources including drinking water, food and general environment.” Please state and supply copies of your scientific study under WHO recommendations.

We hope you can attend to our questions as soon as possible as we are aware that the planning for the implementation of Artificial Fluoridation is well advanced, you would have plans for the above monitoring and for emergencies at hand.

The Hastings Council needs to address all of the above and give proper attention to the questions raised. Previously the Mayor has directed us to direct our concerns to John Irving from the Local Health Service. It is not his place to do this. The Council has a responsibility to all its residents to research fully and respond to all residents concerns in areas concerning Council’s legal, ethical, moral and medical responsibility to all those living in and visiting the Hastings.

Because of the concerns of our members and of residents a copy of this letter is being sent to all media today, and we will be forwarding your detailed response to them when it arrives.
Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay - President of the Hastings Safe Water Association.
C.C. The NSW Health Minister Mr Iemma; Media
End Letter

Not one of these questions written to Government Departments has been answered adequately if at all. In 2005 this is a disgrace.

At a time when all European Countries have banned or withdrawn Fluoridation we in Australia are pushing it harder than ever without any monitoring of ingestion levels as recommended by the NHMRC in 1991.

“The Scottish Executive (i.e., Scottish Parliament) has just rejected Water Fluoridation on Health, Safety, Medical Ethics and Human Rights grounds. They are going back to sorting the problem of kids' bad teeth at source - bad diet and totally inadequate dental services. Scottish Health Minister Andy Kerr is expected to unveil new measures to lift Scotland’s poor dental health record which are likely to include "more proactive dentistry for young children, more targeted in deprived communities where tooth decay was worse". (The Scotsman) Fluoridation is now considered by the Scottish Parliament to be an abuse of human rights.” 15/11/04
The Welsh Parliament followed suit early in 2005. in line with all the EU countries apart from England – (not Britain) and Ireland. All these countries along with the rest of the developed world have achieved a reduction in dental caries whether fluoridated or not.

I would like this committee to act towards advising all those parents who bottle-feed their babies that the National Health and Medical Research Council in its 1991 Report into the Effectiveness of Fluoridation reported that average fluoride levels in infant formula in Australia were of a concern in fluoridated areas.

It reported that most of the best-known brands of infant formula in powder form (un- reconstituted) contain high levels of fluoride and that one well-known brand contained 3.74 parts per million.

If this formula is then reconstituted with fluoridated water at 1 part per million (p.p.m.) than the baby would be receiving well over 400% of what the recommended daily dose is considered by the Health Department.

The National Health and Medical Research Council Report was concerned that “the duration of infant formula usage is a risk factor for dental fluorosis”. Dental Fluorosis is the first sign of Fluoride toxicity. Just a great start to life for thousands of Australian babies.

The NHMRC recommended back in 1991 the monitoring of fluoride ingestion levels in children especially and in adults. This is not being done by our Health Department who have not warned parents in fluoridated areas that their bottle fed babies are being overdosed every time they have a bottle of infant formula.

Any parent whose child drank bottled infant formula in a fluoridated area since this 1991 report was handed down has been overdosed every time they had a bottle of infant formula. The parents would be well within their rights to seek some answers from the Health department as to why they were not warned by Baby Health Services and by their medical advisors.

The authorities are shamefully lacking and in this case I would say they have been negligent. They did know but have done and said nothing.

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Corporate reasons for the lucrative Fl industry
Water fluoridation is the ideal solution for industry's fluoride waste disposal problem. Like the tall smoke stack introduced a decade earlier, it diverts and disperses pollutants far and wide. Chemicals that would cost $7,000 per tanker to dispose of are sold instead to cities at $265 to at least $722 per ton. Consequently, the phosphate fertilizer manufacturers invest millions of dollars in grants and lobbying of government officials to promote water fluoridation. US figures- "Fluoridation: License to Dump Toxic Waste In The Name of Public Health", Health Action Network, Fluoride Report No. 4, Jan (1997)

We’re always being encouraged to take responsibility for our own health, which is how it should be. This submission is about taking responsibility for our own health, and the health of our children by becoming informed, and then being able to make informed choices – choices which should be respected and supported by the authorities in a democratic country. Our constitution is supposed to protect us from “Forced Medication” – Fluoride is put in the water not to treat the water but to treat the people and is thus medication…when it is put in our water …an essential for life…it is then forced medication.

Fluoride causes cancer.

