tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48884241758247581632024-03-06T12:01:19.751-08:00SAY NO TO FLUORIDE AND FLUORIDATIONA focal point for anti-fluoridation groups and individuals to meet, post ideas and share and debate information.Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.comBlogger148125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-73809815844546022022012-07-20T07:08:00.000-07:002012-07-20T07:08:09.855-07:00FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
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Hello Brian
Can you help please.
The sound file (Tom Kenyons "Dimensional Attunement of the Pineal") lasts for 5 minutes but I would like the 'music' to last for 1 hour. Can you create a sound file for me by duplicating the sound file seamlessly. Is this possible?
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Joy
Hi Joy,
Sadly you find me with my electronic pants down as i am installing a brand new professional computer sound card and all its attendant software. Currently i have the sound card installed but am awaiting the return of the associated geek who is helping me achieve this..Untill this is done there is little i can do to manufacture or extend sound files. I will let you know when normal service is resumed. I will keep you posted.
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Earl Howe (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Quality), Health; Conservative)
The consultation will be on the changes we propose to make through regulations on the legal and technical aspects of the process for considering proposals for the fluoridation of drinking water as well as for the variation and termination of existing fluoridation schemes.
This consultation will be an opportunity for the department to obtain the views of local authorities, National Health Service commissioners, public health professionals, service providers, equality representatives and all other interested parties on the future arrangements for considering proposals for fluoridation schemes. The consultation, which is expected to start over the summer, will run for a period of 12 weeks.
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Written Answers - House of Lords: Fluoridation (16 Jul 2012)
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Earl Baldwin of Bewdley: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the
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Effects will declare any affiliations to the British *Fluoridation*
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Written Answers - House of Lords: Fluoridation (16 Jul 2012)
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Earl Howe: The consultation will be on the changes we propose to make
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OPINIONS IN THIS NEWSLETTER ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF FRIENDS OF THE EARTH LTD.Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-54126736079922285422012-07-15T11:50:00.003-07:002012-07-15T11:51:20.381-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Following New York City's decision to fluoridate water, the trend caught on and now upwards of two-thirds of U.S. water supplies contain fluoride. Dr. Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, a pediatrician and former Peace Corps volunteer, pointed out that kids living ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The work is being done by the company responsible for the pollution, Alliant Techsystems, with EPA oversight. During the first phase of the cleanup, the company installed wells to measure and monitor ground water contamination. Nearby residential ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ORILLIA - The city's waste management advisory committee opposes fluoridation of Orillia's water supply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A group of Wichita residents plans to ask city officials to add fluoride to the city's water supply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Midland receives fluoridation grant WNEM TV 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The city of Midland is one of 11 to receive a fluoridation equipment grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To the editor: Fluoride is the reduced form of the fluorine ion, and is scientifically documented as causing serious damage to the health of those...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">About 60 people gatheredThursday to formally announce a campaign to persuade city officials to fluoridate Wichita's public water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wichitans for Fluoridation says it has already gathered 5500 of the 6300 signatures it needs to put its measure up for a public vote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The city of Santa Fe will stop adding fluoride to its municipal drinking water after doing so since 1955.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The city of Santa Fe will stop adding fluoride to its municipal drinking water after doing so since 1955. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (http://bit.ly/M4JJnP) that the City Council made changes to instead require water ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">OPINIONS IN THIS NEWSLETTER ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF FRIENDS OF THE EARTH LTD</span></div>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-32612120229129544532012-06-09T03:06:00.000-07:002012-06-09T03:06:41.016-07:00<strong>FRIENDS OF THE EARTH</strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>This is a surprise! I thought the (pro-fluoride) PCTs were being disbanded.)</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>It may surprise the public, but there are many dental practices who are only too keen to provide an NHS dental service, but are denied the right to do this by the Primary Care Trust (PCT.) The PCT often use the argument that the practice isn’t big enough. The budgets are absorbed by the bigger, multi-surgery practices. My dentist - a person of great integrity & technical expertise, is branching out on her own from a 3-surgery practice, but she’s unable in the short term, to provide an NHS service because the local PCT won’t let her. So her existing NHS patients won’t be able to follow her to her new practice. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>By Geoffrey Dexter, BDS, West Sussex. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The US Environmental Protection Agency is looking into potential dangers related to the process, such as contaminated drinking water and air pollution. The EPA is conducting a study to determine the impact of fracking on drinking water and should ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Failures to disclose include air pollution, deteriorating infrastructure, parasite infestations, contaminated water and disease risk. Relevant information has been withheld from potential victims, scientists and the media - in some cases for almost a ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The coal company that mines the land around their home has never admitted to causing this problem, but they do supply the family with bottled water for drinking and cooking. Contaminated and colored water in has occurred in other coalfield communities ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>THE Queensland Government has outlined its expansion plan for the coal seam gas industry with a focus on reducing pollution risks and utilising greener products. Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning strategic economic projects ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>As were are aware, that tap water has chlorine in it, and most tap water has fluoride in it. Fluoride is one of the most toxic chemicals in the world. It is a product that comes from the manufacture of superphosphic fertilizer and is so toxic it can't ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The water sector should aim to cut domestic consumption by 30% per person, says the Institution of Civil Engineers</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>IF WE MUST HAVE WATER METERS FOISTED UPON US ALL, WE SHOULD NOT TOLERATE THE SO CALLED "SMART METERS" WHICH SEND CONSTANT RADIO PULSES. THIS IS YET ANOTHER FORM OF ELECTRONIC MICROWAVE POLLUTION WHICH IS HELPING TO CREATE AN ELECTRONIC FOG. MANY PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE HEALTH DANGERS OF THIS KIND OF POLLUTION AND WILL NOT ACCEPT IT WITHOUT A FIGHT. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Dentists recommend fluoridated water for reduction of tooth decay. If community water is not naturally fluoridated, fluoride may be added. Fluoride concentration of one part per million is considered safe while helping to increase the hardness of tooth ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>New oral health program targets young children</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The new program has received $303266 to provide free oral screenings and fluoride varnishing for children age 5 and younger. Application of fluoride varnish in combination with oral health education for parents has been shown to reduce the incidence of ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>West Manheim Votes to Keep Fluoride</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>West Manheim Township has asked York Water Co. to ignore a previous request to remove fluoride from the township's drinking water, but just what action York Water will take remains unclear. The township supervisors voted 4-1 Thursday night to ask York ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Fluoride chemicals flow into your body via public water supplies and food made with fluoridated water. Studies show fluoridation is harmful to health, ineffective ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>“[Water fluoridation] is inexpensive and eminently safe. It benefits children and adults for a lifetime if consumption continues. Costs of dental treatment are ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>It is appalling that our medical professionals would push for fluoride in our water without informing themselves of the dangers of ingesting it. To ignore the other side of the issue is to be ignorant of it altogether. Why don't we settle the fluoride ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The advance notice will allow people who might be taking fluoride supplements to adjust their intake. Fluoridation will start in a couple of months. The City of Newburgh was the site of some of the first fluoridation studies — its water was ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>It is appalling that our medical professionals would push for fluoride in our water without informing themselves of the dangers of ingesting it. To ignore the other side of the issue is to be ignorant of it altogether. Why don't we settle the fluoride ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>By Matt McLellan, DMD Editor: I am writing in response to two letters to the editor published Tuesday, June 5, regarding fluoride and tooth decay. Use of fluorides for the prevention and control of cavities is documented to be both safe and highly ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The Navy dentist asked me if I knew if the city where I was going had fluoride in the water. He said if is did not, to find a good dentist and have him treat my children's teeth with a fluoride compound twice a year and have him prescribe fluoride ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Is fluoridated water really that bad?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>It was fluoridated. I spent four years in the armed forces drinking fluoride-free water, and tooth care was haphazard to say the least.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Someone once said *taxation without representation* Now days some may say we have *fluoridation without representation* Is it good? Is it bad? It is supposed ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Tag Archives: Fluoridation ... Reply. Dr. Paul Connett appears on our show today to discuss ending water fluoridation in Milwaukee and across the nation!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Fluoride Debate Takes Center Stage At Milwaukee's City Hall. TODAY'S TMJ4 May. 31 ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>... change that would stop the practice of adding fluoride to Santa Fe's drinking water. The city Public Utilities Committee on Wednesday told city staff to look into "any concerns" about halting extra fluoridation to water from the city wellfield, ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>During Aspen City Council's last review of fluoride, the supporters of fluoride used propaganda, which stated that the CDC named fluoride as “one of the 10 ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The civic authority's public health department laboratory collected 116 samples of tap water from across the capital in May and found 81 of them unfit for human consumption. Contaminated with sewage content as it is, the high bacterial count in this ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The reservoir itself is exposed to environment, pollution, rain, cattle and humans, who contaminate water, he said. “Students don't like drinking hot water in a hot place, and instead drink tap water, which is how they fell ill,” he said.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>NEERI develops indigenous process to reduce high fluoride in water content</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>PTI / Mumbai/ Nagpur Jun 08, 2012, 00:49 IST The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI) has developed an indigenous and economically viable process to reduce high fluoride content in potable water, which would have domestic ...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>NEERI develops process to reduce high water fluoride content</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>PTI / Nagpur June 07, 2012, 14:55 The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has developed an indigenous and economically viable process with domestic and community applications to reduce high fluoride content in potable water.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>By Tony Bartelme Santee Cooper is violating state pollution laws by allowing arsenic to taint groundwater at its idle coal-fired power plant near Conway, according to lawsuit filed Wednesday by a coalition of environmental groups.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>IS WATER fluoridation the best method of preventing oral health problems on the Northern Rivers?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>It's a debatable point, and four Northern Rivers mayors will debate it at a live public forum on Monday, June 25.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>It's all part of a television pilot - The 4th Estate - devised by Southern Cross University Bachelor of Media Honours student Alex Lewers, and conducted similarly to ABC TV's Q&A and the SBS Insight program.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>It's a contentious issue, with the NSW Land and Environment Court recently overturning an appeal to stop Rous Water introducing fluoride into the drinking water.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Alex Lewers said The 4th Estate was aimed at restoring the media's function as political watchdog by bringing accountability back into political decision-making.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><strong></strong></span><br />Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-19159498948598089962012-06-05T13:28:00.000-07:002012-06-05T13:30:29.533-07:00FRIENDS OF THE EARTH<br />
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Is there a scientific reason why aluminium is added to so many things? Its purpose can't be the same in each case, can it? Someone had actually told me many years ago that aluminium in deodorants was rumoured to cause breast cancer. Could it be that some organisations are making a mint out of its sale and have created the demand? Could it be another case, as with fluoride, that its use is just a money-spinner for big industry? Does aluminium have to appear always in the ingredients list? Has anybody publicised its threat to our health? <br />
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Hoping for guidance. <br />
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D. Telegraph 2.6.12 “DOCTORS PUZZLED AS HUNDREDS HIT BY MYSTERY STOMACH BUG”<br />
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Scientists are investigating a large outbreak of a virulent stomach bug, which can last for months, linked to water contamination. They’ve found 267 cases since May caused by the cryptosporidium parasite. The North-East, Yorkshire, & West & East Midlands have been affected. <br />
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US poultry farmers are still using an iDear Ann, <br />
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We have been trying to tell the antifluoride people this for ages, look at our website www.ukcaf.org . My partner Doug Cross was the husband of Carole Cross and as a scientist was dealing with the Camelford crisis at the time as he realised that the official people like the water company and the Dept of Health were not doing anything. He collected samples of water and animals and arranged for them to be examined. <br />
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Doug is a member of the Lowermoor Sub-Group of the Food Standards Agency's Committee on Toxicity investigating the medical effects of the 1988 incident.. He was the first scientist to do any investigation He is a Fellow of the Society of Biology, and has been collaborating with Chris Exley for the past 8 years on identifying new victims and ensuring that the necessary post mortem samples are secured for examination - without his help Chris Exley would not have been able to do his research on Carole and other Camelford victims. . <br />
