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From: George Glasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
St Petersburg, Florida, USA.
In a September 5, letter from USEPA responding to a US House
Committee on Science inquiry into the safety of artificial
drinking water fluoridation, Charles Fox, USEPA Assistant
Administrator, wrote: "There are no water quality criteria
for fluoride either for the protection of aquatic life or for
the protection of human health." He said that the EPA has made
a requirement for public water systems to provide their
consumers with information on health effects and contaminants,
including fluoride, in their water supply.
Fox stated that EPA is in the process of developing medical
fact sheets for medical practitioners (doctors, nurses,
dietitians, etc.) with health information on drinking water
contaminants that can be used to counsel patients about
waterborne contaminants, including fluoridation chemicals. He
said that the fact sheets will initially focus on the elderly,
children and pregnant women. However, the EPA will later expand
the information sheets to cover other at-risk populations.
The action on fluoridated water was prompted by the 1993
"Toxicological Profile for Fluorides, Hydrogen Fluoride and
Fluorine" (US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR), 1993), page 112 statement:
"POPULATIONS THAT ARE UNUSUALLY SUSCEPTIBLE. Existing data
indicate that subsets of the population may be unusually
susceptible to the effects of fluoride and its compounds.
These populations include the elderly, people with
deficiencies of calcium, magnesium and vitamin C, and people
with cardiovascular and kidney problems . . . Poor nutrition
increases the incidence and severity of dental fluorosis and
skeletal fluorosis."
The EPA letter also revealed that 'at risk' populations for
exposure to fluorides in drinking water are in the tens of
millions of Americans:
* 55 years and older population - 52,000,000
* Cardiovascular disease - 22,000,000
* Kidney (renal) disorders - 2,000,000
* Vitamin C deficiency - 27% of the population
* Magnesium deficiency - 37% of the population
* Calcium deficiency - 44% of the population
Assistant Administrator Fox stated that in 1999, the EPA
requested the National Toxicology Program to conduct studies
regarding the neurotoxicity of almunium and fluoride in
drinking water, which had been observed in several earlier
studies.
Fox concluded by saying that adverse effects from fluoridated
drinking water are based only on dental fluorosis which "is
not an appropriate value to use for a human health criterion."
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