In 1981, Dean Burk, for many decades Chief Chemist at the US National Cancer Institute, testified at congressional hearings, reporting that at least 40,000 cancer deaths in 1981 were attributable to fluoride. 40,000 cases that could have been prevented simply by NOT putting industry waste into the public water supply. Burk stated that “fluoride causes more cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical. “
In conclusion
The onus is not on me or the Hastings Safe Water Association or any other community group to prove Fluoridation is unsafe, although we feel we’ve done that…the onus is on the NSW health Department to prove, beyond a doubt that Fluoridation is totally and completely safe and will cause no harm at all to anyone of us, be it the aged, those with Chronic illness, kidney diseases or small children.

They have not done that and will not bother to do it…too many careers depend on not rocking the boat. There are some notable and eminent professionals who know too well what happens if you speak out against Fluoridation. Still some like Dr Phillip Sutton, Professor Albert Shatz, Dr Yiamouyiannis, Sir Arthur Amies, Dr Colquhoun, Mr Glen Walker, Dr George Walbott, Dr Hans Moolenburg to name just a few, have had the courage and nobility to research honestly the subject of Fluoridation. They have sacrificed any future promotion and financial gain to serve first the wellbeing of all of us. Most of them have suffered terrible financial burden because of their stance.

Professor Albert Shatz PhD, the discoverer of Streptomycin said that Fluoridation “…is the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated and it has been perpetrated on more people than any other fraud has.”

Yours sincerely
Therese Mackay
President of the Hastings Safe Water Association

Reference:
Dr Phillip R. N. Sutton
Professor Albert Shatz
Dr Yiamouyiannnis
Professor Sir Arthur Amies
Dr Colquhoun
Mr Glen S.R. Walker
Dr George Walbott
Dr Hans Moolenburg

Fluoridation causes Health Problems in Bottle fed babies

2006-01-17T19:23:00.000+10:30

The Health Problems of Bottle fed Babies and Fluoridation
Dear Editor,
I would like to advise all those parents who bottle-feed their babies that the National Health and Medical Research Council in its 1991 Report into the Effectiveness of Fluoridation reported that average fluoride levels in infant formula in Australia were of a concern in fluoridated areas.

It reported that most of the best-known brands of infant formula in powder form (un- reconstituted) contain high levels of fluoride and that one well-known brand contained 3.74 parts per million.

If this formula is then reconstituted with fluoridated water at 1 part per million (p.p.m.) than the baby would be receiving well over 400% of what the recommended daily dose is considered by the Health Department.

The National Health and Medical Research Council Report was concerned that “the duration of infant formula usage is a risk factor for dental fluorosis”. Dental Fluorosis is the first sign of Fluoride toxicity. Just a great start to life for thousands of Australian babies.

The NHMRC recommended back in 1991 the monitoring of fluoride ingestion levels in children especially and in adults. This is not being done by our Health Department who have not warned parents in fluoridated areas that their bottle fed babies are being overdosed every time they have a bottle of infant formula.

Any parent whose child drank bottled infant formula in a fluoridated area since this 1991 report was handed down has been overdosed every time they had a bottle of infant formula. The parents would be well within their rights to seek some answers from the Health department as to why they were not warned by Baby Health Services and by their medical advisors.

The authorities are shamefully lacking and in this case I would say they have been negligent. They did know but have done and said nothing.

Write to the National Health and Medical Research Council and ask them for a copy of their March 1991 Report. Then ask why the authorities have not monitored levels of Fluoride Injestion as recommended by the NHMRC.
Yours sincerely Therese Mackay

Increasing Alzheimer

2006-01-17T19:22:00.000+10:30

Increasing Alzheimer’s and primary brain tumors:The price of fluoridation?
George Glasser/Andreas Schuld
USEPA admits that no chronic toxicity safety testing has been done with the fluorosilicic acid used to fluoridate drinking water, (phosphate fertilizer production pollution scrubber liquor and other fluorosilicates).
On 10 May 1999, US Rep. Ken Calvert, US House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, wrote to the US Environmental Protection Agency. The response, dated 23 June 1999, was made by J. Charles Fox, USEPA Assistant Administrator, at EPA Headquarters. In answer to Question Two: "What chronic toxicity test data are there on sodium fluorosilicate? On hydrofluorosilicic acid. . . ?" Fox wrote: "In collecting the data for the fact sheet EPA was not able to identify chronic studies for these chemicals."
Aside from the much debated fluoride issue, there is a component of the product that might be as bioactive as fluorine. It does not appear on Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) or in any quality control specification sheets (contaminant analyses). However, the component is part and parcel of the empirical formula and the chemical name, Silicon/Silica. All US government agencies are aware of this inherent, possibly carcinogenic, component of fluorosilicates, but refuse to acknowledge it. OSHA requires that any product containing a hazardous substance exceeding 1.0 % of the product be labeled on the product, yet OSHA will not acknowledge that fluorosilicic acid or sodium fluorosilicate used to fluoridate drinking water contains any elemental silica.
One water treatment chemical contract quality control laboratory, Underwriter’s Laboratories, states that they are not obligated to report silica/silicon levels. The primary quality control laboratory contracted by USEPA, National Sanitation Foundation, will not respond to requests for information about the silica levels. The avoidance of acknowledging the presence of silica/silicon in the water fluoridation agents is, more than likely, due to the fact that the fluorosilicates would have to be reclassified to no less than Group 2 substances (probable carcinogens).
The reclassification would disrupt industry and put a halt to drinking water fluoridation. All drinking water fluoridation research papers would be worthless, and a whole new set of Federal regulations for occupational exposures would have to be drafted and implemented.
While the regulatory government agencies procrastinate and industry pressures them to ignore the silica/silicon content, scientific evidence is mounting against silica/silicon as research turns up more nasty little secrets:

1998: "Primary brain tumors are among the most deadly of all cancers, with a 1-year survival rate of 52%. RESULTS: In a bivariate analysis, a statistically significant association was observed between the presence of brain tumors and the concentrations of silicon (p = 0.01)." (J. Environ. Pathol. Toxicol. Oncol. 1998; 17(1):1-9).

Thirty-three patients had Alzheimer-type dementia (ATD); 16 patients had other dementing illnesses; and 20 had no neurologic disease. There were seven cases of autopsy-proven Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and eight autopsy controls. We found elevated CSF silicon in 24% of ATD and 71 % of AD patients. We found no relationship between CSF aluminum, arsenic, lead, or manganese and ATD, AD, or other dementing illnesses." (Neurology 1983 Oct; 33(10):1350-3)

Although documented extensively in the European literature, the synergistic action of silica and fluoride have yet to receive attention. Many reports surfaced especially during the 1950’s detailing findings as to how illnesses occurred faster and were more pronounced when fluorides were combined with silica.
Biochemical knowledge has made rapid progress since the 1950s. The discovery of G proteins has led to much greater understanding of the implications in the above named diseases, so much that it has become possible to explain pathways and show how many cancers happen. Entire databases of mutated G protein receptors exist, implicated in many diseases. G proteins are the molecular "Off/On" switches involved in the control of a wide range of biological processes - protein synthesis, signal transduction pathways, cancer growth and differentiation. Thousands of studies show how AlF4- has been used to activate such G proteins and mutations in animal and human tissue. An even further increase in potentiation is to be expected by the addition of silica, which will act synergistically with such a compound.Online, the Pubmed site http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez) offers more than seven thousand citations on silica/silicon. Cancerlet, http://cnetdb.nci.nih.gov/cancerlit.shtml, offers several hundred citations regarding the association between silica/silicon exposures and cancers (also See: Greatful Med. http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi ).
The average person who drinks water fluoridated with fluorosilicates will ingest about 0.40 milligrams of molecular silicates per day. However, both the molecular fluorides and silicates are easily absorbed through the skin and are more effective as toxicants. Unobstructed, with no possibility of minerals from foodstuffs in the stomach and intestinal tract to bind them into insoluble complexes, they enter the blood stream and search out target organs. The average person may absorb more silicates and fluorides from bathing than from ingestion of fluoridated water.
While ancillary exposures are not considered in research studies regarding water fluoridation, there is a significant potential household buildup of both airborne silicates and fluorides. This can occur, over a period of time, from the mere reality of washing clothes, bedding and items such as curtains and furniture covers. Neither the submicroscopic fluorides nor the silicates turn into vapors and vanish. They will be readily caught in fabrics and released into the air at the slightest rustle.
Inhaling airborne fluorides or silicates is a more highly effective way of metabolizing these toxicants than through ingestion or even through skin absorption. When they meet lung tissues, the molecules are released into the blood stream in their search for target organs.
All research conducted on drinking water fluoridation is concerned only with direct oral ingestion, using USP grade sodium fluoride. Researchers do not consider the reality of multiple exposures to fluorides and silica/silicon such as via bathing (absorption through the skin) and continual household contamination (inhalation). Therefore, people in long-term fluoridated areas are subject to many additional sources of fluoride and silica/silicon exposure than people in non-fluoridated areas, who are nevertheless exposed, via dental products, processed food and air pollution.
Since no research has ever been carried out on the chronic effects of exposure to fluorosilicates, any claims on the safety or efficacy of these substances are specious. Several of the consequences of the absolute refusal of all responsible federal agencies to undertake or commission appropriate research are as follows:
Dementia and AD:

Senile dementia/Alzheimer’s type (SDAT) is the most common cause of intellectual decline with aging. The incidence is approximately 9 out of 10,000 people. This disorder affects women slightly more often than men and occurs primarily in older individuals.