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Doug has recently posted a commentary on the significance of a new review of the link between aluminium and Alzheimer's Disease (see www.ukcaf.org) and this puts the issue firmly into perspective from the fluoridation point of view. So I am surprised that you have not mentioned this connection - it provides the most powerful argument yet against fluoridation. <br />
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It is particularly annoying to me that the antifluoride people for reasons which are difficult to fathom often take no notice of what UKCAF has on its site, we are very careful to print only what we can prove. <br />
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It is not just Doug's work that is underestimated - for the past 24 years I have worked with local councils across the country preventing new fluoridation schemes from being introduced. I worked with our local Council, Barrow in Furness, to organise all the councils in the North West in NWCAF in 1988 when an area from Carlisle to High Peak in Derbyshire was threatened with fluoridation. <br />
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This was before the days of emails and internet so it was not easy to give or arrange presentations to councils. Fluoridation was turned down in 1992 by the NW Water (United Utilities now) who decided that " we are not going to fluoridate as the councils, not we, represent the views of the majority of our customers" <br />
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On the strength of this I was immediately asked to be on the NPWA Committee and made chairman, a position I held for over 15 years. After Jane Jones died George Glasser and I continued to run the NPWA but it was becoming increasingly obvious that we had much greater power to defeat fluoridation if we concentrated our efforts via UKCAF. So we left NPWA and many of our advisors chose to leave with us and speak on behalf of the councils. <br />
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To date we have had considerable success, here are some of the results that UKCAF has obtained: <br />
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1. Exposing the sham that was the National Fluoride Information Centre at Manchester University. This led first to the Government ending their financial support, and then shutting diown the sham altogether (our website page exposing this fraud is still one of the most popular pages on the site, with worldwide visitors!). <br />
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2.Dr Sheila Gibson and I gave a successful presentation to NICE, speaking against Prof Lennon and the head of the BDA. Both left early, before the committee could finish questioning them. <br />
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3 Dr Gibson and I visited the Welsh Assembly and discussed fluoridation and gave information to all their political parties with great help from MP Peter Hain's office. <br />
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4. During the Winchester hearing before Hampshire County Council, Doug and I had a discussion with Southern Water's Chief of operations and their solicitor about the legitimacy of the planned fluoridation scheme - the solicitor did a hasty runner! <br />
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5. Later we were invited by the Chief Executive of Southern Water to discus the legal issues at the highest levels. <br />
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Last year we had a long meeting with Severn Trent's Chief Exec and Director, at which we discussed the legal issues that they face, and Dr Tony Lees told them of the very real problems of children in the West Midland who have badly damaged teeth from dental fluorosis. <br />
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6. Late last year with Dr Gibson we had a very good meeting with Scotland's most senior Health Minister in which we discussed - once agin - the legal issues involved. As a qualified solicitor, the Minister understood the points we made and said that fluoriodation will not be permitted in Scotland. <br />
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7. Behind the scenes we had highly sensitive discussions with security forces on the Isle of Man that played an important part in the Island's Tynwald throwing out all prospects of future fluoridation on the Island. <br />
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8. We were guest speakers at a meeting in Limerick, Southern Ireland, at the invitation of a very prominent Irish MEP. <br />
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9 With Dr Paul McCormick Barrister at Law, UKCAF officially represents Northen Ireland Councils Against Fluoridation with regard to to their position in debates in Westminster. <br />
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10. In collaboration with Robert Pocock, we have been exposing the incompetance and corruption in the European Commission before the European Parliament and the EC Petitions committee - by allowing Robert's Petition to stand, MEPs are now ganging up to put pressure on the EU to order the UK and Irish governments to enforce the Medicines directive with regard to fluoridation - and you know very well what THAT means! <br />
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11. The new paper in Medical Law International by Dr David Shaw, exposing the government's claim that 'fluoride is not a medicine' as nothing but a convenient 'legal fiction' is a huge step forward in establishing the validity of Doug's long-standing work on the issue of the illegitimcy of fluoridation under EC and UK law. <br />
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12. Doug's latest commentary is on the importance of the recent publications by world leaders in aluminium toxicology research (a field that he actually poineered back in the 1960s) of the role of fluoride in the absorption of aluminium and its transportation to the brain, causing Alzheimer's Disease. This relationship provides the most powerful argument yet that fluoridation cannot be permitted to continue. <br />
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I am disappointed that after so much work over more than twenty years it should apear necessary for me to have to justify myself and the work of UKCAF, But when even people working on our own side against the fluoride proponents repeatedly spparently prefer to accept the often sloppy reporting and unsound opinions of others instead of taking the trouble to read and understand our own reports and analyses, you will appreciate why we are less than impressed by the confusion that results. <br />
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Cllr Liz Vaughan. Director of UKCAF.<br />
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llegal broad-spectrum antibiotic in animal feeds that was banned for agricultural use in 2005.<br />
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It is also used for pigs & cattle feed. The antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones were banned by America’s Food & Drug Admin because their over-use is increasing possible development of drug-resistant superbugs, & yet this antibiotic was found in 8 of 12 samples of animal feeds tested. The fluoroquinolones are an important group of antibiotics (including ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin & ofloxacin) because they are first-line treatments for serious bacterial infections in humans.<br />
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(Environ Sci Technol, 46: 3795-802) <br />
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(My comment: These drugs contain fluoride. Google: ‘fluoroquinolones’ as are there is quite a lot about these fluoride drugs. The Wikipedia one on fluoroquinolones is quite good.)<br />
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Dear Ann, <br />
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We have been trying to tell the antifluoride people this for ages, look at our website www.ukcaf.org . My partner Doug Cross was the husband of Carole Cross and as a scientist was dealing with the Camelford crisis at the time as he realised that the official people like the water company and the Dept of Health were not doing anything. He collected samples of water and animals and arranged for them to be examined. <br />
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Doug is a member of the Lowermoor Sub-Group of the Food Standards Agency's Committee on Toxicity investigating the medical effects of the 1988 incident.. He was the first scientist to do any investigation He is a Fellow of the Society of Biology, and has been collaborating with Chris Exley for the past 8 years on identifying new victims and ensuring that the necessary post mortem samples are secured for examination - without his help Chris Exley would not have been able to do his research on Carole and other Camelford victims. . <br />
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Doug has recently posted a commentary on the significance of a new review of the link between aluminium and Alzheimer's Disease (see www.ukcaf.org) and this puts the issue firmly into perspective from the fluoridation point of view. So I am surprised that you have not mentioned this connection - it provides the most powerful argument yet against fluoridation. <br />
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It is particularly annoying to me that the antifluoride people for reasons which are difficult to fathom often take no notice of what UKCAF has on its site, we are very careful to print only what we can prove. <br />
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It is not just Doug's work that is underestimated - for the past 24 years I have worked with local councils across the country preventing new fluoridation schemes from being introduced. I worked with our local Council, Barrow in Furness, to organise all the councils in the North West in NWCAF in 1988 when an area from Carlisle to High Peak in Derbyshire was threatened with fluoridation. <br />
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This was before the days of emails and internet so it was not easy to give or arrange presentations to councils. Fluoridation was turned down in 1992 by the NW Water (United Utilities now) who decided that " we are not going to fluoridate as the councils, not we, represent the views of the majority of our customers" <br />
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On the strength of this I was immediately asked to be on the NPWA Committee and made chairman, a position I held for over 15 years. After Jane Jones died George Glasser and I continued to run the NPWA but it was becoming increasingly obvious that we had much greater power to defeat fluoridation if we concentrated our efforts via UKCAF. So we left NPWA and many of our advisors chose to leave with us and speak on behalf of the councils. <br />
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To date we have had considerable success, here are some of the results that UKCAF has obtained: <br />
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1. Exposing the sham that was the National Fluoride Information Centre at Manchester University. This led first to the Government ending their financial support, and then shutting diown the sham altogether (our website page exposing this fraud is still one of the most popular pages on the site, with worldwide visitors!). <br />
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2.Dr Sheila Gibson and I gave a successful presentation to NICE, speaking against Prof Lennon and the head of the BDA. Both left early, before the committee could finish questioning them. <br />
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3 Dr Gibson and I visited the Welsh Assembly and discussed fluoridation and gave information to all their political parties with great help from MP Peter Hain's office. <br />
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4. During the Winchester hearing before Hampshire County Council, Doug and I had a discussion with Southern Water's Chief of operations and their solicitor about the legitimacy of the planned fluoridation scheme - the solicitor did a hasty runner! <br />
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5. Later we were invited by the Chief Executive of Southern Water to discus the legal issues at the highest levels. <br />
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Last year we had a long meeting with Severn Trent's Chief Exec and Director, at which we discussed the legal issues that they face, and Dr Tony Lees told them of the very real problems of children in the West Midland who have badly damaged teeth from dental fluorosis. <br />
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6. Late last year with Dr Gibson we had a very good meeting with Scotland's most senior Health Minister in which we discussed - once agin - the legal issues involved. As a qualified solicitor, the Minister understood the points we made and said that fluoriodation will not be permitted in Scotland. <br />
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7. Behind the scenes we had highly sensitive discussions with security forces on the Isle of Man that played an important part in the Island's Tynwald throwing out all prospects of future fluoridation on the Island. <br />
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8. We were guest speakers at a meeting in Limerick, Southern Ireland, at the invitation of a very prominent Irish MEP. <br />
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9 With Dr Paul McCormick Barrister at Law, UKCAF officially represents Northen Ireland Councils Against Fluoridation with regard to to their position in debates in Westminster. <br />
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10. In collaboration with Robert Pocock, we have been exposing the incompetance and corruption in the European Commission before the European Parliament and the EC Petitions committee - by allowing Robert's Petition to stand, MEPs are now ganging up to put pressure on the EU to order the UK and Irish governments to enforce the Medicines directive with regard to fluoridation - and you know very well what THAT means! <br />
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11. The new paper in Medical Law International by Dr David Shaw, exposing the government's claim that 'fluoride is not a medicine' as nothing but a convenient 'legal fiction' is a huge step forward in establishing the validity of Doug's long-standing work on the issue of the illegitimcy of fluoridation under EC and UK law. <br />
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12. Doug's latest commentary is on the importance of the recent publications by world leaders in aluminium toxicology research (a field that he actually poineered back in the 1960s) of the role of fluoride in the absorption of aluminium and its transportation to the brain, causing Alzheimer's Disease. This relationship provides the most powerful argument yet that fluoridation cannot be permitted to continue. <br />
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I am disappointed that after so much work over more than twenty years it should apear necessary for me to have to justify myself and the work of UKCAF, But when even people working on our own side against the fluoride proponents repeatedly spparently prefer to accept the often sloppy reporting and unsound opinions of others instead of taking the trouble to read and understand our own reports and analyses, you will appreciate why we are less than impressed by the confusion that results. <br />
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Cllr Liz Vaughan. Director of UKCAF.<br />
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Greece and Romania were each issued witHello Ann, <br />
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Is there a scientific reason why aluminium is added to so many things? Its purpose can't be the same in each case, can it? Someone had actually told me many years ago that aluminium in deodorants was rumoured to cause breast cancer. Could it be that some organisations are making a mint out of its sale and have created the demand? Could it be another case, as with fluoride, that its use is just a money-spinner for big industry? Does aluminium have to appear always in the ingredients list? Has anybody publicised its threat to our health? <br />
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I wouldn't know where to find the answers to my questions, would you? <br />
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Hoping for guidance. <br />
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Editor: I’d like to respond to a reader’s letter regarding the perceived need to have fluoridated drinking water. I am aware of numerous studies documenting the adverse effects of ingesting fluoride. For starters, a prominent warning appears on every tube of toothpaste containing fluoride that, in the event more toothpaste than used for brushing (meaning pea size) is accidentally swallowed, medical help should be obtained or a poison control center contacted right away. Those are not idle words. Our nation’s poison control centers receive thousands of calls each year relating to the toxic effects of excessive ingestion of fluoride.<br />
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Fact is that fluoride has never been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and attempts by legislators to persuade the FDA to do the necessary tests to ascertain whether it is safe for human consumption have not borne fruit thus far. Only 3 percent of European countries fluoridate their drinking water, with 97 percent having concluded that this substance at best does not prevent cavities and at worst is toxic to their citizens. It is inexcusable in my mind to subject the population as a whole, but especially our children, to an unapproved drug.<br />
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I would consider it a violation of my right to informed consent, were fluoride to be added to my drinking water. As an aside, I am aware of scientific studies indicating that fluoride lowers children’s IQs! Maybe the fact that St. Johns County water is not fluoridated is part of our children’s educational success. In addition, about 95 percent of any fluoridated water “goes down the drain” via showers, toilets, washers, etc. Would that not be a considerable waste of resources in these economic times?<br />
