It’s up to all of us to grasp this historic moment and let the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) know that its proposal of 0.7ppm fluoride in water is still too high and that fluoridation should end now. To sign-on in support of FAN’s comments, go to http://fluoridealert.org/fan-comments.html. HHS is accepting public comments on its proposal up to February 14, so please send your comments before then. Over 3,000 sign-on messages have already been sent. But we need many more (maybe a 100 times more).

2011 at a glance:

Feb 8. CANADA: Calgary City Council voted 10-3 to end 20 years of fluoridation. The combined efforts of informed council members and citizens coupled with good reporting from the Calgary Herald produced this stunning victory in a city of over one million. Jim Beck, MD, PhD, and co-author of the book, “The Case Against Fluoride,” lives in Calgary, and was at the forefront in this battle. (See today’s Calgary Herald editorial )

Feb 8. UTAH. Waterwatch of Utah challenged the Davis County Board of Health to require fluoridated public water systems to advise their users that infant formula made with with tap water could cause dental fluorosis in children.

Feb 7. OHIO. Yellow Springs City Council voted 3-1 to stop 50 years of fluoridation

Feb 7. TENNESSEE. House Speaker and 4 Legislators ask the state’s Department of Health to end its promotion of fluoridation. See press release from Dan Stockin and letter sent to the Commissioner of the Tennessee DOH.

Feb 1. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Two lawmakers have sponsored House Bill 312 that would require “public water systems which provide fluoridation to place a warning on all billing statements against fluoride-treated water for infants under the age of 12 months.”

Feb 1. ARKANSAS. Water additive bill filed in legislature subtitled the Arkansas Water Additive Accountability Act. Water operators would not be able purchase additives unless toxicological studies are available. The bill also requires disclosure of the source, i.e., country of origin of such additives.

Jan 30: U.S. Black Pastors speak out against adding fluoride to drinking water

Jan 18. NEW YORK CITY. Bill to end fluoridation in NYC by City Council member Peter Vallone.

Jan 14. U.S. National Public Radio (NPR). For the first time in memory a balanced program on fluoridation was aired on NPR – with equal time given to Dr. Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health, and Chris Neurath, Director of Research at Fluoride Action Network

Jan 11. U.S. GOVERNMENT. The Environmental Protection Agency proposes to end the use of the food fumigant sulfuryl fluoride on the grounds that Americans are over-exposed to fluoride. This was the result of an historic decision by EPA in  granting “all of the objections” submitted over six years by the Fluoride Action Network, Beyond Pesticides, and the Environmental Working Group. The three groups were aided by their terrific pro-bono counsel Perry Wallace, a law professor at American University. We expect strong opposition from Dow AgroSciences, politicians, and the agro industry

Jan 11. U.S. GOVERNMENT. The Oral Health Division of the Centers for Disease Control is being downgraded from a “division” to a “branch” of another department. The American Dental Association strongly objects as it will be losing its major PR mouthpiece - read their letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of HHS

Jan 7. U.S. GOVERNMENT. The Department of Health and Human Services proposal to lower the level of fluoride added in fluoridation schemes to 0.7 ppm because children are being overexposed to fluoride is sending shock waves around the fluoridating world.

Keep educating and organizing your community and friends and together we can win this battle!

Paul Connett
Fluoride Action Network
http://www.fluoridealert.org/

By Richard Sauerheber, Ph.D

Since 2007 Metropolitan Water District, Los Angeles has been injecting diluted toxic hazardous waste fluosilicic acid into all water for the greater Los Angeles basin as well as most cities in North San Diego County and parts of San Diego city. It has always been injected at 1.0 ppm because of the CA Department of Public Health’s orders. I wrote to the President of MWD after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services made the request to lower the nation’s water supply level to 0.7 ppm, that MWD I trust will be lowering the level immediately.

I just now calibrated the pocket tester La Motte fluoride electrode to check to see what the water level is now. I calibrated it carefully at 1.0 ppm with a standard as usual, and I am suprised and pleased to report that the water is now 0.7 ppm. It has been lowered the requested 30% and I will now write a thank you letter to President Kightlinger. I know it had noting to do with our request, but nevertheless since we requested it I’ll thank him and remind him that the actual injected level should still be zero and one day will. This seems to suggest that if the FDA ever bans the injections one day that MWD will quickly follow suit hopefully. One can hope anyway.

↓ Letter to Metropolitan Water District Los Angeles, CA ↓

Mr. Jeff Kightlinger and Mr. Ed Dymally
Metropolitan Water District
Los Angeles, CA

Dear Mr. Kightlinger and Mr. Dymally,

This is to thank the Metropolitan Water District Board for so promptly reducing the fluoride ion level in our water to 0.7 ppm here in North San Diego County that comes from the Lake Skinner treatment plant, as requested by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services January 7, 2011.  I just checked the readings with a calibrated fluoride electrode and found the level to be accurately at 0.7 ppm, thank you.

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration learns that swallowed fluoride only filters into saliva at 0.02 ppm and cannot affect teeth cavities and that what we are getting for the billions yearly spent in this country for this worthless amount in saliva is slight anemia, increased risk of Alzheimer’s from the simultaneously injected alum, and after lifelong drinking weakened bone, FDA will finally ban the injections into people to permeate the ion into all organs of the body from heart to brain in an attempt to find a tooth cavity. We will all be able to stop wasting precious funds on these chemicals.  Until that time, thanks for listening to the DHHS.

Richard Sauerheber, Ph.D., Chemistry; University of CA, San Diego; currently Palomar College, San Marcos, CA