NIH/EPA study finding significantly lower IQ in children of mothers exposed to higher levels of fluoride. Click Here
Survey of scientific literature indicated a causal
connection between fluoridation and bone damage (fluorosis, bone cancer,
skeletal fluorosis). Click Here
UK study which found the rate of hypothyroidism was double the rate in a fluoridated city as compared to non-fluoridated city. Click Here
Study finding patients with kidney problems cannot properly excrete fluoride. Click Here
This comprehensive review of the medical literature
(including documentation) indicates a long list of harmful health effects of
fluoride and discussion of ethical concerns regarding its use. Click Here
In 2016, a number of health, consumer, and environmental organizations (including
Fluoride Action Network and Food and Water Watch) petitioned the EPA under the
Toxic Substances Control Act, to eliminate fluoridation in drinking water due
its neurotoxic effects at the level currently designated as safe by the U.S.
government. The petition identified 76
(out of a total of 85) human studies that found an association between
cognitive decline and higher levels of fluoride in the water supply.
After
the EPA rejected their petition, the groups sued the EPA in federal court in
2017. A seven-day trial was held in
2020, but the court has yet to issue a decision, as of Oct. 2022. The next hearing on the case, after much
re-scheduling, is scheduled for Oct. 26, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for
the Northern District of California. You
can find a list of all the studies showing neurotoxic effects, and the groups'
arguments hat adding fluoridation chemicals to our water must be discontinued:
Click Here
While adding hazardous waste to our water is not beneficial to anyone, it is
particularly harmful to people with kidney disease (who can't excrete it
properly), infants (when mixed with formula it far exceeds the safe amount of
fluoride), farmworkers (already exposed to fluoride in pesticides), tea
drinkers, people taking anti-depressants, people with low thyroid, industrial
workers who are exposed to high levels of fluoride at work, and those who have
chemical sensitivities. Also adversely affected are people who drink lots of
water such as diabetics, athletes, and manual laborers. The Environmental Working Group has gone on
record as opposing fluoridation as unsafe for many population groups. Click Here
In addition to the previously listed ailments, fluoride in the water supply can cause a disfiguring condition called fluorosis or mottling of the teeth. Because black and Hispanic children are more susceptible to fluorosis, some civil rights organizations and leaders have come out against the practice.
On
July 1, 2011, The League of Latin American Citizens, the largest Hispanic
organization in the U.S., passed a resolution strongly opposing the practice of
fluoridating water supplies, in part because of the disproportionate harmful
effects on Hispanic members of the community. Click Here
Numerous studies, including a national survey by the CDC, have found that black children suffer significantly higher rates of dental fluorosis than white children. (Martinez-Mier 2010; Beltran-Aguilar 2005; Kumar 2000, 1999; Williams 1990; Butler 1985; Russell 1962).
Not only do black children suffer higher rates of fluorosis, they suffer the most severe forms of the condition, which are marked by dark brown staining and deterioration of the enamel. Black civil rights leaders in Georgia campaigned against water fluoridation due its harmful effects on black children. (See Letter from Andrew Young to Chip Rogers, Senate Majority Leader, Georgia State Capitol, March 29, 2011.)
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