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The 'legal fiction'of water fluoridation <br />
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Time to end the lie - fluoridation IS illegal, and here’s the proof. <br />
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Fluoridation’s sole claim to legitimacy is founded on the spurious claim that fluoridated water is not a medicine. If it is, then it has to be regulated as one, and that will never happen. I’ve argued that English fluoridation law is incompatible with both English and European law on foods, water supply, and medicines for years, but the stubborn pro-fluoridation lobby has repeatedly tried to dismiss my challenges. Now a heavyweight has joined the battle. He’s an academic with a formidable reputation, and works within the dental public health sector itself - and he says that fluoridated water is indeed a medicine! Now the Dept of Health has a real problem, so read all about it, and rejoice - fluoridation in the UK has just received a long overdue ‘Notice to Quit’ - now it will be fascinating to watch how the rest of the anti-fluoridation groups around the world use this crucial opinion to fight fluoridation on their own patches.<br />
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Fluoridation’s sole claim to legitimacy is founded on the spurious claim that fluoridated water is not a medicine. If it is, then it has to be regulated as one, and that will never happen. I’ve argued that English fluoridation law is incompatible with both English and European law on foods, water supply, and medicines for years, but the stubborn pro-fluoridation lobby has repeatedly tried to dismissed my challenges.<br />
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Now a heavyweight has joined the battle. He’s an academic with a formidable reputation, and works within the dental public health sector itself - and he says that fluoridated water is indeed a medicine! Now the Dept of Health has a real problem, so read all about it, and rejoice - fluoridation in the UK has just received a long overdue ‘Notice to Quit’ - now it will be fascinating to watch how the rest of the anti-fluoridation groups around the world use this crucial opinion to fight fluoridation on their own patches.<br />
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In a detailed analysis of the European and English law on medicines, foods and water fluoridation, Medical Ethics expert Dr David Shaw, Lecturer in Ethics in Dentistry at Glasgow University, concludes that the practice of water fluoridation in the UK relies entirely on ‘the legal fiction’ that it is not a medicine. This new analysis provides expert confirmation that fluoridated water must now be subject to regulation under the strict provisions of the Medicines Act.<br />
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Dr Shaw concludes that fluoridated water is indeed a medicine, and that the English law on water fluoridation “appears to contradict legislation and regulations governing food and healthcare in the UK and the EU.” For the past twelve years I have been arguing this, and Dr Shaw refers extensively to my own publications, which is why the Editor asked me to peer-review the article several weeks ago. <br />
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Classifying fluoridated water as a medicinal product requires the Dept of Health to now immediately submit a full Application for the product to be registered as a medicine. The award of a medicinal product authorization (medicinal licence) by the MHRA would certainly have to be rejected, since fluoridation’s extensive and common adverse side-effects and totally inadequate safety margin are well-known and a matter of considerable concern.<br />
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Water companies that continue to operate existing fluoridation plants in the UK, as well as those such as Southern Water faced with an order to fluoridate, now need to take immediate legal advice - manufacturing and supplying a medicinal product for which no license is in force is a serious violation of the medicinal legislation.<br />
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And for those stubborn bureaucrats at the South Central Strategic Health Authority who are still trying to fluoridate Southampton before their impending abolition, they must now be called before the Southampton city council (and other interested councils) to explain to the Councils and public just what authority they imagine they have to continue to attempt to impose their unethical and illegal mass medication on the people of that City.<br />
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Dr. David Shaw. Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth: The legal fiction of water fluoridation. Medical Law International 2012 12: 11 Published online 14 March 2012 The online abstract for this article can be found at: http://mli.sagepub.com/content/12/1/11 <br />
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The new paradigm - aluminium is responsible for two of our greatest threats to public health - and fluoride promotes one of them. <br />
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Alzheimer’s & dementia should not be written off by medics & the authorities as just being the result of ageing.<br />
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Dr Chris Exley, a world-renowned aluminium expert of Keele University has done work on the dangers of aluminium on the brain. I'm concerned about aluminium being added to tap water to clarify it & make it look sparkling - whereas in the past water was filtered through harmless sand to make it clear.<br />
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No-one ever asks why there is so much dementia now - they just put it down to an ageing population. But until the 1970s ordinary people had never heard of Alzheimer's. There was a TV documentary in about 1979 by Dr Jonathan Miller telling us that his mother had a terrible disease called Alzheimer’s. This programme was billed as "a revelation" as few knew such a disease even existed! That shows that something new has happened, which I believe may be the effects of large amounts of aluminium in food additives & in tap water, which the body absorbs easily from this liquid form. In 1988, one of the UK’s most notorious pollution disasters occurred. At a water treatment works on the edge of Bodmin Moor, 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate got into the water supply serving the nearby town of Camelford in Cornwall. Years of bitter disputes followed, with people who drank the water complaining of health problems. There were accusations of a cover-up – and, in 2004, the death of 58-year old Carole Cross, a Camelford resident, who died from a rare and aggressive form of Alzheimer’s. Her brain contained unusually high levels of aluminium - 23 mcgs of aluminium per gram of brain, compared to normal levels of 0‑2mcg. Prof Exley said aluminium is now added to or used in much of what we eat, drink, inject or absorb. At high levels, it is an established neurotoxin. He says “Hundreds of publications demonstrate that aluminium is not safe, but the accumulation of aluminium in the body has yet to become the subject of serious investigation.” Exley, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Keele University, has been researching aluminium for over 25 years. He has contributed to scores of peer-reviewed papers & publications. In the form of salts, aluminium has been used as a food additive. “Aluminium sulphate is added to our water to improve clarity,” says Prof Exley. “All foods that need raising agents or additives, such as cakes and biscuits, contain aluminium. Children’s sweets can contain aluminium-enhanced food colouring. It is in most processed foods….It is in cosmetics, sunscreens & antiperspirants, as well as being used as a buffering agent in medications like aspirin and antacids. It is even used in vaccines. We know aluminium can be toxic, yet there is no legislation to govern how much of it is present in anything, apart from drinking water. When the amount of aluminium consumed exceeds the body’s capacity to excrete it, the excess is then deposited in various tissues, including nerves, brain, bone, liver, heart, spleen and muscle” he explains. Prof Exley’s research has covered everything from the potential dangers of aluminium in antiperspirants & sunscreen to the high levels in vaccines & infant milk formula. In one study, his team tested 16 of the UK’s leading formula baby milk brands. The results, published in 2010, showed that traces of the metal exceeded the levels legally allowed in water, & in some cases were more than 40 times that found in breast milk. “Everyone has some aluminium in their bodies, but infants below the age of 6 months are especially prone to absorbing it & not so good at getting rid of it,” he says. His research has led him to believe that accumulation of aluminium in the body is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease & may be linked to other neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s & multiple sclerosis. “Carole Cross died of a type of Alzheimer’s - congophilic amyloid angiopathy (CAA), an aggressive form that is extremely rare & practically unheard of for someone her age,” he says. “Her case demonstrates aluminium’s potential to aggravate & possibly accelerate on-going disease. There is little doubt in my mind that the huge amounts of aluminium in her brain contributed significantly to the early onset of the condition.” Aluminium is used in 80% of vaccines as an adjuvant (to increase the vaccine’s effectiveness), which concerns Prof Exley. “Our research is looking at whether aluminium can cause an adverse reaction to a vaccine,” he says. “Most children get about 14 vaccinations before the age of 13, so in susceptible individuals this could constitute an unacceptably high aluminium load.” <br />
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Diane Benford of the Chemical Risk Assessment Unit at the Food Standards Agency, does concede that “some small groups of the UK population may now be consuming more than the safety guideline amount of aluminium. She adds that measures to reduce aluminium in foods are being implemented by the EU. A recommended tolerable intake was recently set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) at 2 mgs per kg of body weight per week. But Prof Exley says: “If my colleagues around the world are unable to come up with safe tolerable levels of aluminium, then how can the WHO? … I am simply concerned about its ubiquity – in water, food packaging, vaccines, the drugs we take & food & drink. We are living in the Aluminium Age and we need to be aware of how much we are ingesting.” <br />
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What happened at Camelford? In July 1988, a relief lorry driver mistakenly added 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate to drinking water at the Lowermoor treatment works near Camelford. There were hundreds of complaints about foul-tasting water on the night of the incident & South West Water Authority was criticised for not issuing a warning to the public for 3 weeks. The authority was eventually fined £10,000 & paid out over £500,000 in damages or compensation. Short-term health problems reported by residents included urinary complaints, skin problems, stomach cramps, joint pains and diarrhoea. Other complaints included fatigue, memory loss & premature ageing. A 1999 report in the ‘British Medical Journal’ concluded that some people suffered “considerable damage” to their brain function. The inquest into Mrs Cross’s death was adjourned twice. In 2008, coroner Michael Rose said the government had refused to assist research into the hypothesis of a link between the aluminium in her brain and her illness & asked police to look into “allegations of a cover-up”. <br />
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The ubiquitous (ever present) metal. Aluminium can migrate to food from aluminium cookware & packaging materials such as foil & cartons. A study found that around 20% of aluminium in the diet came from the use of aluminium cookware & foil. Tomatoes, rhubarb, cabbage & many soft fruits should not be cooked in aluminium pans. Bread & bakery products contain relatively high levels of added aluminium salts. Other products with added aluminium include fizzy drinks, sweets, antiperspirants, some processed cheeses, toothpaste, sunscreen, talcs, cosmetics, some over‑the-counter medications & vaccines. It is found as a contaminant in baby milk formulas. Ann Wills.<br />
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Dr Chris Exley, a world-renowned aluminium expert of Keele University has done work on the dangers of aluminium on the brain. I'm concerned about aluminium being added to tap water to clarify it & make it look sparkling - whereas in the past water was filtered through harmless sand to make it clear.<br />
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No-one ever asks why there is so much dementia now - they just put it down to an ageing population. But until the 1970s ordinary people had never heard of Alzheimer's. There was a TV documentary in about 1979 by Dr Jonathan Miller telling us that his mother had a terrible disease called Alzheimer’s. This programme was billed as "a revelation" as few knew such a disease even existed! That shows that something new has happened, which I believe may be the effects of large amounts of aluminium in food additives & in tap water, which the body absorbs easily from this liquid form. In 1988, one of the UK’s most notorious pollution disasters occurred. At a water treatment works on the edge of Bodmin Moor, 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate got into the water supply serving the nearby town of Camelford in Cornwall. Years of bitter disputes followed, with people who drank the water complaining of health problems. There were accusations of a cover-up – and, in 2004, the death of 58-year old Carole Cross, a Camelford resident, who died from a rare and aggressive form of Alzheimer’s. Her brain contained unusually high levels of aluminium - 23 mcgs of aluminium per gram of brain, compared to normal levels of 0‑2mcg. Prof Exley said aluminium is now added to or used in much of what we eat, drink, inject or absorb. At high levels, it is an established neurotoxin. He says “Hundreds of publications demonstrate that aluminium is not safe, but the accumulation of aluminium in the body has yet to become the subject of serious investigation.” Exley, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Keele University, has been researching aluminium for over 25 years. He has contributed to scores of peer-reviewed papers & publications. In the form of salts, aluminium has been used as a food additive. “Aluminium sulphate is added to our water to improve clarity,” says Prof Exley. “All foods that need raising agents or additives, such as cakes and biscuits, contain aluminium. Children’s sweets can contain aluminium-enhanced food colouring. It is in most processed foods….It is in cosmetics, sunscreens & antiperspirants, as well as being used as a buffering agent in medications like aspirin and antacids. It is even used in vaccines. We know aluminium can be toxic, yet there is no legislation to govern how much of it is present in anything, apart from drinking water. When the amount of aluminium consumed exceeds the body’s capacity to excrete it, the excess is then deposited in various tissues, including nerves, brain, bone, liver, heart, spleen and muscle” he explains. Prof Exley’s research has covered everything from the potential dangers of aluminium in antiperspirants & sunscreen to the high levels in vaccines & infant milk formula. In one study, his team tested 16 of the UK’s leading formula baby milk brands. The results, published in 2010, showed that traces of the metal exceeded the levels legally allowed in water, & in some cases were more than 40 times that found in breast milk. “Everyone has some aluminium in their bodies, but infants below the age of 6 months are especially prone to absorbing it & not so good at getting rid of it,” he says. His research has led him to believe that accumulation of aluminium in the body is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease & may be linked to other neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s & multiple sclerosis. “Carole Cross died of a type of Alzheimer’s - congophilic amyloid angiopathy (CAA), an aggressive form that is extremely rare & practically unheard of for someone her age,” he says. “Her case demonstrates aluminium’s potential to aggravate & possibly accelerate on-going disease. There is little doubt in my mind that the huge amounts of aluminium in her brain contributed significantly to the early onset of the condition.” Aluminium is used in 80% of vaccines as an adjuvant (to increase the vaccine’s effectiveness), which concerns Prof Exley. “Our research is looking at whether aluminium can cause an adverse reaction to a vaccine,” he says. “Most children get about 14 vaccinations before the age of 13, so in susceptible individuals this could constitute an unacceptably high aluminium load.” <br />
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Diane Benford of the Chemical Risk Assessment Unit at the Food Standards Agency, does concede that “some small groups of the UK population may now be consuming more than the safety guideline amount of aluminium. She adds that measures to reduce aluminium in foods are being implemented by the EU. A recommended tolerable intake was recently set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) at 2 mgs per kg of body weight per week. But Prof Exley says: “If my colleagues around the world are unable to come up with safe tolerable levels of aluminium, then how can the WHO? … I am simply concerned about its ubiquity – in water, food packaging, vaccines, the drugs we take & food & drink. We are living in the Aluminium Age and we need to be aware of how much we are ingesting.” <br />
