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The WTO wants to control what you can eat

submitted by jwray

1 decade 6 years 2 months ago

The National Academy of Sciences released a new report stating that 2ppm of fluoride in drinking water is harmful (neurotoxic etc), while 1ppm of fluoride is typical in government-mandated water fluoridation schemes. http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11571&page=8

EPA employee unions have advocated ceasing water fluoridation because lack of fluoride causes no harm except a (preventable by other means) increase in tooth decay, and therefore the risks of fluoridation outweigh the benefits.

“The difference between the levels of fluoride causing toxic effects and the levels added to water to prevent tooth decay is vanishingly small and deeply troubling.”
- Dr. J. William Hirzy, Vice President, Environmental Protection Agency's Headquarters Union, Washington DC.

"l personally feel that the NRC report is relevant to many aspects of the water fluoridation debate... [T]he report discusses the wide range of drinking water intake among members of the population, which means that groups with different fluoride concentrations in their drinking water may still have overlapping distributions of individual fluoride exposure. ln other words, the range of individual fluoride exposures at 1 mg/L will overlap the range of individual exposures at 2 mg/L or even 4 mg/L. Thus, even without consideration of differences in individual susceptibility to various effects, the margin of safety between 1 and 4 mg/L is very low."
- Dr. Kathleen Thiessen, NRC Panel Member.

"In my opinion, the evidence that fluoridation is more harmful than beneficial is now overwhelming and policy makers who avoid thoroughly reviewing recent data before introducing new fluoridation schemes do so at risk of future litigation."
- Dr. Hardy Limeback, NRC Panel Member.

However, water fluoridation will be MANDATORY in all countries that implement the WTO's food trade standard, Codex Alimentarius.

Can somebody more knowledgeable about this subject provide some counterarguments? I found a respectable scientific paper documenting a clinical trial that showed 2ppm of NaF in rats' drinking water caused significant neurological abnormalities in the rats. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6SYR-3WBG210-12&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ecad585c213c020309f139d3a33efa40

Here's a correlational study on human subjects in china that shows average IQ of those exposed to 2.5ppm fluoride in drinking water was 8 points lower than average IQ of those exposed to <0.5ppm of fluoride in drinking water. http://fluoride-journal.com/03-36-2/362-084.pdf

Here's a paper on an actual mechanism of neural damage from fluorosis: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TCN-474GK9K-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=f4c25caa40fa414a74ff52d7651325df

About 60% of US drinking water is fluoridated with about 1 ppm of F, (equivalent to about 2ppm NaF) which is almost level that was proven to cause behavioral deficits in rats.