Approximately 4 million Americans have AD. Nineteen million Americans say they have a family member with AD, and 37 million know someone with AD.

14 million Americans will have AD by the middle of the next century unless a cure or prevention is found.

Alzheimer’s disease is the fourth leading cause of death among adults.

One in 10 persons over 65 and nearly half of those over 85 have AD and it is increasingly found in people in their 40s and 50s.

A person with AD can live from three to 20 years or more from the onset of symptoms.

Dutch researchers [Elferink, 1988] found that asbestos acts synergistically with phosphate analogues on G protein activation, supplying biochemical evidence for the earlier reports from 1950. Of course, fluoride aluminum compounds are well established and most effective phosphate analogues. Their implication in AD has been reviewed in great detail. [Strunecka, 1999]
Primary Brain Tumors:

Each year approximately 100,000 people in the United States and 10,000 people in Canada will be diagnosed with a primary or metastatic brain tumor.

Brain tumors are the second leading cause of cancer death for children under age 19 and the third leading cause of cancer death for young adults ages 20-39.*

Metastatic brain tumors (cancer that spreads from other parts of the body to the brain) occur at some point in 20 to 40% of the general cancer population.**

In the United States the overall incidence of primary brain tumors is 11 to 12 per 100,000 people.***

The incidence of brain tumors is increasing, especially among the elderly. Worldwide the number of people that develop and die from brain tumors has been estimated as increasing by as much as 300%.

There are over 100 different types of brain tumors, making effective treatment very complicated.

Because brain tumors are located at the control center for thought, emotion and movement, their effects on an individual’s physical and cognitive abilities can be devastating.

At present, brain tumors are treated by surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, used either individually or in combination.

Only 37 percent of males and 52 percent of females survive five years following the diagnosis of a primary benign or malignant brain tumor.****

Brain tumors in children are different from those in adults and are often treated differently. Although as many as 60 percent of children with brain tumors will survive, they are often left with long-term side effects.

Identical G protein mutations are identified in many cancers, and have all been implicated in known aluminum/silica/fluoride poisonings. The ras oncogene-related protein (p21) is involved in 40 percent of colon cancers, and 40 percent of all cancers found in ‘Asbestosis’ and ‘Silicosis’, including osteosarcoma. (Brandt-Rauf et al, 1992). One study found that ALL human goiter nodules from different patients contained areas where the epithelial cells were morphologically grossly altered and heavily loaded with p21ras.(Studer 1992).As aluminum, silica and fluoride exist in almost all water supplies - and compound effects are so clearly demonstrated in the biochemical literature - the continued recommendation by public health officials that any of these substances should be added to the public drinking water supplies as a "health benefit" reveals an alarming degree of ignorance among so-called "recognized expert authorities". Their insistence that "only" the fluorine ion is of any concern must rank as one of the greatest examples of scientific incompetence ever visited on millions of unsuspecting people. The need for the fluoridating agent and all its components to be submitted to rigorous safety testing to prove that it is safe for human consumption is now a matter of urgency and all promotion of fluoridation should be halted until such data is available for public scrutiny.* CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. January/February 1999. Vol. 49, No. 1, p.23** Brain Tumors: A Comprehensive Text, edited by Robert Morantz and John Walsh. pp.553. Marcel Dekker, Inc. 1994.*** Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States, 1997 Annual Report
**** Central brain Tumor Registry of the United States, 1996 Annual Report

Fluoride in the wate

2006-01-17T19:14:00.000+10:30

Fluoride in the water means pollutants within the body
By DANIEL G. STOCKIN

Daniel G. Stockin, a 17-year public health professional, formerly worked for the Environmental Protection Agency, two universities and now is with The Lillie Center, Inc., a public health and environmental health services firm in Brentwood. E-mail at: dan@thelilliecenter.com.

Of late, we've once again learned that health officials sometimes change their minds about what is considered healthy and safe. The recent warnings from the Food and Drug Administration about previously approved pain medications and over-the-counter diet aids and cough suppressants demonstrate this.
Have you ever wondered what medications and health practices that we accept today will later be known to have harmed us rather than helped us? Here is one: fluoridating our drinking water to prevent cavities.