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What happened at Camelford? In July 1988, a relief lorry driver mistakenly added 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate to drinking water at the Lowermoor treatment works near Camelford. There were hundreds of complaints about foul-tasting water on the night of the incident & South West Water Authority was criticised for not issuing a warning to the public for 3 weeks. The authority was eventually fined £10,000 & paid out over £500,000 in damages or compensation. Short-term health problems reported by residents included urinary complaints, skin problems, stomach cramps, joint pains and diarrhoea. Other complaints included fatigue, memory loss & premature ageing. A 1999 report in the ‘British Medical Journal’ concluded that some people suffered “considerable damage” to their brain function. The inquest into Mrs Cross’s death was adjourned twice. In 2008, coroner Michael Rose said the government had refused to assist research into the hypothesis of a link between the aluminium in her brain and her illness & asked police to look into “allegations of a cover-up”. <br />
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The ubiquitous (ever present) metal. Aluminium can migrate to food from aluminium cookware & packaging materials such as foil & cartons. A study found that around 20% of aluminium in the diet came from the use of aluminium cookware & foil. Tomatoes, rhubarb, cabbage & many soft fruits should not be cooked in aluminium pans. Bread & bakery products contain relatively high levels of added aluminium salts. Other products with added aluminium include fizzy drinks, sweets, antiperspirants, some processed cheeses, toothpaste, sunscreen, talcs, cosmetics, some over‑the-counter medications & vaccines. It is found as a contaminant in baby milk formulas. Ann Wills.<br />
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Exceeding his authority by a spectacular margin, Edwin Poots, Minister for Health in Northern Ireland, last week claimed (predictably) that the children there have ‘the worst teeth in Europe’ and that he therefore planned to introduce fluoridation to combat this scourge. He has no idea what he has taken on - UKCAF for a start!<br />
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Now he needs to wake up from his dream world and do a little essential homework! The Water (Fluoridation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, was repealed back in 2009, and the new legislation enabling fluoridation in England contains no specific provision for the fluoridation clauses in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to extend the new arrangement to Northern Ireland. It's time for him to read Dr Shaw's analysis of the 'legal fiction' on which his potty project depends (see our story above)<br />
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Poots' potty plan to impose water fluoridation in Northern Ireland has no legal legs! <br />
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20th May 2010 <br />
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Exceeding his authority by a spectacular margin, Edwin Poots, Minister for Health in Northern Ireland, last week claimed (predictably) that the children there have ‘the worst teeth in Europe’ and that he therefore planned to introduce fluoridation to combat this scourge. He has no idea what he has taken on - UKCAF for a start!<br />
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Now he needs to wake up from his dream world and do a little essential homework! The Water (Fluoridation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, was repealed back in 2009, and the new legislation enabling fluoridation in England contains no specific provision for the fluoridation clauses in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to extend the new arrangement to Northern Ireland.<br />
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A ‘Legislative Consent Motion’ of the NI Assembly on 8th March 2011, resolved to ‘cooperate with bodies exercising functions in relation to public health’ with respect to the application of certain functions of the new English Health and Social Care Act. As seems to be government policy nowadays, the wording of the new Act conveniently fails to specify precisely what these ‘certain functions’ might include.<br />
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Mr Poots’ ambition appears to be rather larger than his actual Ministerial Brief. He seems to be blissfully unaware that virtually every Council in Northern Ireland has a policy against fluoridation - we know, they joined UKCAF almost 20 years ago!<br />
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Councillors in the Six Counties are only too well aware of the disastrous effects that this practice has had on children across the border. Their children may have marginally less healthy teeth than those in the Republic - and where is your impartial and reliable evidence of that, then, Mr Poots? - but they certainly don’t fancy the kids getting an entirely avoidable and unwanted new epidemic of the disfiguring dental fluorosis that the dental public health officials and so-called ‘researchers’ in the Republic are so anxious to avoid talking about in public.<br />
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And of course, Mr Poots appears to be blissfully unaware of Dr Shaw’s conclusion that fluoridation is founded on a ‘legal fiction’, and so is illegal! So will he now back off and wait until the lawyers have ruled on whether his plan is actually lawful, or will he try to follow South Central Strategic Health Authority’s ill-advised lead and attempt to impose his idiot plan before he too is eventually abolished? We will watch to see how this little farce develops with considerable amusement!<br />
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Meanwhile, here is our letter to him, gently pointing out that he needs to take his advisers’ submissions on medical matters with a larger pinch of salt that he seems accustomed to applying at present!<br />
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Report prompts councils to call for public review of water fluoridation<br />
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In a 360-page report, Bandon-based environmental auditor Declan Waugh found that babies fed with formula mixed with fluoridated water were at particular risk. “No child under the age of three should be exposed to fluoride,” he said.<br />
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Forced fluoridation<br />
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The Board of Directors voted at their meeting on Tuesday, May 21, 2012, to begin fluoridation of Pine Island drinking water. This meeting was held without proper notice as the only attempt to notify members was a brief article published in the Pine ...<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">USA AND CANADA</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>New ad campaign rolls out to fluoridate Wichita's water</strong></span><br />
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Wichitans for Healthy Teeth, a coalition of doctors and dentists, and the Kansas Health Foundation say more fluoride in Wichita’s water would be less costly than treating tooth decay down the road. The foundation is rolling out an ad campaign ...<br />
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By Robert Marin KWCH 12 Eyewitness News It is a controversial issues that has come up in Wichita for years; now, expect to see new efforst pushing for fluoridated water. Educational campaigns on fluoridiation start this week from the Kansas Health ...<br />
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The Health Benefits Of Fluoride Toothpaste <br />
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I use Act Anticavity fluoride rinse (alcohol free) twice a day. The bottle says to ... I sometimes use it twice a day. Alcohol free fluoride is better for you than Listerine.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Fluoride is not needed to make our water safer</strong></span><br />
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GPIWA to add fluoride to water system<br />
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Pine Island Eagle<br />
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"The board feels that fluoride is a beneficial nutrient to the community," Thatcher said, because it can eliminate tooth decay and improve dental health. "It is good for children and aging adults." Vice President Dennis Ward of St. James City brought ...<br />
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7 Healthcast: Sensitive teeth<br />
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"If you want to whiten with some toothpaste, you just have to use ones with sodium fluoride in there," said Dr. Tau. The most popular one is Sensodyne. And make sure sodium fluoride is in your mouthwash, as well. Another easy fix is to switch to a soft ...<br />
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Thursday, May 31, 2012 • John Jones <br />
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TOPICS ranging from cycleways to the fluoridation of the city’s water supply occupied Gisborne District Council as it wound up three days of submissions on its draft ten-year plan yesterday.<br />
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Support for major projects such as the Olympic Pool replacement, library extensions, War Memorial Theatre and Tairawhiti Navigation Project were included in the submissions made by more than 20 people.<br />
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The council began deciding on the submissions today.<br />
Murray Owen said the council should start planning now to encourage bicycles as a major form of transport as oil became more expensive and environmentally difficult to extract.<br />
During the school rush hours in the morning and afternoon, some footpaths could become cycle-only to relieve congestion. It would take 20 years to provide all the walkways and cycleways needed so planning should start this financial year.<br />
Bob Hughes said many would-be cyclists told him fear of traffic kept them from cycling, and two cyclists had reported incidents of aggression to him. He hoped the council would be willing to launch the concept of safer streets in the city.<br />
A further submission against the proposed river channel maintenance rate was made by Sandra Ellmers.<br />
Another submission against the proposed stormwater rate was made by Andrew Donaldson, who said using capital value to set the rate was a blunt instrument. He suggested the council base the rate on the value of improvements but was told the council’s software could not cope with that at present. The threshold of $800,000 for the remission was still too high he said.<br />
Supporting the pool upgrade, Brian Milligan said all Gisborne people should learn to swim because if the Waipaoa River ran amok they would need to. He urged the council to think again about not going ahead with the flood control scheme, saying the river was a sleeping giant waiting to strike.<br />
Geoff Milner, of Horouta Sports Club, asked the council to signal it was prepared to provide support of $750,000 for the Kaiti sports hub and youth hub. They would also welcome the opportunity to review a targeted rate for the Kaiti community and infrastructure was needed at Waikirikiri reserve.<br />
In a detailed submission that she said was a peer review of the council’s draft plan, Dr Amber Dunn said the vision in the plan was weak. It did not sufficiently describe the uniqueness of the district. Gisborne provided a fabulous lifestyle and was culturally rich. A lot of that information was not captured in the plan. The vision First to See the Light did not do it.<br />
She also expressed concern about the effect oil exploration might have on the district’s land-based industries.<br />
Grant Vincent said the plan seemed to be urban-based. The 11 percent the council spent on environment policy and services seemed low to him. He would like to see more work but realised funds were limited.<br />
Tairawhiti Positive Ageing speakers said the council should be aware the number of people over 65 was increasing and it should keep their ongoing welfare in mind.<br />
Surf Lifesaving New Zealand sought an increase of $12,000 in its grant from the council, pointing out that patrols had saved 26 lives.<br />
Bridget Scully called for a more sustainable approach to the environment of the region, with more water tanks in urban areas. She supported a user pays charge for water, particularly commercial ones, and food supply security. She was prepared to work on a food map.<br />
Kanakanaia resident Andrew Kirk showed a short video, The Way Forward, outlining the benefits of a hemp industry.<br />
Cynthia Dobson said driftwood on Waikanae Beach was an accident waiting to happen and wondered whether PE workers could be used to remove it or the Fire Brigade could supervise burning.<br />
Resident Ray Moleta said Roberts Road was a disgrace.<br />
Motel owner Peter Martin said guests, including those from overseas, told him the beach should be left as it was.<br />
The youngest submitter, seven-year-old Olivia Gaddum, wanted the council to build a confidence course at the Olympic Park similar to the one at Spa Park in Taupo. She followed mother Kirsty, who was one of the speakers calling for strong controls on oil exploration.<br />
The council was asked by Treivaan and Kath Taiapa to stop fluoridation of the city water supply. Treivaan said very few countries now fluoridated the water supply. Kath said it was mass medication and people had no choice.<br />
Pavillion-area water users to hear options<br />
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State officials are inviting discussion in the Pavillion area concerning proposals to deliver clean drinking water to residents several miles east of town affected by possible contamination from energy industry activity. Representatives of Gov.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Illinois sues Wood River, alleging water pollution</span></strong><br />
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan sued current and past owners of Phillips 66's Wood River, Illinois, refinery on Tuesday, alleging the ground water in the nearby town of Roxana, Illinois, was contaminated by the plant.<br />
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Drinking water and cancer? Local group examining link<br />
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As soon as the TCE was discovered, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPA) and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) began working to identify the contaminated wells. Today a maximum of 5 parts per billion (ppb) of TCE is allowed in the water.<br />
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Water Pollution Major Health Threat To Indian Children: Unicef<br />
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, May 30 (Bernama) -- Water contamination posed a serious threat to children worldwide and around 1.5 million under-age children died due to diarrhea and other water-borne diseases every year, Press Trust of India (PTI) ...<br />
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North Haledon to hold meeting on contaminated wells<br />
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BY JUSTIN ZAREMBA Environmental testing has confirmed that 23 wells in North Haledon are contaminated with a carcinogenic chemical but the source and extent of the pollution remains unknown, according to the New Jersey Department of Environmental ...<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>EPA Findings Point to Water Contamination from Hydraulic Fracturing</strong></span><br />
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By Guest Contributor On May 29, 2012 Recent US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ) findings have raised awareness of potentially harmful levels of water contamination that may be the result of hydraulic fracturing. Lawsuits from individuals who ...<br />
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Expert issues warning vs 'unsafe' bottled water<br />
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She said water, to be considered safe, should pass the Philippine Standard for Drinking Water. There are various types of pollutants in water, such as water-treatment chemicals, fertilizer pollution, drugs, synthetic chemicals, bacterial contamination, ...<br />
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Can fungi clean up a Superfund site? They're giving it a try<br />
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Even so, this effort reflects the growing interest in trying to employ fungi, members of nature's own cleanup crew, to get rid of pollution. How nature can clean up after us Filter feeders such as oysters can remove contaminants from water; ...<br />
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Alderman Calls for Ending Fluordiation of Milwaukee's Drinking Water, Citing ...<br />
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Several dentists and medical professionals showed up at Ald. Bohl's press conference and spoke to reporters afterward about the benefits of fluoridated water. Matt Crespin is associate director of the Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin.<br />
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Expert: Dental health just as important for infants as it is for adults<br />
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Whitesides also recommends once kids are old enough to swish and spit using a fluoride rinse, as well. But don't eat or drink afterward or it defeats the purpose of coating your teeth with the fluoride. Fluoride helps keep your teeth strong.<br />
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Groups push to fluoridate Wichita's water<br />
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Kansas.com<br />
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WICHITA — The push to fluoridate Wichita's water is on again with two groups launching campaigns to improve oral health. Wichitans for Healthy Teeth, a coalition of doctors and dentists, and the Kansas Health Foundation say more fluoride in Wichita's ...<br />
