End Fluoridation, say 600 Physicians, Dentists, Scientists, and Environmentalists

End Fluoridation, say 600 Physicians, Dentists, Scientists, and
Environmentalists


New York - August 9 - In a statement released today, over 600
professionals are urging Congress to stop water fluoridation until
Congressional hearings are conducted. They cite new scientific
evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is
ineffective and has serious health risks. (http://
http://www.fluorideaction.org/statem...gust.2007.html)

Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the prestigious
2006 National Research Council (NRC) panel that reported on fluoride's
toxicology, two officers in the Union representing professionals at
EPA headquarters, the President of the International Society of
Doctors for the Environment, and hundreds of medical, dental,
academic, scientific and environmental professionals, worldwide.

Signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for
Medicine, says, "Fluoridation is against all principles of modern
pharmacology. It's really obsolete."

Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director of the Fluoride Action Network
(FAN), announced that an Online Action Petition to Congress in support
of the Professionals' Statement will soon be available at FAN's web
site, www.fluorideaction.org.

"The NRC report dramatically changed scientific understanding of
fluoride's health risks," says Connett. "Government officials who
continue to promote fluoridation must testify under oath as to why
they are ignoring the powerful evidence of harm in the NRC report," he
added.

An Assistant NY State Attorney General calls the report "the most up-
to-date expert authority on the health effects of fluoride exposure."

The Professionals' Statement also references:

-- The new American Dental Association policy recommending infant
formula NOT be prepared with fluoridated water.
-- The CDC's concession that the predominant benefit of fluoride is
topical not systemic.
-- CDC data showing that dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride over-
exposure, now impacts one third of American children.
-- Major research indicating little difference in decay rates between
fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.
-- A Harvard study indicating a possible link between fluoridation and
bone cancer.
-- The silicofluoride chemicals used for fluoridation are contaminated
industrial waste and have never been FDA- approved for human
ingestion.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a DC watchdog, revealed that a
Harvard professor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection
for three years. EWG President Ken Cook states, "It is time for the US
to recognize that fluoridation has serious risks that far outweigh any
minor benefits, and unlike many other environmental issues, it's as
easy to end as turning off a valve at the water plant."

SOURCE: Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net