We've said for 50-plus years that fluoride is safe, effective and necessary. But now information is pouring in from around the world and the U.S. that shows that fluoridated drinking water may actually be causing many of the "diseases of aging" — hip fractures, thyroid disease and joint pain — and disorders that affect persons of all ages.
Most of the fluoride we've been injecting into our drinking water is silicofluoride, a substance that has never been tested or approved by any federal agency. It is a fluoride-containing air pollutant emission captured by smokestack "scrubber" equipment at phosphate fertilizer factories.
If it is emitted into the air, it is a pollutant; if it is discharged into a lake or river, it is a pollutant and it is regulated by EPA as a water "contaminant." But if it is in our drinking water and we ingest it into our bodies, it is somehow called a "nutrient." Because of the industrial processes and raw material used as its source, the fluoride also comes contaminated with radioactive uranium decay compounds, arsenic, lead and mercury.
"Why weren't we told this?" people ask. Well, we were … but not really. Buried in many water agencies' quality reports amongst a dizzying list of chemical names is a little-observed statement that the source of the "contaminant" fluoride is "discharge from fertilizer and aluminum factories."
The pro-fluoride people tell us the toxic fluoride, arsenic and radioactive compounds are diluted in the water, therefore they pose no harm. But what we haven't been told is that these compounds are cumulative poisons. The small amounts we ingest accumulate in our bodies and can cause bone cancer, thyroid disease, kidney damage and joint pain. If your
kidneys work well, approximately half of the fluoride you ingest goes out in your urine, but the remaining half is stored — cumulatively and potentially harmfully — in your body.
How do you feel that your body and the bodies of your loved ones are being used as the final resting place of the toxic discharges of industry? As a public health professional with a background in hazardous materials management and assessment, I can tell you that I am now firmly against fluoridation. And a growing number of other medical, dental and public health professionals are also calling for a halt to fluoridation, including 11 EPA employee unions representing 7,000 EPA scientists, lab workers and other employees across the U.S.
In 2000, dentists conceded that fluoride helps prevent cavities primarily topically, while in the mouth — not by your body's systemic absorption of the chemical. So, why continue drinking a toxic chemical throughout your whole body if its main action against cavities occurs when it touches your teeth in the mouth? To continue supporting the drinking of primarily-topically-acting fluoride would be like your doctor handing you a bottle of liquid sunscreen and telling you, "Drink this to prevent sunburn."
You and your family also receive fluoride in foods — in your cereal, bread, baby food, canned foods, tea, sodas, pasta and frozen foods (because they're made with fluoridated water), as well as from toothpaste and antibiotics. A number of government agencies are reconsidering the safety of fluoridation, and the fact that we absorb it cumulatively from so many unmonitored sources is one of the reasons for their doing so.
Large numbers of countries around the world reject water fluoridation (such as Japan, Germany, and Belgium). World Health Organization statistics show that countries with no form of fluoridation have similar drops in overall cavity rates as the United States.
The dental industry and public health agencies are fearful and defensive, and one can understand why. It is projected that the health effects and lawsuit costs from fluoridation will dwarf those of tobacco.
An increasing number of Americans believe an individual does not need to be a scientist or doctor to understand the dangers of fluoridation. It flies in the face of common sense, they say. They do what many Tennesseans who read this article may want to do: Contact their water district and governing officials and tell them, "Stop the fluoride!" •
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Found on the UK Blog about Fluoridation and many thanks to them

daily overdosing via

2006-01-10T19:50:00.000+10:30

daily overdosing via the tap
27/12/04

Dear Editor,
As the old Year draws to a close, most of us do a little reflection, and wonder about the year ahead. One thing that is a surety in the Hastings in 2005 is that unless our Councillors show civil responsibility to residents, as have Kempsey Councillors, we will have our drinking water supply polluted with the industrial grade Sodium Silicio Fluoride straight from the factories of China.

Then, all Hastings residents will be exposed to daily overdosing via the tap, no matter what precautions we take. Unless we have a Reverse Osmosis water filter, which is expensive, we will drink artificially fluoridated water; cook with it; give it to our pets; shower with it and water our gardens with it. Every cup of coffee drunk in town, at friends or relatives places and every meal cooked in local restaurants will be polluted with artificial Fluoride, which the Health Department tells us is so good for us all.

We have found that there was no point in writing to our Mayor with our concerns as when finally he answered us, we were told to talk to John Irving from the Health Department. It is apparent that John Irving now speaks for our local Mayor and Councillors. A sad state of affairs.

Port Macquarie M.P. Rob Oakeshott’s response to this important question and the large package of information we supplied him with, was just an acknowledgement of receipt. Easy does it Rob. M.P. Andrew Stoner responded by saying it was all outside his jurisdiction and suggested, “if we were still dissatisfied with Council’s actions and or response to go to the Local Government Association, or the NSW Ombudsman”. A bit late Andrew but thanks anyway. We’ve already done that and apparently its not part of their jurisdiction either.

So just who is responsible to the people?

It doesn’t bode well for 2005 that we have three easily led leaders who dodge accountability on such an important issue for Hastings residents. Will they be filtering their family’s water so that their babies or grandchildren are not overdosed by 400% each time they drink bottled milk?

