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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01/16/2018 07 Public CommentCitizen of Yakima request to REMOVE Fluoride and Chlorination in Drinking water. Distributed at the Meeting http://www.angelfire.com/az/sthurston/fluoride.html Introduction: "....The report offers a glimpse into the history of fluoride, a bio -accumulative Toxin that Americans ingest every day. The authors, Griffiths and Bryson, spent more than a year on research. With the belief that the information should be withheld no longer, the authors gave their report to Waste Not, and others, with a short note: "use as you wish." The science of fluoridating public drinking water systems has been, from day one, shoddy at best. As we learn from this report, the basis of that science was rooted in protecting the U.S. Atomic bomb program from litigation. Americans have been convinced that fluoride will save their teeth and we drink more fluoridated water than any other nationality on earth. We teamed about the dirty politics involved in the science and selling of fluoridation to a trusting public. We spent three months researching fluoride which resulted in the longest newsletter we've ever produced: Waste Not # 373. We teamed that fluoride is a poison that accumulates in our bones. It has been associated with cancer in young males; osteoporosis; reduced I.Q.; and hip fractures in the elderly, to name a few. George Orwell would have been dazzled by the promotion of this toxic by dental and public health officials and concurrently, the avoidance of this issue by the environmental community. We think it has a lotto do with the sordid 50 -year history of the promotion of fluoridation by the U.S. Department of Public Health and the American Dental Association. Rather than acknowledge the accumulating evidence of fluoride's threat to human health, they have entrenched themselves in a position that has produced tactics that include the harassment of scientists and dentists who speak out." Chlorination of drinking water can oxidize organic contaminants, producing trihalomethanes (also called haloforms), which are carcinogenic (cancer-causing). • When household bleach is mixed with wastewater it is found to form numerous organic compounds. Two of those compounds are chloroform - which can cause dizziness, headache, respiratory issues, heart attack, liver and kidney damage, birth defects and more - and carbon tetrachloride - which is responsible for nerve damage, liver and kidney degeneration, coma and death. • Chlorine and wastewater can also create Trihalomethanes, a toxic carcinogen that has been linked to breast cancer3 and miscarriage and other fertility issues in animals4 • Bleach also breaks down in the environment to "halides", which shellfish, as well as other aquatic life. • Organochlorides, which contain chlorine, stick around in the environment for a long time and have been linked to reproductive issues, immune dysfunction, cancer, hormonal disruption and more. I wish to petition the City of Yakima, WA.USA. to remove the REMOVE Fluoride and Chlorination in Drinking water. flu oride (redirected from Floride) Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia. Related to Floride: fluoride, Fluoride poisoning fluoride [floorid] any binary compound of fluorine. fluoride poisoning a toxic condition that sometimes occurs with ingestion of excessive fluoride. Acute fluoride poisoning involves an immediate physiological reaction, with nausea, vomiting, hypersalivation, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Chronic fluoride poisoning is a physiological reaction to long term exposure to high levels of fluoride and is characterized by dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, and kidney damage. Called also fluorosis. systemic fluoride a fluoride ingested in water, supplements, or some other form. See also fluoridation. topical fluoride a fluoride applied directly to the teeth, especially of children, in a dental caries prevention program. fluoride toxicity, n poisoning as a result of ingesting too much fluoride. Symptoms range from upset stomach to death. flu or•ide (flor'Td) 1. A compound of fluorine with a metal, a nonmetal, or an organic radical. 2. The anion of fluorine; inhibits enolase; found in bone and tooth apatite; fluoride has a cariostatic effect; high levels are toxic.