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Take the fluoride out of our tap water<br />
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Sir: Other municipalities are removing fluoride from their water. I won't say “drinking water,” because we are actually filling our birdbaths with fluoridated water, filling our pools with fluoridated water, bathing and showering in fluoridated water, ...<br />
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Fluoride Free Toothpaste And also Precisely how To Decide on The Right Ones ...<br />
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If you have actually been going shopping just recently, then you know there is a great quantity of products for textured organic hair consisting of Zambroza. Deciding on the perfect ones could be an obstacle, especially if you are simply starting.<br />
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Surgical Arts Blog » fluoridated water<br />
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NYC: Vallone calls for an end to fluoridation In NYC<br />
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Milwaukee review: No reason to remove fluoride from water<br />
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MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee Health Department review of research and relevant studies on water fluoridation shows there's no reason to remove fluoride from the city's drinking water. The review was conducted in response to Alderman Jim Bohl's proposal to ...<br />
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Milwaukee Ald. Jim Bohl at a news conference later this morning is expected to call for an end to fluoridating Milwaukee's drinking water, and to use the ...<br />
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Improper brushing technique can cause long-term problems<br />
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“There are also some fluoride varnishes that are available now that the hygienist can paint on the teeth before or after the cleaning,” said Mady. “There are also really excellent fluoride rinses that are available by prescription only.<br />
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Of interest in the April 5 Chronicle was the report that Gallatin County is the healthiest in Montana for the third year running.<br />
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Dr. Jason Eberhart-Phillips: Are toxins on tap in our drinking water?<br />
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Because no maximum allowable levels have been established for any of these contaminants in drinking water, they are legally permissible in any amount — even at levels that may, over time, endanger the health of some consumers, the EWG says.<br />
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Debate flares up about Milwaukee's fluoridated water<br />
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Fluoridated Water News - Dr Paul Connett Interview - YouTube<br />
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Fluoride Lowers Your IQ -- A Debated Truth? - posted in Science & Technology: Controversy revolving around the addition of fluoride in drinking water.<br />
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NIGER: In deep water<br />
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JOHANNESBURG, 30 May 2012 (IRIN) - Right now, people in Niger, Mali and Nigeria could be sipping 50000-year-old water from a two-aquifer system buried below their feet. But some of it may be contaminated. A combination of soaring temperatures, ...<br />
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Fluoridation poll decision to be left to new council<br />
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Port Macquarie/ Hastings Council has resolved to delay further discussion on a community poll on fluoridation of the Port Macquarie-Hastings water supply until after the Local Government Elections, with the decision to be determined by the newly elected Council. <br />
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Port Macquarie-Hastings Council General Manager Tony Hayward said while it was important to gauge community opinion on fluoridation of the town’s water supply, the poll must be held at an appropriate time. <br />
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A new Council will be elected to replace the current Administrator at the Local Government Election in September 2012. <br />
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“Having not had an elected Council for more than four years, it may be considered inappropriate to table what might be deemed a significant issue for the newly elected Council to manage,” Mr Hayward said. <br />
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“It is more appropriate for the newly elected incoming Council to consider the issue and determine whether a community poll is required.” <br />
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Mr Hayward advised that a poll can be scheduled outside of the Local Government Election. <br />
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“Even taking into consideration that the costs associated with running a poll at a later date will be greater, it is a more appropriate course of action for the newly elected Council to determine whether a community poll is necessary,” Mr Hayward said. <br />
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Construction of the $1.78 million fluoridation plant at Wauchope was completed in late 2011 following a directive by the NSW Ministry of Health to Council in 2004 to fluoridate the Hastings district water supply. Fluoridation of the water supply commenced in February 2012. <br />
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Council Administrator Neil Porter has previously advised the community that Council will not support the conduct of a poll in conjunction with the September elections. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>I can see some of the arguments about water metering helping to save water but water is rather expensive when metered. It may be ok for those on a decent income but for people on benefits and pensions their income is generally inflexibly low and they may need to skimp on usage which can result in health risks. If you really want to save some water why not use a bucket of grey water from your bath to flush the toilet. Another issus is the growing threat from so called "smart meters" ~These use a system of constantly updated pulse generated radio signals similar to mobile phones but although you can turn off your cell and radio phones, you wont be able to do this with smart meters and the health issues associated with them are not fully understood. If they can do it for water meters, they are bound to want to use this system on electric and gas meters as well resulted in a constant bombardment from your meters and those of your neighbours. We must be give the right to opt in to thses systems and not be compelled. My message is simple no compulsion with smart meters and use less water. more info here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/9099149/Are-smart-meters-worth-it.html</strong></span><br />
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<br />Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-59917503229061274052012-01-04T09:51:00.000-08:002012-01-04T09:56:46.634-08:00RICK SANTORUM, WHAT A PIECE OF SHITE HE IS<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">This presidential contender said today that it was the UK NHS which prevented Thatcher from doing to the UK what Reagan did to the USA. Clearly a complete and conceited twat. I hope on behalf of the American lower and middle classes that he never becomes the US president. People in the US are suffering more than enough because of Senator Sanctimonious and his ilk, may he never take power, hes a real piece of ordure which we can all do without. Its amazing just how much shite people will spout just to take power and further exploit people who have so little in the first place, Fuck off back to Uncle Sams land of exploitersl and i hope his boat sinks with all hands if they are the people who are seeking power over there. What a bunch of shitheads they are.</span> </strong></span></div>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-41977157350811786372011-12-27T00:46:00.000-08:002011-12-27T01:01:31.510-08:00FLUORIDE, THE NEVER ENDING STORYMonday, December 26, 2011<br />
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</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">This week, an Official in France has warned against their breast implants. Poly Implant Prothese made by a defunct company in France is known to leak cancer-causing silicon, Health Ministry says. Dubai: The Ministry of Health yesterday advised doctors and hospitals against using silicon breast implants made by a French company which reportedly leak and cause cancer. </span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">A senior official said the advice is a precautionary measure since the implants are not available in the UAE as they are not registered with the Ministry. But he said the advice is if they have been imported here "through other means". This is believed to refer to industrial silicon products not subject to the high quality standards normally required for medical products and thus avoiding meeting the high quality standards. This may remind followers of the pro fluoride shenanigins that the allegedly "safe and effective " monosodium fluoride, used in toothpastes and other dental products that this is very different from the toxic waste which supposedly helps prevent tooth decay when its added to drinking water supplies. this is a fine example of the dangers which can result from failure to maintain standards when corners are cut to save money. And this is a good way of allowing a misunderstanding to cloak deliberate misbehaviour and cover a multitude of sins and as a result allow the majority of people to continue to live in ignorance of the true state of affairs. </span></div>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-67296381907997239742011-09-21T20:57:00.000-07:002011-09-21T20:57:47.716-07:00Precedent-Setting Fluoride Personal Injury Case Filed<div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">EXCELLENT NEWS FROM GEORGE GLASSER </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Precedent-Setting Fluoride Personal Injury Case Filed </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Dental Fluorosis Complaint Is First In an Expected Flood of Public & Private Sector Claims </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Ellijay, GA – Dental industry representatives have long fretted in their professional journals that fluoride providers could one day face legal actions for harm caused by ingested fluorides.The fear was that the citizens with a permanent staining and disfigurement of teeth called "dental fluorosis" would bring legal actions upon learning that fluorides they had swallowed had caused the damage to their teeth. </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Now, after this year’s admission by federal officials that fluorides are causing increasing amounts of fluorosis, an era of fluoride personal injury and toxic tort litigation appears poised to begin with the recent filing of a precedent-setting case in the Federal District Court in Maryland.The legal action was filed against corporate giants Nestle USA Inc., Nestle Waters North America, Inc., and Gerber Products Company on behalf of a teenage girl with multiple permanent teeth disfigured by dental fluorosis. </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">The complaint notes that as a baby and young child, around 90% of the water the girl consumed was fluoridated bottled water sold by the Nestle defendants. The girl’s parents had purchased the water based on its advertised dental benefit for children.According to the lead attorney on the case, Washington D.C.-based Chris Nidel, the young woman’s family now faces significant costs for damage-covering dental veneers.The financial impact of the teen’s fluorosis is even greater over the long term. The veneers will need to be replaced four or five times, resulting in a lifetime potential cost of more than $100,000 in dental expenses. </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Attorney Nidel points to a photo of his client’s teeth. "In this case, a photo really is worth a thousand words," he states. "The water providers had a responsibility to warn their customers about fluorosis, but they did not."He says the girl’s mother told him, "I thought I was doing the right thing for my daughter when she was a child, by giving her bottled water that contained fluoride. Her teeth have now been permanently damaged by fluorosis. She is extremely self-conscious about her smile. Her friends ask her about her teeth. And now we’re faced with extensive cosmetic restorations. It’s not simple, and it’s expensive." </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Seeking compensation for the teen’s teeth damage and its impacts, the complaint lists counts of strict liability, negligence, breach of implied warranty, fraud, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.Public health professional Daniel G. Stockin of The Lillie Center Inc., a firm working to end water fluoridation, says, "I believe water utilities will note that the bottled waters that are the focus of this complaint contained around 0.8 parts per million of fluoride, which is right near the amount that public utilities add to their water. We know that millions of people have dental fluorosis, and that minority populations are disproportionately harmed by it. People are not being openly told what fluorosis really is or how it can impact their lives. I think it will be very interesting to see the revelations that come out now, as fluoride product sellers and fluoridated water endorsers begin to be placed under oath in all sorts of fluoride-related legal actions." </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Stockin adds, "There were also warnings in dental and other publications that fluorides could potentially cause bone disorders, kidney harm, and thyroid impairment. I believe we’ll quickly see fluoride lawsuits grow way beyond fluorosis cases."Attorney Nidel says, "We’re at the beginning of what looks to be an absolutely enormous wave of new fluoride litigation. There are so many harmed teenagers with fluorosis. We have the government’s own data to prove that. Potentially millions with fluorosis will want to talk to an attorney, and believe me, plaintiff attorneys and the plaintiffs’ bar are beginning to educate themselves about all this." </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">"The National Research Council’s 2006 fluoride report raised concerns about possible harm that goes well beyond dental fluorosis," he continues. "It appears that millions of kidney patients and diabetics were not told about their increased susceptibility to harm from fluorides by their water providers or healthcare professionals," he says. </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Reference Links / Sources: </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">* Full text of filed complaint and client teeth photo: see two links at: </span></strike><a href="http://www.nidellaw.com/blog/?p=66"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.nidellaw.com/blog/?p=66</span></strike></a><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">* Example of dental journal discussing potential litigation related to fluorosis: "It is only a matter of time until a case is brought that gets public attention. The risk is that noticeable fluorosis will be perceived by the public as a toxic consequence of fluoride ingestion – which, arguably, it is (57) – and there will be a reaction against all uses of fluoride…" Riordan, PJ: Fluoride supplements for young children: an analysis of the literature focusing on benefits and risks. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 1999; 27: p.81. </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">* Other photos of dental fluorosis: </span></strike><a href="http://www.spotsonmyteeth.com/"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">www.SpotsOnMyTeeth.com</span></strike></a><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> ; </span></strike><a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">www.fluoridealert.org</span></strike></a><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">* CDC’s data showing minorities with disproportionate amounts of dental fluorosis (see table 23): </span></strike><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/ss/ss5403.pdf"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/ss/ss5403.pdf</span></strike></a><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">* National Research Council report on fluorides: see "Susceptible Subpopulations section" pp. 350-51: </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11571&page=350"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11571&page=350</span></strike></a><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> & "sensitive populations" info, p. 30: </span></strike><a href="http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11571&page=30"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11571&page=30</span></strike></a><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">* EPA and HHS press release on lowered fluoride level in water in response to increase in dental fluorosis: </span></strike><a href="http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/01/20110107a.html"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/01/20110107a.html</span></strike></a><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">NEWS RELEASE CONTACT: </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<strike><span style="font-size: large;">Daniel G. Stockin, MPH The Lillie Center, Inc. P.O. Box 839 Ellijay GA 30540 </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Ph: 706-669-0786 email: </span></strike><a href="mailto:stockin2@yahoo.com"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">stockin2@yahoo.com</span></strike></a><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> web: </span></strike><a href="http://www.spotsonmyteeth.com/"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.SpotsOnMyTeeth.com</span></strike></a><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">================================================================== </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Hi Brian, Thanks for a wonderful newsletter, Hope now that this is truly the beginning of the end for that TOXIC MUCK, I dont even like saying the name, in this and all other countries in the world, Thanks again for all your and other peoples efforts to make our wishes come true, </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Frank, Wigan. </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">It may not yet be the end but yes the beginning of the end is mofe likely. and we must keep an eye on smaller and third world countries. Like Tobacco, those who market fluoride will extend their market to any nation gullible enought to spread their lies. </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Brian Jackson </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Flouridation axe pleases Greens<br />
