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Fluoride and UK Water Fluoridation

Fluoride in the UK

The practice of artificially fluoridating water supplies has been ongoing for the past sixty years, most prevalently in the US. The majority of European countries have rejected proposals for water fluoridation, whereas the British government seems to promote it.

It's a little known fact that the type of fluoride (hexofluorocilicic acid) pumped into our water is a waste product of the phosphate fertiliser industry!

Fluoride is more toxic than lead yet every effort is made to remove lead from our water supplies. Interestingly enough, the only ingredient present in rat poison is sodium fluoride. Brushing your teeth with it is one thing - it is a very good cleaning agent; ingesting it is another matter entirely. Ingestion of too much fluoride will cause all kinds of health problems: dental fluorosis (white spots on the teeth), crippling skeletal fluorosis (often misdiagnosed as arthritis). Fluoride affects areas of the brain such as the pineal gland which controls the aging process. It can also lower IQ. It affects thyroid function. It can cause symptoms not unlike fybromyalgia. The list goes on...

What is fluoride?

Fluoride is any combination of elements containing the fluoride ion. In its elemental form, fluorine is a pale yellow, highly toxic and corrosive gas. In nature, fluorine is found combined with minerals as fluorides. It is the most chemically active nonmetallic element of all the elements and also has the most reactive electro-negative ion. Because of this extreme reactivity, fluorine is never found in nature as an uncombined element. There was no U.S. commercial production of fluorine before World War II. A requirement for fluorine in the processing of uranium ores, needed for the atomic bomb, prompted its manufacture.

Fluorine compounds or fluorides are listed by the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) as among the top 20 of 275 substances that pose the most significant threat to human health. In Australia, the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) recently considered 400 substances for inclusion on the NPI reporting list. A risk ranking was given based on health and environmental hazard identification and human and environmental exposure to the substance. Some substances were grouped together at the same rank to give a total of 208 ranks. Fluoride compounds were ranked 27th out of the 208 ranks.

Fluorides are cumulative toxins. The fact that fluorides accumulate in the body is the reason that U.S. law requires the Surgeon General to set a Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for fluoride content in public water supplies as determined by the EPA. This requirement is specifically aimed at avoiding a condition known as Crippling Skeletal Fluorosis (CSF), a disease thought to progress through three stages. The MCL, designed to prevent only the third and crippling stage of this disease, is set at 4ppm or 4mg per liter. It is assumed that people will retain half of this amount (2mg), and therefore 4mg per liter is deemed "safe." Yet a daily dose of 2-8mg is known to cause the third crippling stage of CSF. In 1998 EPA scientists, whose job and legal duty it is to set the Maximum Contaminant Level, declared that this 4ppm level was set fraudulently by outside forces in a decision that omitted 90 percent of the data showing the mutagenic properties of fluoride.

The Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products, 5th Edition (1984) gives lead a toxicity rating of 3 to 4 (3 = moderately toxic, 4 = very toxic) and the EPA has set 0.015 ppm as the MCL for lead in drinking water--with a goal of 0.0ppm. The toxicity rating for fluoride is 4, yet the MCL for fluoride is currently set at 4.0ppm, over 250 times the permissible level for lead. Water Fluoridation: In 1939 a dentist named H. Trendley Dean, working for the U.S. Public Health Service, examined water from 345 communities in Texas. Dean determined that high concentrations of fluoride in the water in these areas corresponded to a high incidence of mottled teeth. This explained why dentists in the area found mottled teeth in so many of their patients. Dean also claimed that there was a lower incidence of dental cavities in communities having about 1 ppm fluoride in the water supply. Among the native residents of these areas about 10 percent developed the very mildest forms of mottled enamel ("dental fluorosis"), which Dean and others described as "beautiful white teeth."

Dean's report led to the initiation of artificial fluoridation of drinking water at 1part-per-million (ppm) in order to supply the "optimal dose" of 1mg fluoride per day--assuming that drinking four glasses of water every day would duplicate Dean's "optimal" intake for most people. Now, according to the American Dental Association, all people, rich or poor, could have "beautiful white teeth" and be free of cavities at the same time. After all, the benefits of water fluoridation had been documented "beyond any doubt." When other scientists investigated Dean's data, they did not reach the same conclusions. In fact, Dean had engaged in "selective use of data," using findings from 21 cities that supported his case while completely disregarding data from 272 other locations that did not show a correlation. In court cases Dean was forced to admit under oath that his data were invalid. In 1957 he had to admit at AMA hearings that even waters containing a mere 0.1ppm (0.1 mg/l) could cause dental fluorosis, the first visible sign of fluoride overdose. Moreover, there is not one single double-blind study to indicate that fluoridation is effective in reducing cavities.

Read more at the Weston A. Price Foundation.

Ironically...

The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates domestic bottled water for its native consumers. It seems you have a choice between fluoridated and non-fluoridated water. Believe it or not, U.S. non-fluoridated bottled water, has an allowed maximum level of up to 2.4 mg fluoride per litre, double the amount added to some UK water supplies!