As an Independent member of the South Australian Parliament I am
gravely concerned about the practice of forced fluoridation.
There is so much published and peer reviewed research done on
the long-term harms of fluoride that it may well be the biggest
health fraud of our time.How many of us even knew that it was sodium fluoride that
was being put into our water supply and not the naturally
occurring calcium fluoride? And how many of us knew that sodium
fluoride was a waste product of the aluminum and phosphate
industries? Well I did not know any of this until I started
investigating for myself.
It is important that people are left to make up their own minds on
the evidence of an issue.The problem is that so many simply do not know where to
look or how to look for it and they also do not know the people
behind the information. So do we believe that governments all over
this country are literally poisoning our water supply? Well,
further on this page is compelling evidence that our water is
being poisoned, that it is for commercial gain and that government
Ministers for decades have been deceived by health officials and,
let’s face it, this wouldn’t be the first time that they have got
it wrong.It also
would not be the first time that governments have made decisions
in the interests of corporations above the interests of the people
they are paid to serve.
I have done my best to provide the most accessible evidence to
readers of this page to inform you of what has been happening in
South Australia since 1968.Research goes back more than 40 years about the harmful
effects of sodium fluoride. To read a recent a speech I made in
the Legislative Council in which I called upon the Minister for
Health to attend the Public Meeting in Mount Gambier and also provided an overview of this
research, please click
here.
To read key statements by and watch interviews with Dr W. Hurzy Phd, Dr A. K. Susheela PhD
and Dr P. Mullenix PhD, click
here. I also encourage you to read
50 Reasonsto Oppose Fluoridation by
Professor Paul Connett PhD, the director
of
Fluoride Action Network,
The Fluoride Fraudby P. Clavell Blount, the Chairman of
the London Anti-Fluoridation Campaign, and a
letter to the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy
by Douglas Cross, the Director of UK Councils Against
Fluoridation. I
also recommend a well reasoned article by D. Cross PhD and R.
Carton PhD, entitled
Fluoridation: A Violation of Medical Ethics and Human Rights,
which was published in the peer-reviewed International Journal
of Occupation Environmental Health.
Below is an email sent from Dr Doug. N. Everingham, a
former Health Minister in the Whitlam Government, sent to the
current South Australian Health Minister, Mr John Hill, in support
of a Mount Gambier resident campaigning against fluoride:
Dear SA Health Minister Hon
John Hill MP and Acting Health Minister Hon Patrick Conlan MP
I respond to the request
(copied below) of hunger striker Alex Young.
As a family doctor some 55
years ago I accepted the assurance of the (largely anglophone
countries') health professional authorities that water
fluoridation is safe. Some patients brought to my attention
works by Waldbott, former allergy section head of the US AMA,
documenting hypersensitivity to fluoride, Steyn documenting
increased incidence of endemic hypothyroidism with regional
fluoride concentration, and Professor Sir Arthur Amies, dean
of dentistry in Melbourne, documenting with Dr P R N Sutton,
epidemiological statistics exposing the failure of fluoridation
promoters to correct survey faults.
US federal authorities were
less than cautious in assessing the commercial value of finding
that fluoride waste products from aluminium and phosphate
industries became a valued commodity rather than a source of
agricultural and other legal compensation clams.
Improvements in dental caries control were often lacking in double
blind surveys, or improperly attributed to water fluoridation
while other measures (regional affluence, improving diet, dental
hygiene, and topical fluoride in dental practices and toothpaste)
were more significant, and swallowed fluoride ineffective.
There is more objective
investigation of incidence of bone and joint problems,
intellectual and other cumulative ill effects of fluoridation in
mainland Europe than in fluoridating countries. There
is a reluctance to include critical research and researchers in
official investigations, for example in the delay in Harvard's
releasing Bassin's findng of young males' osteosarcoma incidence.
However, official
recognition of hazards is improving. Fluoridated water is
not recommended for reconstituting infant milk products or for
renal dialysis.
There is a growing argument
for lowering the tolerated level of natural fluoride in water
supplies, often set at around four times the 'optimum' recommended
level.
There is still no official
recommended minimum daily total fluoride intake required to
prevent fluorosis - perfect sets of teeth are found among
fluoride-'deficient' communities, and no 'optimally' fluoridated
community is free of massive decay cases requiring general
anaesthetic dental clearances.
In my view there is a case
for ceasing fluoridation of water supplies pending surveys of
fluoride intake in particular demographic groups, statistically
sound review of unduly discredited equivocal findings of
fluoridation related incidence of adverse conditions including
dental fluorosis.
