USA - Flouride concerns are worth probing
Flouride concerns are worth probing
It's clearly a controversial thing to do, but Amesbury's Robert Desmarais deserves credit for taking the path of caution when it comes to public health.
Desmarais, the director of the town's Department of Public Works, has been concerned about residue left over in the town's water system by sodium fluoride powder that the town uses to add fluoride to its water. The town stopped adding the powder in April and still has concerns about what that residue contains. When the powder is put into the water system, about 40 percent of it doesn't dissolve as it should.
There's good reason to be concerned. The sodium fluoride comes from China, which doesn't have a particularly good track record when it comes to consumer product safety. Whether its lead in toys or poison in necklaces and toothpaste, China has been lax in enforcing the kinds of safety rules that we would expect our own nation's industries to adhere to. Fluoride used to be produced by American or Japanese companies, but they've been undersold by Chinese suppliers. Desmarais and others have pointed out that the residue wasn't present until the product was imported from China.
Amesbury has tested the residue and has not been able to determine what it is, thus the reason for halting the use of it.....................
It's clearly a controversial thing to do, but Amesbury's Robert Desmarais deserves credit for taking the path of caution when it comes to public health.
Desmarais, the director of the town's Department of Public Works, has been concerned about residue left over in the town's water system by sodium fluoride powder that the town uses to add fluoride to its water. The town stopped adding the powder in April and still has concerns about what that residue contains. When the powder is put into the water system, about 40 percent of it doesn't dissolve as it should.
There's good reason to be concerned. The sodium fluoride comes from China, which doesn't have a particularly good track record when it comes to consumer product safety. Whether its lead in toys or poison in necklaces and toothpaste, China has been lax in enforcing the kinds of safety rules that we would expect our own nation's industries to adhere to. Fluoride used to be produced by American or Japanese companies, but they've been undersold by Chinese suppliers. Desmarais and others have pointed out that the residue wasn't present until the product was imported from China.
Amesbury has tested the residue and has not been able to determine what it is, thus the reason for halting the use of it.....................
posted by Bill at
9:25 AM
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The National Academy of Sciences did a thorough review of fluoride in 2006 which documents in detail its deleterious health effects, all 500 pages are available on-line. 90% of the fluoride in our water is not medical grade sodium fluoride it is industrial waste scrubbed from phosphate fertilizer plants in Florida.
For those interested there are a number of write-ups on fluoride here,
http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/
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PDM, at 26 January, 2010
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