Remember how wrong the Health Department was about the Privatisation of the hospital. Remember it was the ordinary people, not our leaders, who exposed so much of the skulduggery that went on to force Privatisation upon the Hastings. Remember the referendum in 1992 we had that said a loud “no” to Privatisation of the hospital. They went ahead and did it any way.

Remember the referendum on Fluoridation in 1991 which said “no”, but enough about that one; no one seems to want to talk about that. There is a time limit on democracy in the Hastings.

We live in a community where we have ineffectual leaders who bow and scrape to the first ‘circus of experts’ that come along. No one listens or talks with residents. It amazes us that our two State MP’s can so easily ignore the results of the 1991 referendum, and wash their hands of the whole shameful issue. Don’t they also represent us and live in the Hastings?

Just because its all gone quiet, only means that the machinery, which will implement Artificial Fluoridation, is grinding closer and closer to “Poison on Tap” day in November 2005. It was this quiet just before the last Council Elections also, when all involved such as the present Mayor knew what the Health Department intended.

If the day comes and the “experts” add a known toxin to our drinking water with no consultation, with no action from our two State M.P.s and we allow this then it will be remembered as a shameful day and another notch in the belt of bureaucratic dictatorship that is overriding our fast diminishing democracy.

Rob Oakeshott and Andrew Stoner have a duty to find out what the hell is really going on; delve into the curious manner this all came about; do their job properly and make noise on our behalf, and represent us, as it is obvious that our Mayor Rob Drew represents only himself and the Health Department.

On closing it must be noted that none of the proponents of Fluoridation, such as Councillors, the Mayor our State M.P.s or the Health Department, although invited have bothered to attend any of the three public meetings held to discuss the Fluoridation issue.

Yours sincerely
Therese Mackay

The Hastings Safe Wa

2006-01-08T16:11:00.000+10:30

Sugar shock - Dentists expose
Please take time to read what these long serving dentists say is the true cause of tooth decay.

What these professionals expose should encourage our Councillors and MP’s to take a real stand if they really care about the cause of tooth decay. Dr Francella explained, "I thought if we optimized topical and systemic fluoride, that we would eliminate tooth decay in 30 years. I was naive, and didn't foresee that we would be drinking battery acid by the tens of thousands of litres, thanks to the sugar lobby in the United States. And the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association have caved to them, taking grant money from the sugar industry." It is exactly the same situation in Australia.

Dr J Frachella who for the past 32 years has been a paediatric, public-health dentist at the Bangor Children's Dental Clinic, “Pure water has a pH of 7, while battery acid has a pH of 1. Here's where some popular drinks fall: Coke Classic, pH 2.3; Hawaiian Punch, pH 2.82; Gatorade, pH 2.95.”

“The soda bores a hole in the tooth, then pours sugar into it," There's not enough fluoride in the world to combat that."

Dr Mark Lausier a dentist in private practice for 28yrs said, "We're seeing a big upturn in cavities from young children to teenagers now… there was less decay 10 to 15 years ago than now, so we're assuming it's dietary in nature. We started looking at how much sugar is in different products, and we were surprised."

A display in Dr Lausier’s office contains “several shelves stocked with common foods and drinks. In front of each is a small plastic bag containing the amount of sugar found in that item… Dr Lausier and his staff put up the graphic display to boldly drive home the correlation between sugar and tooth decay.

Any rise in decay in such heavily fluoridated countries such as Australia and the US brings Fluoridation into question. Sugar and its heavy promotion is the enemy. Many parents have no idea of the sugar content of fruit juice or even bread. Dr Lausier said parents should start reading labels on foods, keeping an eye peeled for ingredients such as high-fructose corn syrup, a very common form of sugar.”We've lost track of what they're putting into the food." He said.

If as much money and zeal was applied by dentists, doctors and the Health Department into the unnecessary glut of sugars in manufactured foods that we do not traditionally expect to contain sugar, we would not have the dramatic rise in tooth decay reported recently in fluoridated Sydney.

Hastings residents should ask themselves what is the real agenda of the Health Department’s expensive Fluoridation push. Is it care for the health of the people or loyalty to the Sugar and Food Manufacturing lobbies?

Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay
President of the Hastings Safe Water Association

Please read full article below.
Full thanks to Dale McGarrigle from the Bangor Daily News http://www.bangordailynews.com/

The Hastings Safe Wa

2006-01-06T17:51:00.000+10:30

Fluoridation the UN Right of Informed Consent
The Hastings Safe Water Association
23/9/04
Dear Editor,
I would like to ensure that all Health Department Bureaucrats, doctors, dentists, councillors and residents are well aware that Fluoridation of the drinking water supply contravenes the United Nations International Covenant on Human Rights. Australia has been a signatory to this since the early 1980’s.