Doug. N. Everingham
MB, BS
Whitlam Government Health
Minister 1972-75
Recent Interview with Dr Doug
Everingham
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends
lowering water fluoridation levels
Due to the increased exposure to fluoride, with it being added to
many of our foods and cosmetic products not just our drinking
water, and the evidence of the accumulative effects of fluoride
consumption, including an increase of dental fluorosis amongst
adolescents, on the 7 January 2011 the U.S. Department of Helath
lowered the maximum amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water
to 0.7ppm, down from 1.2ppm. As a result, the U.S. Environment
Protection Agency has foreshadowed that it will also be revising
its guidelines on fluoride in drinking water. Below are two
Letters to the Editor of the Sunraysia Daily regarding the
lowering of the guidlines:
In the Unites States and Canada any scientist that has followed
the protocols of scientific research and found that fluoride was a
toxic substance if ingested has been treated more like a
“whistleblower” than a scientist of integrity. The European Court
ruled in May 2000 that forced fluoridation was in fact unethical
because it was a form of forced, mass medication and it was not
the business of any government to determine whether persons should
be dosed for an illness that they we may or may not suffer from.
Some people suffer from fluoride sensitivity and may suffer
adverse effects of water fluoridation such as people with kidney
dysfunction, sensitive skin, asthma and other everyday illnesses.
One of the disturbing facts about sodium fluoride – apart from it
being a highly poisonous substance found in rat poison and
pesticides – is that there are strong links between fluoride and
osteoporosis, bone cancer in young boys, disruption of the
production of important endorphins such as serotonin and melatonin
(serotonin fights off depression and melatonin regulates sleep),
dental fluorosis (pitting, staining and weakening of the structure
of the teeth), and also as a neurotoxin linked to Alzeihmer’s,
behavioural disorders and ADD/ADHD.If we stop and think about the most recent illnesses and
disorders that are not explained by modern medicine for the
increasing occurrence these are the illnesses and disorders that
we hear the most about.
Shouldn't we be given a choice?
Where is our choice? Many residents of Mount
Gambier have been asking this questions since this Labor
Government announced its decision to fluoridate the water from the
Blue Lake. The local action group, Choice Mount Gambier, has
collected over 11,000 signatures across two petitions, one of
which reads:
Choice Mount Gambier
Petition
To the Honourable the Members of the House of Assembly in
Parliament assembled -
The Petition of the undersigned
residents of Mount Gambier and Districts considering regional
difference.
Argument
We draw the attention of your Honourable House to the fact that SA
Health State Oral Health Plan Public Consultation Meeting as held
in Mount Gambier on 8 July 2005 was inadequate. Health Minister
John Hill has often referred to this meeting and the three
submissions received as alleged support for Mount Gambier Blue
Lake water supply to be fluoridated. To date only one submission
supported fluoridation.
By way of example of what should take place - S.4(1A)of the
Queensland Fluoridation of
Public Water Supplies Act 1963 allowed for provision for local
councils to conduct a poll prior to water supplies being
fluoridated:
Addition of fluorine to public water supplies
4.(1) Subject to this Act a local government may add
fluorine to any public water supply under its control.
(1A) Subsection (1) applies subject to the Local
Government Act 1993, chapter 6, part 2 so that a local
government shall not be authorised by this Act to add fluorine to
a public water supply under its control if at a poll taken
pursuant to the part the number of votes against is greater than
the number of votes in favour of the addition of fluorine to the
public water supply in question.
This good provision was not carried over in the
Queensland Water
Fluoridation Act 2008 which superseded aforementioned
Queensland Act of 1963. Brisbane was fluoridated in December 2008.
The State of South Australia has no pertinent water fluoridation
legalisation or Code of Practice. The decision to fluoridate and
thus to ingest a known toxic chemical, regardless of
concentration, has therefore been made administratively without
regards to personal autonomy or choice. By virtue of ingestion
this issue is also a consumer issue. The fluoride ion cannot be
regulated at the tap. When the fluoride ion is introduced into a
public water supply such a decision is classified as far reaching
and is attributed to clinical dosing to which the Minister has no
power.
Request
Your petitioners request that your Honourable House will urge the
Government to take immediate action in halting the development of
the Mount Gambier fluoridation plant until such a time that the
will of the Mount Gambier Community be ascertained proper by way
of a Community referendum or poll. Such a referendum or poll
should be conducted either by State or local government in a
manner that upholds community choice and good governance.
There are numerous medical and dental professionals around the
world who have spoken out (3,147 have signed a petition) because
they claim that scientific evidence on the harms of fluoride has
been ignored and/or buried to allow for the continuation of this
“outdated and unethical practice”.Some even go so far as to say that dental statistics are
“doctored” to justify the expansion of fluoridation when studies
show that the levels of tooth decay between fluoridated and non
fluoridated regions do not differ.