The Bolton News<br />
"People can use fluoride toothpaste if they want. The real problem is a lack of NHS dentists." The aim of fluoridation is to strengthen people's teeth and its implementation in the North West would have cost £200 million over six years. ...<br />
See all stories on this topic » </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">D. Mail 17.9.11 "PAEDIOPHILE’S PARK BAN LIFTED BY JUDGE BECAUSE OF HIS HUMAN RIGHT TO KEEP FIT" (By </span></strike><a href="mailto:j.narain@dailymail.co.uk"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">j.narain@dailymail.co.uk</span></strike></a><strike><span style="font-size: large;">) </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">A convicted paediophile banned from a local park because of a horrific attack on a boy, has been allowed back to the park because Judge Woolman said he has a human right to keep fit. Williams of Carlisle had appealed at Hyndburn Magistrates’ Court against the ban, claiming he had health problems & needed regular exercise. Professionals said "…They mention his human rights, but the welfare of children is paramount in English law, so we fail to understand how the court could overwrite the Children Act 1989.." </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">(My comment: it’s interesting that the Children Act can be overridden because of his human right to exercise. Could the fluoridation act be overridden because of a person’s human right not to have their health damaged by fluoride? Maybe this case could be used as a precident. </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Ann </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">DELAYED IS GOOD BUT ONLY CANCELLED WILL SUFFICE! </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">North West Fluoride Plans Delayed<br />
Cosmetic Dentistry Guide (press release)<br />
NHS North West, which is due to be abolished in the near future, assessed the cost of a fluoridation scheme between 2008 and 2009 and came to the conclusion that the scheme would be too expensive. There were also concerns about the management of the ...<br />
See all stories on this topic » </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">North West health authority pours cold water on fluoride scheme<br />
Lancashire Telegraph<br />
By Neil Docking » Reporter NHS North West said it was too expensive and time-consuming to pursue a programme of fluoridation or consultation exercise. The strategic health authority assessed the feasibility and affordability of a regional scheme from ...<br />
See all stories on this topic » </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">Southampton City Council votes against water fluoridation ...<br />
The decision as to whether to fluoridate water in Southampton is up to the South Central Strategic Health Authority who decided in a unanimous vote that "the ...<br />
en.wikinews.org/.../Southampton_City_Council_votes_against... </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR ANDREW LANSLEY </span></strike></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;">the tap: Fluoridation To Be Ordained By Andrew Lansley Secretary ...<br />
As soon as this new Bill comes into effect, it will pass the decision of 'water fluoridation' to local authorities, such as county or district councils, since they have to ...<br />
the-tap.blogspot.com/.../fluoridation-to-be-ordained-by-andre... </span></strike></div>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-56236387377728786512011-09-15T06:55:00.000-07:002011-09-15T07:22:42.370-07:00MANY DENTISTS STILL LIVING IN THE PAST == RACHELS STORY<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/trQSZHF8eI4" width="420"></iframe>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-18803467981466763872011-09-14T10:59:00.000-07:002011-09-14T10:59:27.630-07:00NO FLUORIDATION IN THE NORTH WEST AND MAYBE ALSO SOUTHAMPTON<div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>FLUORIDE CAMPAIGN</strong></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong> </strong></span><br />
<div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>NEWSLETTER</strong></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong> </strong></span><br />
<div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>14th SEPTEMBER, 2011</strong></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong> </strong></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;">FRIENDS OF THE EARTH welcomes and joins the call to cancel fluoridation for the Southampton and Hampshire areas following on from the admission that fluoridating water in Manchester and the North West is now deemed to be too expensive.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Of course the DoH has not mentioned that its also illegal, and contravenes both medical ethics and human rights legislation. (civil servants and Government Ministers are not Doctors and cannot legally prescribe to individuals let alone entire populations) </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Friends of the Earth and associated groups call for the total abandonment of <u>all </u>existing fluoride schemes in the UK, most notably, Birmingham, Coventry, West Cumbria, Newcastle , North Tyneside and Gateshead as well as pockets of fluoridated water in several other areas caused by the eccentricities of the pipe network. This cessation should also include any proposed schemes such as Yorkshire and Teeside. We believe that there is no place or reason for fluoride in the food chain and we need tighter controls over emissions of fluoride from industrial processes. Furthermore we may also need adjustment downards of levels of naturally occuring (but still dangerous fluoride in areas already containing levels of fluoride in excess of the latest US recommendation of 0.7 parts per million. </span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Civil Servants at the Department of Health (sic) should be reprimanded for promoting fluoride and leading Politicians of all parties by the nose. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">At a time when the entire country, not just the NHS is in serious financial difficulties, utilising £400K of the taxpayers money to fight the taxpayers of Southampton who called for a Judicial Review which they would probably never have won without this disgraceful injection of cash.from the public purse. Its little wonder that the NHS is in such financial straightts and badly in need of change when such feeble, undemocratic and wasteful procedures are persued with impunity. Shame on the civil servants at the DOH, and we call on MPs currently debating the Health and Social Care bill to carefully scrutinize the way NHS money is being squandered in order to force contaminated water down the publics throats despite overwhelming and vociferous public opposition. </span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">If individuals really do wish to have fluoride, let doctors and dentists, recommend topical rather than systemic applications of fluoride via toothpaste rather than a pointless and dangerous and unmeasured indiscriminate dosing of the entire population and the natural environment. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Some civil servants have clearly been at it too long and I Suggest they are well passed their Sell-By date. Parliament should take notice of the way that their laws have been unfairly and undemocratically influenced by these grey nonentities amongst the mandarins. MPs and Minister must reclaim democracy on behalf of the people. After all, this is what they were elected for. Mandarins are not elected at all. Nuff Said?</span>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-8984036590910240082011-09-05T08:06:00.000-07:002011-09-05T08:06:53.074-07:00EXCELLENT CAMPAIGNING IN AUSTIN TEXAS -- VIDEO<iframe width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jDqe6MXYo-s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-30389193297723648662011-09-04T09:25:00.000-07:002011-09-04T09:29:00.929-07:00HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE BILL<a href="http://justaswethought.blogspot.com/2011/09/friends-of-earth-fluoride-newsletter.html"><span style="color: black;">FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, FLUORIDE NEWSLETTER, 4TH SEPTEMBER 2011Sunday</span></a><br />
<div class="post-header"><div class="post-header-line-1"><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8870735434756859251"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, FLUORIDE NEWSLETTER, 4TH SEPTEMBER 2011Sunday, 4 </span><br />
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A New Sense of Urgency .... HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE BILL <br />
PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE NEXT WEEK. </span></span><span style="color: yellow; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">After very many years of active and detailed campaigning against fluoridation, there have recently been some slight signs of commonsense and improvement particularly in the USA where many towns are rejecting and pulling out of fluoridating their water supplies. In addition the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has reduced the ・recommended・ maximum levels for fluoride in water supplies. I would go much further than this and agree with Dr Griffin Cole, a dentist in Austin, Texas, who said in response, "I still don't think it's enough, honestly, I don't think there should be fluoride in the water at all. As a veteran FoE water and toxics campaigner, I strongly believe that fluoride in all its forms and combinations, should be kept well clear of the food chain for humans and animals. I make little distinction between the so-called "naturally occuring" fluoride or the even worse industrial waste so beloved of water companies. Fluoride is in our food and drink both accidentally and on purpose and is now coming at us from all directions such as water, milk, salt, processed foods etc. Indeed if this muck can eat its way through glass should not its most avid proponents amongst private dentists and the usual suspects at the Department of Health spend some quality time on the couch of Mr Sigmund Freud?" <br />
The latest UK Government fluoride proposals are rapidly becoming what could be called a 'Hard Hat' area. The USA spear-headed and promoted fluoride in the USA and across the world and the UK Gov., as usual, has eagerly supported the idea in the UK. Some great ideas have come from the USA, but, sadly this is not one of them. Perhaps it's now well past the time for the UK Gov. to call a complete halt to all future plans to fluoridate in the UK and call a halt to existing schemes in the West Midlands and the North East. There is no point in arguing the toss with them over the hotly disputed science and medical qualities and values. Even a cursory look at fluoride leads us to rule it out as a useful medical product and bearing in mind the Precautionary Principle, take much greater care with all other industrial and technological uses of this stuff. We could go on rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic for ever-and-a-day but this is a total waste of time. Governments don't actually make many useful decisions: they are usually made by high-ranking and apparently quasi-immortal civil servants who are not democratically elected but who are merely appointed, and once appointed seem to become eternal. Even Margaret Thatcher occasionally said something sensible and, in particular, once remarked that ・advisers advise and ministers decide.・ Many civil servants, however, seem to think that they should make the decisions as well. In a situation where MPs and Ministers think they are elected to rule rather than to serve by representing the views and opinions of the electorate, it's about time that Civil Servants in the Department of Health realised that they dwell much further down the food chain. <br />
Clearly they need to be made to remember that the unelected members of our government possess even fewer privileges than their political bosses and can be called on to give testimony to 'M'learned friends'. It is only then that proper expert scientific and medical opinion can be placed before the Courts so that a well-informed verdict and policy can be determined. The tiny number of scientifically trained MPs can be counted on one or two fingers so it's not surprising that our scientific discourse has fallen on deaf ears. The fact is they just don't understand the importance or significance of this evidence, and in some cases, may simply not even care. The Department of Health's civil servants listen only to their favourite and trusted lobbyists and advise Ministers accordingly. No wonder the NHS is such an unhappy place nowadays; <br />
Dame Sally Davies, the Government's leading advisor, has just now criticised medical staff in the NHS, calling them "selfish・ because many of the staff had not taken her advice to get the swine flu jab. Perhaps this is because they, like many others, had little faith in the judgement of the said Dame and probably like me, they would rather listen to the advice of medical professionals whom they could trust rather than to the advice of politicians and their appointees, no matter how elevated they may be. When the recommended medication may be full of fluoride or mercury, perhaps this is not so surprising. <br />
The time for legal challenges may now be drawing closer. It has dawned on many that despite the scientific and medical tennis and attempts to reinvent the wheel over facts and figures of fluoride and its effects, the only figures that ultimately matter are the number of votes received for the various MPs and their parties. This is just one of the reasons why many of us are eager for voting reform and voted for change in the referendum which the main political parties spent so much time and money on destroying. We need a far more representative lower house which is truly representative and not stuffed with the usual 'yes men' and cronies. <br />
Now you can read underneath just how dishonest and clannish the politicians really are. Before the last election, as many of you know, MPs and leaders of all the parties were lobbied and polled by FoE Members, This included Clegg, Cameron, Brown et al. They assured us that there would be no compulsion over fluoride against public wishes. Suddenly we learn that once the new Health and Social Care Bill becomes an Act after a hurried debate next week, the parachuting in of fluoride henchmen from the PCTs and SHAs will ensure that unwilling anti-fluoridation Councils will toe the Department of Health line. The most galling part of this is that the cost of this exercise in the further erosion of democracy will be paid for by all of us, via our Council Tax. As this tax cannot be increased, if Cameron is to be believed, some other Council services will have to be axed to pay for it. The cost of this is believed to run into hundreds of millions of pounds. In short, as per usual, Undemocratic, Unethical, Unacceptable and Illegal. No wonder, as one comic remarked, ... "nappies and politicians should be changed frequently.".... and for the same reason. <br />
Brian Jackson<br />
Pendle Friends of the Earth<br />
Fluoride Campaign<br />
01282 860985PS. <br />
Dont give up act now. Phone your MP at his constituency office or buy calling the House of Commons on 0207-219 3000. Ask the switchboard for your MPs office and either talk to him or her or their assistant and if they are not in the office, Leave a message on their ansafone with your number and contact details and ask them to call you back. Remember they do work for you if you force their hand. <br />
You can also call your local councillors especially those on the exec commitee or scrutiny committee, Explain the urgency of recent developments and remind them that they are likly to be sidelined by the Government and have to further cut services to make up even greater Council Tax cuts. You can also remind your councillors that unlike water companies, they may not be insurable against damage or accidents caused by fluoridation. You should also advise your local press and media about the local implications of the New Government Home and Social Care Bill. <br />
Finally there is a guide to making more effective Press Releases for your group or organisation. The template shown is of course for Friends of the Earth but the tips shown apply to anyone trying to make an easy to read Press Release. You can find the information at this link.... </span></span><a href="http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/how_tos/cyw_64_press_release.pdf"><span style="color: yellow; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/how_tos/cyw_64_press_release.pdf</span></span></a><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brian Jackson<br />
Pendle FoE<br />
01282-860985<br />