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 recently on this issue. In particular discussion concerned Article 7, but also Articles 10 and 19.

Article 7 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.

There are hundreds if not thousands of properly done scientific studies warning about the short and long term dangers of Fluoridation, to humans, animals and to the environment.

If the drinking water is fluoridated we are being medicated without choice as adding Sodium Silicio Fluoride or Hydro Silicic Fluoride to our water supply takes away our choice. It is virtually impossible to avoid Fluoridated water if you live in a Fluoridated community.

Reverse Osmosis Water filters are extremely wasteful of water due to their efficiency and to the difficulty of removing Fluorides. They are expensive. Also you need to filter water used in cooking, as well as drinking. Restaurants and coffee shops will not be able to properly filter all water used in cooking and making drinks, so unless you plan on staying home, you will have no choice, neither will your children have a choice at friends places or at school.

Our Health Department Bureaucrats, Doctors, Dentists and most Councillors are comfortable with acting in contravention to UN covenants and see nothing wrong with forced medication, a medication, which is in every sense of the word an experiment, without informed choice, something one person cannot give for another.

The evidence is gathering of its disastrous effects of Water Fluoridation on all living things. Litigation will follow, and is current in some places. I doubt that there are Insurers large enough in the Hastings to cover the costs, should there be accidental overdosing in the short term, or to cover the side effects that are known to all. We believe that the Hastings Council already pays out $1million in insurance costs for water, and this before Fluoridation.

We reported on the town city of Escondido in California, a short while back. Within the first 24hrs of Fluoridation they had an equipment failure in which there was a large spillage of flourosilicic acid into a containment system. The City of Escondido and the California Department of Health Services are now engaged in a Litigation Action against citizens of Escondido. It happens.

They cannot ever say in future that they did no know. They know and they have been told. What they do now is a matter for the public record.

Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay
President of the Hastings Safe Water Association

Fluoridation - ask John Irving

2006-01-05T18:44:00.000+10:30

Fluoridation accident Mason USA

2006-01-05T18:41:00.000+10:30

The Hastings Safe Water Association

4/11/05
Dear Editor,
It has been reported on November 2nd that in Mason USA a chemical feed pump malfunctioned on Friday 28th October, and was not discovered for three days. This malfunction caused a large section of the city's drinking water to be flooded with toxic levels of fluoride.
Ken Baker, superintendent of public works said “Officials caught the malfunction Monday and corrected it.”
He added that “the State Department of Environmental Quality was notified of the event and that an investigation to determine the cause of the malfunction is under way. The city's fluoride level is usually one part fluoride per million gallons of water. Over the weekend, it reached three parts per million at its highest level.”
Can the NSW Health Department and the Hastings Council give us a 100% guarantee that an accident of this sort could not happen here? Residents have the right to know and to have that guarantee.
It is disturbing to think that in the home of Fluoridation, the U.S., an accident of this sort could happen and not be detected for three days. Three parts per million is a dangerous level to ingest, for such a long time, especially when added to the environmental Pollution of Fluorides we all are exposed to today.
This is much more toxic for babies and those with chronic illness such as Kidney Disease.
To show their good faith and concern for the people of the Hastings, we ask that Mayor Drew and the General Manager of our Council Mr Smith sign a guarantee taking full financial responsibility for any injury to people or the environment caused, should an accident ever occur here in the Hastings.
Yours sincerely
Therese Mackay
President of the Hastings Safe Water Association Ph. 0265839622

Scots reject Flouridation

2006-01-03T18:24:00.000+10:30

The Hastings Safe Water Association

Dear Editor,
I am very angry at the type of coverage your paper gave our press release concerning the Scottish parliament’s rejecting Water Fluoridation.

Your readers would have read the one or two sentences you printed and have no idea why the Scottish Parliament acted as it did and with all political parties acting together to knock it on the head.

For the benefit of all Hastings residents and visitors, who are about to cop a load of dirty industrial grade fluoride in their drinking water,
‘The Scottish Executive (i.e., Scottish Parliament) has just rejected Water Fluoridation on Health, Safety, Medical Ethics and Human Rights grounds.

Controversial plans to introduce fluoride into the public water supply in Scotland are set to be abandoned, it emerged today according to the Scotsman (13/11/04). The Scottish Executive is understood to have axed the proposal in favour of better-targeted dental services. It is believed the Executive was also concerned about the implications of allowing individual local authorities to introduce the chemical into water supplies. Critics argued the fluoride plans were an infringement of freedom and were also unsafe. A source within the Executive reportedly confirmed today that fluoride measures had been shelved "for the foreseeable future".