Interesting Fluoride Videos
The original decision to use sodium fluoride was not made after
the health benefits had been identified, in fact it was just the
opposite. We should be concerned that fluoride – a powerful and
accumulative
neurotoxin – was first sold to government by the aluminium and
superphosphate industries because the emissions from the chimney
stacks was identified as being a pollutant. Dr. Harold Hodge was
the scientist employed by the aluminum industry to sell the idea.
Did you recieve the
letter from Dr Tony Sherbon, Chief Executve of SA Health, and Dr
Anne Howe, Chief Executive of SA Water, on Saturday, 9th October,
in your Junk Mail? Are you angry that request to be heard was
brushed aside by the statement "after some
years of public discussion and consultation" or that your concerns
about fluoride being linked tothe onset of
osteosarcoma (bone cancer), impairment of the thyroid and the
pineal gland, and dental and sekeletal fluorosis, amongst other
health conditions, were ignored in the Fluoridation Fact Sheet
provided?
Ann has drafted a suggested response to Dr Sherbon and Dr Howe, that can be
download as
Microsoft Word Document.
A guide has also been prepared by
Choice Mount Gambier which can be downloaded
here.
To C.c the letter to Ann, please address it to:
Hon Ann Bressinton MLC
Parliament House, North Tce
ADELAIDE SA 5000
New Fluoride Website
A new website,
Australian Fluoride Action, has recently gone
online. The site provides summaries of and links to recent
research and hosts several informative videos and statements
from prominent professionals. It also gives you the option to
register your vote to end water fluoridation.
Fluoride in the Media
Advertiser Article: Yet another example of this
serious issue being trivialised by the media is Tory Shepherd's
article on Ann's advocacy of removing fluoride from our water
supply, entitled
Be Afraid,
There's Something Lurking in the Water. To read
responses to this article by Ann and other prominent
professionals, including Professor Paul Connett, click
here.
Below are links to recent local articles in which which
fluoridation has featured:
To read radio transcripts from
inteviews in which fluoride has been raised between since the 1
October 2010 on either 5AA 1395AM or ABC 891AM, please click
here. Below is an excerpt from an interview by Leon Byner of
Ann on the 1 October 2010:
Byner: This story is extraordinary. I’ve often said we live in a
more privatised dictatorship. We think we’re living in a democracy
… but the world is changing. Global companies and privatisation
and corporatisation are starting to rule the roost and whether we
like it or not it’s what we’re being given. Now most ordinary
people would be shocked to know that the fluoride that is put into
our water supply is not a pharmaceutical grade product but rather
a toxic waste product of the aluminium and phosphate fertiliser
industry that’s called Fluorosilic Acid. Now what is interesting …
the European court of justice has ruled that when used in water
supplies fluoride was then used as a medicine and not to improve
water quality and that mass medication was unacceptable for
reasons that you would understand. The dosage isn’t regulated for
each individual, the frequency of use is not regulated, the
necessity of the medication and so on. Now, sodium fluoride is
dumped into our water supply because there is no cheaper method of
disposal for the aluminium and phosphate industries. And yet, when
we were sold … fluoride for your teeth, we all kind of thought –
well, yeah, maybe. And there were some lone voices out there years
ago that were saying, ‘hang on a minute, you mightn’t be doing the
very smart thing’. … adverse effects to fluoride have been noted
in peer-reviewed scientific and medical papers. And these are in
the America Medical Journal. Now I mentioned a few … mental
dullness; I’ve always said, ‘what’s in the water on North
Terrace?’. This might explain it. Gastrointestinal problems. The
dental fraternity agree that dental fluorosis is caused by over
exposure to fluoride or fluoride toxicity. Increase in fractures,
hyperactivity and attention deficit. So let’s talk to the person
that rang the bell for me … Ann Bressington. … ) Leon,
Mount Gambier is due to go online for water fluoridation of their
Blue Lake at the end of October- there’s been a group down there
called Choice who are protesting about this and trying to get the
ear of the minister now for about three years. The minister has
refused to meet with them and so has the public health official –
so I was interested in this prior to that but I decided I would go
down to Mount Gambier … the angst down there is just absolutely
enormous. People just do not want this and they are going to be
forced to drink this poison. … as the rest of us are already.
(Byner: … this is a serious
allegation … we have always assumed that the fluoridation of our
water supply was for our good and for our dental health. What do
you say?) Well the research is there - … doctor AK Sheshila of
the [unclear] institute in India has written over 80 published
papers on this and has identified from her practice and her
medical career that it also has very, very harsh effects on the
unborn child. In America now they issue warnings that baby formula
should not be reconstituted with fluoridated water...
(please
click here for the full transcript).
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