FROM JONATHAN EYRE </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">LEEDS FRIENDS OF THE EARTH </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Dear Greg Mulholland MP </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Greg, thank you for the letter you wrote to Yorkshire Water on my behalf regarding Fluoridation of the regions drinking water. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Things have therefore gone up a notch, and NEXT week Parliament will be debating a bill 'The Health and Social Care Bill' which effectively change everything, putting a Government hack in all Councils to secure fluoridation of all our drinking water with the demise of the Strategic Health Authorities! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Doug Cross of United Kingdom Councils Against Fluoridation (UKCAF) </span></span><a href="http://www.ukcaf.org/index.html"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">http://www.ukcaf.org/index.html</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> has worked very hard reading the 460 pages of the Bill before working on his professional assessment which is attached to this email. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I advise you and your team to read this attachment through as a matter of urgency. The apparent changes to how Fluoridation will be rolled out is worrying and of grave importance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">As I am sure you are aware, any medical treatment should only be given with consent, should be appropriate for the individual and for their underlying health condition and should have a set limit on the dosage they receive. Dilution of Fluoride compounds into drinking water allow individuals to receive varying amounts of the toxic substance depending on the amount of water they drink, and their size and age and with NO reference to their underlying health condition! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Fluoridation is an attack on all Individuals rights and their health status! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I would hope that you will oppose the sections in the Health Bill next week that relate to Fluoridation of the Public water supply, and perhaps could also ask some questions about this to the Government Ministers, such as </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">・E 'why is Fluoridation put into this Health bill, it seems out of place here being the only medical intervention covered in considerable operational detail' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">・E 'will the Government extend the protection of prosecution extended to all water companies (in the 2003 Water Act) to all Council's, as this would seem to place Councillors under legal threat of encouraging the medication of the public with a non-registered medical drug (Fluoride) and against their will' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">・E 'what cost is estimated for the forced medication of public drinking water by the Government, and will the Government meet this cost fully to all Councils?' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">・E 'will local authorises be entitled to increase council tax to pay for this medication of the public practise above any Government set tax threshold, if not how will authorities afford to pay for this? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">FROM LIZ VAUGHAN AT UKCAF </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">URGENT </span><br />
</span><span style="color: yellow; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">The issue of water fluoridation included in the 'Health and Social Care</span> <span style="color: black;">Bill due to be debated in the House of Commons on Sept 6th and 7th as soon as Parliament returns hence the urgent nature of this email.We have studied this Bill very carefully and its implications for councils. Please circulate to your councillors and officials as soon as possible. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">1 We are advising councils to seek a Judical Review about the incompatibility of fluoridation provisions in the Bill with European and English law on medicines, food and protection of human rights </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">2. The Bill will force councils to employ the NHS Directors of public health, who are all known advocates of fluoridation. These will be required to force councils to implement Government public health policies regardless of public opposition. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">3. Fluoridation always causes substantial damage to children. Councils will be required to repay the cost of fluoridation projects to the Secretary of State from their own income, meaning that the public will be paying for the privilage of poisoning their children </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">4. We have checked with the head of local government insurance at Zurich and this cannot come under normal council insurance and would be seen as an uninsursable 'foreseeable risk'. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">. . </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">We have contacted the LGA to ensure that councils are protected from excessive or unlawful government policies they need to consider urgently the implications of this Bill both for member councils and the wider public for whom they are responsible. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">We have had a long and successful experience of working with councils on fluoridation issues What we think people should do besides protest to their local councillor and make sure their MP is very aware of their opinions and feelings before Tuesday Sept 6th.is to also ensure their local media are aware that this is happening next week. Doug has worked very hard reading the 460 pages of the Bill before working on his professional assessment which is attached to this email. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">If you have a website please put all of this on your site so everyone is aware that the fluoride pushers and their trade union the BDA have managed to convince Government of the need to fluoridate. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Yours sincerely, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Cllr Liz Vaughan UKCAF. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">URGENT </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">The issue of water fluoridation included in the 'Health and Social Care Bill due to be debated in the House of Commons on Sept 6th and 7th as soon as Parliament returns hence the urgent nature of this email.We have studied this Bill very carefully and its implications for councils. Please circulate to your councillors and officials as soon as possible. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">1 We are advising councils to seek a Judical Review about the incompatibility of fluoridation provisions in the Bill with European and English law on medicines, food and protection of human rights </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">2. The Bill will force councils to employ the NHS Directors of public health, who are all known advocates of fluoridation. These will be required to force councils to implement Government public health policies regardless of public opposition. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">3. Fluoridation always causes substantial damage to children. Councils will be required to repay the cost of fluoridation projects to the Secretary of State from their own income, meaning that the public will be paying for the privilage of poisoning their children </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">4. We have checked with the head of local government insurance at Zurich and this cannot come under normal council insurance and would be seen as an uninsursable 'foreseeable risk'. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">. . </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">We have contacted the LGA to ensure that councils are protected from excessive or unlawful government policies they need to consider urgently the implications of this Bill both for member councils and the wider public for whom they are responsible. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">We have had a long and successful experience of working with councils on fluoridation issues What we think people should do besides protest to their local councillor and make sure their MP is very aware of their opinions and feelings before Tuesday Sept 6th.is to also ensure their local media are aware that this is happening next week. Doug has worked very hard reading the 460 pages of the Bill before working on his professional assessment which is attached to this email. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">If you have a website please put all of this on your site so everyone is aware that the fluoride pushers and their trade union the BDA have managed to convince Government of the need to fluoridate. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Yours sincerely, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Cllr Liz Vaughan UKCAF. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"> <br />
From: <br />
"Joy Warren" <</span><a href="mailto:wmaf@live.co.uk%3EAdd"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">wmaf@live.co.uk>Add</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"> sender to Contacts <br />
To: <br />
"Brian Jackson" <</span><a href="mailto:brianjackson77@btinternet.com"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">brianjackson77@btinternet.com</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> <br />
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A really useful database - right-hand pane</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">http://www.epa.gov/ncct/toxcast/files/summit/48P%20Mundy%20TDAS.pdf</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Joy<br />
FOI REQUEST FROM JOY WARREN<br />
1a. Is the DH aware of the database maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US: HYPERLINK "</span><a href="http://www.epa.gov/ncct/toxcast/files/summit/48P%20Mundy%20TDAS.pdf"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">http://www.epa.gov/ncct/toxcast/files/summit/48P%20Mundy%20TDAS.pdf</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">" </span><a href="http://www.epa.gov/ncct/toxcast/files/summit/48P%20Mundy%20TDAS.pdf"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">http://www.epa.gov/ncct/toxcast/files/summit/48P%20Mundy%20TDAS.pdf</span></a><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Fluoride is listed as a developmental neurotoxin in the middle column of the right-hand-pane.<br />
1b. What steps have been taken to add fluoride to similar databases in the UK? <br />
1c. If no steps have been taken, why not?<br />
2a. Is the DH aware of the ARCPOH statistics received by the Australian Government relating to dental decay in Australia collected during 2003 which shows that fluoridated Australian children experience a delay in tooth eruption due to the presence of fluoride in their water and food? Fluoride-induced delayed eruption of teeth has been supported by research by Komarek et al. in 2005. (A Bayesian analysis of multivariate doubly-interval-censored dental data. Biostatistics (2005), 6, 1, pp. 145–155 doi: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxh023 )<br />
2b. If the DH is aware of these statistics and Komarek’s research, please explain why the DH has chosen to ignore the serious implications of fluoride causing a delay in children’s dental development.<br />
2c. Since fluoride is a developmental neurotoxin, please also explain why the DH has failed to realise that delayed eruption of teeth also means disruption to other physical development.<br />
3a. Is the DH aware that the Centers for Disease Control in the US has recommended that the concentration of fluoride in public drinking water be reduced to 0.7ppm?<br />
3b. If the DH is aware, what steps has the DH taken to follow suite?<br />
3c. If no steps have been taken, why not?<br />
4a. Is the DH aware that the reason why the CDC has recommended a reduction in concentration of fluoride is because more than 40% of people born after water fluoridation began in the US have dental fluorosis. Instead of regarding dental fluorosis as being a cosmetic issue, the US Government Department has noted that dental fluorosis is undesirable and has accordingly recommended a reduction in the concentration of fluoride. Likewise, The Republic of Ireland and Hong Kong have reduced the concentration of fluoride. <br />
4b. Why has the DH not told the Secretary of State that a downward variation in fluoride concentration is advisable?<br />
5a. Why has the DH refused to acknowledge research (mainly from China) which points to a reduction in intelligence in communities where drinking water contains natural calcium fluoride? (Note that the Newcastle University research (Maguire et al (2005). Bioavailability of Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Human Experimental Study, J. Dent RES 2005:84; 989) showed that both artificial and natural fluoride are equally bio-available.)<br />
5b. Even if the DH dismisses the validity of Chinese research, please explain why the DH has failed to apply the Precautionary Principle.<br />
6a. Fluoride crosses the placenta so that the unborn child is poisoned with a developmental neurotoxin. Please explain why the DH recommends that pregnant women refrain from alcohol and cigarettes prior to and during pregnancy but has failed to advise them to refrain from drinking and eating fluoride.<br />
I look forward to receiving a full reply and hope that you will observe the statutory 20 working days condition.<br />
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Council Tax to pay for poisoned water</strong></span> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Local Authorities in England are about to be dragged into a minefield of public anger and litigation over the controversial practice of water fluoridation. Environmental analyst Doug Cross is warning Councils that in the coming months they will be dragged into a storm of protests from the public that will dwarf all past battles over the dental profession’s irrational obsession with fluoride. </strong></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The dental profession has long wanted to force Councils to support this discredited practice, that a recent European Commission Scientific Committee has damned as 'A crude measure of systemic fluoride treatment . . . without a detectable threshold for dental and bone damage’.</strong></span></div><br />
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<strong> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong><div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>If the Health and Social Care Bill due to be nodded through Parliament next week is approved, then promoters of fluoridation will at last have convinced a gullible Parliament to force Councils to pander to their senseless fixation. Dentists claim to this is a legitimate public health trade-off, but Doug argues that there can be no justification for compulsory medication that damages many children for life, on the spurious pretext that it might reduce tooth decay in a few. </strong></span></div><br />
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<strong> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong><div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Regardless of the public’s overwhelming rejection of fluoridation, the government appears determined to force this bill through Parliament, obliging Councils to take responsibility for this deeply resented practice. Cross is calling for Councils to collaborate on mounting a Judicial Review of all fluoridation legislation in the UK. He claims that it is incompatible with both EC and the English legislation on medicinal products and food. He says that the disfiguration caused by dental fluorosis amounts to degrading treatment, and is in violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. </strong></span></div><br />
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<strong> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong><div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>If he is right, then a Court decision supporting his challenge here in the UK would have enormous influence in the world-wide movement to abolish what he describes as ‘State-sponsored child abuse’.</strong></span></div><br />
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<strong> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong><div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>His call to Councils for action can be downloaded from </strong></span></div></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><strong></strong><br />
<div align="JUSTIFY"><a href="http://www.xproexperts.co.uk/expertarticles/3422-1314877370_Fluoridation,%20Health%20and%20Social%20Care%20Bill,%20and%20Councils..pdf"><strong><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="" style="font-size: large;">http://www.xproexperts.co.uk/expertarticles/3422-1314877370_Fluoridation,%20Health%20and%20Social%20Care%20Bill,%20and%20Councils..pdf</span></span></span></u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"></span></span></strong></a></div><span lang="" style="font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span><br />
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<div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Doug has written widely on the incompatibilities of fluoridation law with the principles of medicinal law, medical ethics and human rights, and his analyses are available from </strong></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span><br />
<div align="JUSTIFY"><a href="http://www.ukcaf.org/commentaries.html"><strong><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="" style="font-size: large;">http://www.ukcaf.org/commentaries.html</span></span></span></u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"></span></span></strong></a></div><span lang="" style="font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span><br />