This is relevant and your readers have the right to know this. As there are no longer any independent media in the Hastings we are forced to run our releases through your paper and other outlets. If you choose not to let residents know what is happening which is relevant, then you are creating public opinion.

We realise you can not cover all aspects of everything but Hastings residents would appreciate knowing what is happening concerning Fluoridation, as it will affect every single person living and visiting here.

We have had many phone calls this morning wanting to know why Scotland rejected Fluoridation. When we explained the reasons, callers were amazed that you had not covered such an important issue. Scotland rejected Fluoridation mainly because all parties now consider it an “abuse of human rights.”
Relevant enough?

Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay

Fluoride promoters silent

2006-01-03T18:21:00.000+10:30

The Hastings Safe Water Association

Fluoride Promoters Silent on issue of
Financial Liability for Water Fluoridation.
2/8/04
“On the 9/7/04 the Hastings Safe Water Association sent letters out to the six Councillors who handed over responsibility for Water Fluoridation to the NSW Health Department. As of yet we have received no response nor even acknowledgement from these six Councillors, Rob Drew, Rob Nardella, David Mayne, Daphne Johnston, Bob Sharpham and Adam Prussing. Said Therese Mackay

We also sent the same letter to Terry Clout and John Irving from the Mid North Coast Area Health Service and to all the Board members of that organization. To this date no acknowledgement nor written response from any of these public servants.

The same letter was sent to the Division of General Practice and to all Hastings Dentists. No response there either. Our letter contained a Declaration of good faith as the above people have all actively promoted Water Fluoridation or belong to organizations who actively promote Water Fluoridation.

“As all these people appear to believe that Water Fluoridation will do “No Harm” we are mystified by the deafening silence and lack of response from all the above.
All the above named people and bodies will bear full responsibility to the people of the Hastings should even one person suffer any harm at all from Fluoridation. Individuals remaining silent doesn’t change what they are doing, nor lesson their responsibility. President of the Hastings Safe Water Association Therese Mackay said

All the above bodies might like to consider this quote from the authors of the York Review into Fluoridation, when in 2003 they issued a press release to correct misrepresentations on their report. Their press release re-affirms that,
“We were unable to discover any reliable good-quality evidence in the fluoridation literature world-wide…the evidence about reducing inequalities in dental health was of poor quality, contradictory and unreliable. “ (McDonagh 2003)

We hope that members of the above bodies of people will have the courage to either sign our declaration, or make a stand and state openly that they are not sure enough of the total safety of Water Fluoridation to sign a legally binding document.

“If they are not prepared to sign, then their beliefs must be on very shallow and shaky ground and residents have every right to be apprehensive about those who purport to be protectors of our health here in the Hastings. Said Therese Mackay
Therese Mackay President of the Hastings Safe Water Association

Fluoridation Promoters should drink tap water too

2006-01-03T18:18:00.000+10:30

The Hastings Safe Water Association

26/8/04
Dear Editor,
We would be very interested to know when the Federal, State and Local Government bodies will remove any water filtering machine they may now use for drinking water, and discourage their employees from drinking bottled water whilst at work. As they fully support Water Fluoridation they too can partake liberally of as much Sodium Silicio Fluoride as they want, decided only on their level of thirst.

We ask the three tiers of Government to cease using bottled water or water filters or filtered water anywhere in any of their buildings or anywhere in any of their offices. We expect the same from all Government offices right across Australia. We would be more than happy to arrange collection of the Water Filters and left over bottled water.

We would then pass the filters and bottled water on to those with chronic illnesses especially Kidney disorders, who will be able to use them to filter out the fluoride so they don’t suffer any side effects at least while they are at home.

As no one from the Australian Medical Association nor anyone from the Australian Dental Association has publicly expressed concern at the addition of an industrial grade poison to our drinking water we expect that in good faith all Medical and Dental surgeries follow suit, get rid of all their filters and bottled water for collection and distribution to those who value their health but cannot afford expensive water filters or bottled water.

We expect all doctors and dentists to show good faith and remove any water filtering devices from their homes, as they should want their families to be able to drink as much Fluoride as they can, all based on the level of their thirst, not the size of their bodies or state of their health. A very scientific view from our men and women of “science”.

As no one from the Federal, State and Local Health Departments has any objection to Fluoridation, and seeks to impose it on the population, we expect them to ensure that all those who want water filters, or bottled water, where Fluoride is in the water or when Fluoridation is introduced, have free access to clean reliable drinking water.

‘Not to do so is to force “civil conscription” on the population and is unconstitutional.

We expect assurances from the three tiers of government that they will enact the above, so as not to be hypocritical.

Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay President of the Hastings Safe Water Association