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<strong> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong><div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Doug is a Director of UK Councils Against Fluoridation Ltd, a not-for-profit company providing information and advice to Local Authorities in the UK, Australia, Canada, and the USA. UKCAF was founded by his partner, professional artist Liz Vaughan, in 1988, and has been a leading influence with councils in preventing the imposition of fluoridation in the North West and Northern Ireland. At present around 74 Councils are affiliated to UKCAF.</strong></span></div><br />
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<strong> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong><div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Doug has a long record of international successes as a senior Environmental Analyst and Mission Leader for International Development Agencies and Consultancy consortia. For the past ten years he has been a member of the Lowermoor Sub-Group of the government’s Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (CoT), investigating the effects of the 1988 Camelford Poisoning, in which the water supply to 20,000 people in North Cornwall was contaminated by aluminium sulphate. He has campaigned for the recognition of the need for appropriate medical monitoring of the North Cornwall community for the past 23 years. He was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Biology in December 2009.</strong></span></div><br />
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<strong> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong><div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Address for contact - Croft End, Lowick Bridge, Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 8EE </strong></span></div><br />
<strong> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong><div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Tel 01229 885420 </strong></span></div><br />
<strong> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong><div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Email doug@ukcaf.org</strong></span></div></span>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-85834520759939937202011-08-17T09:22:00.000-07:002011-08-17T09:25:58.504-07:00THE FIRST 1,000 DAYS<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>The First Thousand Days was the title of an excellent BBC Radio Four programme which looked at the effects of the environment and Diet on infants and their development. The seeds of illnesses are apparently planted and nurtured both in the womb and during infant development which may not show for many decades. </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>Dr Mark Porter talks</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: red;">ed to the scientists who now believe that this 'lifecourse' approach, will find the cause of many adult diseases. "Chronic disease is going up in leaps and bounds, this is not a genetic change" says Kent Thornburg, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in Oregon, America "it's because the environment in the womb is getting worse. We know now that the first 1000 days of life is the most sensitive period for determining lifelong health'. Our diet and environment are undoubtedly increasingly full of crap and toxins and this toxic cocktail of influences.</span> </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>Fluoride is undoubtedly one of the most toxic of chemicals and just as breast milk appears to filter out a great deal of fluoride, then the placenta should also be shielded from as much fluoride as it can. The effects of such chemicals may not show fully untill the adults 50s or 60s. Of course if an adult leads a moderate lifestyle he or she may still live to a good age but continuing to take dangerous chemicals into the adult system can only do yet more damage. Of course if adults choose to take fluoride, that is their business but infants and young people are not given such choices or properly educated about the real dangers of fluoride. It seems like only common sense to me that expectent mothers and fathers, and infants should steer well clear of these poisons. Fluorides, whether naturally occuring or manufactured as the result of various industrial processes are both poisonous and they should have no place in the human diet, rather than wasting money on this dangerous. unethical and illegal poisoning of people adding fluorides to people should be replaced by spending money on removing such chemicals at source.</strong></span> </div>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-59552274918358993722011-04-20T03:38:00.000-07:002011-04-20T03:38:15.872-07:00YOU WANT DEMOCRACY ? THEN VOTE YES FOR AV AND PR<div><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">YOU WANT DEMOCRACY ? THEN VOTE YES FOR AV AND PR<br />
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<div align="JUSTIFY">The "NO" vote campaign is yet another disgraceful attempt by the two main parties and their paymasters, to cling on to power. We really need Proportional Representation and though not perfect a YES vote to AV is a major step in the right direction. No simply allows MPs and political manipulators to carry on with business as usual, ie. bad lawmaking and poor debate. together with the usual fiddles and scams and cronyism. . Yes to AV on May 5th and full PR at the next General Election will not endanger democracy, it will strengthen it. We cannot lecture and dictate to other countries when we dont even have democracy here. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/MC1db"><b><u><span style="color: blue;">Jonathan Eyre</span></u></b><u><span style="color: blue;"></span></u><span style="color: blue;"></span></a> on his facebook page also makes it pretty clear. </div><br />
<div align="JUSTIFY">"AV, it's just too difficult to understand, therefore vote No?!!, yeah, like don't worry your poor little heads about the Environment, industrial pollution and its chemistry and how it affects animals, aquatic life, humans; like the Economy,... like it's best left to those who know and make profit from you and drop you in the shit; like the NHS, its soo complicated that its too hard for us to defend?<br />
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We are living in a time of 3 <span style="color: #ffcc00;">debts</span>, the Economy, The Environment, and Fossil fuels. Vote yes to Britain’s natural progressive majority, Vote Yes for AV "</div></div>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-10563161824050693122011-03-12T09:24:00.000-08:002011-03-12T09:36:39.129-08:00THE FLUORIDE FAIRGROUND<span style="font-size:85%;"> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000000;">Roll up, roll up, for the Fabulous Fluoride Fairground! Once you visit this crazy carnival, and allow Health Minister Andrew Lansley's Departmental roustabouts to put you on the fluoride merry-go-round, you won't be able to get off! So here's the inside story on the crazy experimental fluoridation circus they want your kids to join.</span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000000;">Suppose fluoridation starts in Southampton by the end of this year. If <a href="http://www.ukcaf.org/">http://www.ukcaf.org/</a>your kids are under around seven years old, up to half of them will probably get fluorosis by the time they are about twelve. But you won't know if they are going to get fluoride-damaged teeth for at least another five years, and more if they're younger. The fluoride pushers' sickening 'experiment' won't come up with any results for at least that long, but when the results do start to roll in, it'll be too late for you to pull your kids out.</span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000000;">Even if the Health Police do decide to stop fluoridating when they see the results (and how likely is that?), your new-born infants could develop fluorosis as teenagers until at least 2030, as yet more of your little 'guinea pigs' are fed into the mindless research machine until it eventually grinds to a halt. </span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000000;">Of course, the Health Police will deny that it's all down to them, and will want yet more 'research', until they at last forced to admit that, once again, there really is a problem with fluoridation, and finally shut down their obscene experiment. But that will still take another ten years - after all, reseach grants could be at risk, and we can't have that, can we?</span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000000;">Once you get on the fluorosis merry-go-round, you can't get off it until it stops, and that won't be until 2030 at the earliest. And if you get dragged onto the lethal bone cancer roundabout spinning alongside in this Alice-in-Wonderland fantasy fairground of excruciating experimentation, that one doesn't stop until 2040! More realistically, because this is a rare disease, the lunatics will demand even more 'research' before they're convinced. So Southampton's boy children will not be certain that they're finally clear until around the middle of the century.</span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000000;">Once you visit the Fluoridation Fairground, you're locked in. You'll be whirled around for at least twenty years, waiting for your kids' teeth to go brown. But if you've got young boys in the family, you'll be put onto the bone cancer one as well, and that will spin you along on a 40 year ride! </span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000000;">Is that what they really mean when they claim that fluoridation is 'cost-effective'? Just walk through the gate and you can stay as long as you like!</span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000000;">Doug Cross</span></p><p align="justify"> </p></span>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-54593355157448373692011-03-12T06:56:00.000-08:002011-03-12T07:17:36.146-08:00DONT GIVE FLUORIDE TO YOUR DOG, GIVE IT TO YOUR CHILDREN.<div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Whilst watching Crufts Dog Show on More Four TV to catch up on my friend who is entering a couple of dogs there, I was heartened to hear a training and welfare expert, whilst demonstrating the cleaning of dogs teeth. Perhaps not unsurprisingly, say that it was essential to use only toothpaste containing no fluoride. So here we have something not fit for a dog which is nevertheless highly recommended by brain donees in the BDA et al for your children. How can numptys like this hold such positions of authority. I think i would rather take advice on health from a couple of stand up comedians. Now before you say, lots of dentists and so-called health pros, clearly are stand up comedians I can only counter by saying they are sadly far from the best of humourists. Perhaps we should go to Frankie Boyle for a check up. I think we should be told. </strong></span></div>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-46062016515146890772011-03-08T08:20:00.000-08:002011-03-08T08:21:24.049-08:00NEW VIDEO -- THE FLUORIDE DECEPTION<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LEZ15m-D_n8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-74645009985989437592011-02-17T09:24:00.000-08:002011-02-17T09:48:52.186-08:00HOW DO YOU CAMPAIGN IN A BORED AND BOURGOISE TOWN ?<div align="justify"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong>It doesn't get any easier campaigning on fluoride. There was a time when friends of the earth could call up a local paper or radio station, outline a pollution issue or a new campaign and in no time at all there was an article in the paper or you were on the phone doing a down the line interview or even doing it live. Now there are fewer and fewer investigative journalists and those who still remain have more than enough to do. </strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong></strong></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong>BBC Local radio stations were once a vital component of any Friends of the Earth campaigners strategy and more than willing to involve themselves or invite you into the studio as an expert witness. Since Jonathan Ross and his cohorts did so much damage to the BBC with their ill advised and childishly obscene prank phone calls, ordinary presenters are no longer trusted. Consequently, what was once a virtually free or at least very low cost hours programming now has to have a couple of trusted producers and costs a couple of thousand quid. Sad Sad Sad. </strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong></strong></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong>Even Friends of the Earth have not always helped. Since the loss of people like Andrew Lees and his team in London, FoE have increasingly become a centralised organisation. Formerly local groups campaigned mostly on local issues some of which grew organically and even became national or even international campaigns with wide networks. Now with Underwood Streets apparent fixation with Carbon Emissions, lots of local campaiging groups find getting their message out increasingly difficult. </strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong></strong></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong>I would be the last person to say that human created carbon emissions are not important, but so are a lot of other pollution issues which dont seem to even get a look int any more. Chlorine is used with gay abandon, petrol engines are replaced with small diesel engines, which were wrongly believed to be less polluting as they didnt emit benzine but meanwhile Nox and Sox go through the roof in many areas, and even here in Pendle. </strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong></strong></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#009900;"><strong>Amidst all this gloom there are at least SOME blessings. The internet and its communications media such as Messenger and Skype do afford the opportunity to reach many people quickly and cheaply and facilitate sharing of information, documents, and audio/video media. Mobile phones text messaging have evolved into a plague of Twitterers and no one is anyone who hasnt got a Facebook account (and probably lots of spam Junk Mail and computer viruses. Personally i preferring blogging which at least gives enough space to cover all the angles without interference or the constant need to add "friends" and other detritus to an already crowded schedule. ........................ TBC. </strong></span></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"> </div>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-56886675805025516312011-02-09T08:06:00.000-08:002011-02-09T08:09:18.511-08:00FLUORIDE -- COSMETIC EFFECTS<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sgFcnN3ArOo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-24745740905732690722011-01-16T18:55:00.000-08:002011-01-16T19:18:00.172-08:00Rupert Murdoch admits to being thousands of years out of date.<div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-13542430762365667942010-10-05T05:47:00.000-07:002010-10-19T22:49:56.338-07:00UNITED FUTILITIES AND FLUORIDATION.I can only sympathise with anyone who has tried to talk to United Utilities Water (it used to be called North West Water until it discovered the financial delights of going Global) If you visit their web site and try any contact numbers you will of course get a Call Centre. Its even worse than it sounds however, The call centre is completely obsessed with Accounts and Billing to the exclusion of practically all else. Even if i phoned in to warn them of a bomb alert, i would suggest they would still ask me for an account number. After I had finally managed to talk to a human, i found that other than being obsessed with Post or Zip Codes there was no access access whatsoever to any technical or scientific staff. <br /><br />Its been heading in this direction for years and United utilities is by no means alone but in recent timess they have became totally inaccible. After eight days of trying to get a mildly technicl answer,having named the issue and the officer in charge I finally saw red and contacted the Consumer council for water and made an official complaint. This was my first effective decision. The consumer council were very good and within 48 hours both then and and a representative from UU had written to me. Sadly however it wsa soon back to normal. I am at the time of writing still waiting to hear from United Utilities to actually hear a technical response to me question. <br /><br />WAKE UP uu SOME OF US DO ACTUALLY HAVE OTHER THINGS TO DO.Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888424175824758163.post-11003736660015603972010-09-13T23:34:00.000-07:002010-09-13T23:40:06.640-07:00BOY WHO SWALLOWED COCKROACH POISON TURNED AWAY FROM LOCAL HOSPITAL BECAUSE IT WAS DUE TO CLOSE FOR THE NIGHT.<span style="font-size:85%;"> <p></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">One of my regualr correspondents on the continent, sends me an interesting report from the Daily Mail 12.9.2010<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </p></span></span><p><span style="font-size:130%;">The parents of 3 year old Todd Thomas of Chepstow were directed to a hospital an hours dive away after he sprayed some cockroach poison in his mouth.<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </p></span></span><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Before they reached the hospital he started suffering blisters in his mouth and vomiting. The symptoms mostly subsided after a few days.<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </p></span></span><p><span style="font-size:130%;">My comments: .......</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Cockroach poison is documented to contain fluoride and the symptoms Todd suffered, burns and vomiting are exactly those of cases reported from poison units worldwide after fluoride poisoning. The article does not mention what chemicals were in the pesticide of course.<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </p></span></span><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Edward<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </p></span></span>Frank Acnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00845310224905454659noreply@blogger.com0