By David J. McRae Water Quality Australia
We in Australian cities are having similar fluoride problems with zealous health officials making quite wild claims about fluoridation being marvelous, and utterly ignoring the recent science on serious dangers of constant fluoride intake.
Your article of Jan. 19 (“Not all smile for fluoride treatment,” page 3) stated that the fluoride is a “naturally occurring mineral.” Very misleading. The fluoride added to water supplies is a waste product of phosphate fertilizer manufacturing. It is a toxic pollutant contaminated with arsenic, cadmium and other undesirable material.
If medical grade purified fluoride were to be used, then the procedure would no longer be cheap, it would be massively expensive. When fluoride advocates claim it is cheap, what they really mean is they want to use low-grade, contaminated product. We must have the right to make an informed choice. How can that be when the medicine is in the water supply? It goes down every citizen’s throat daily, hourly — including those with chemical sensitivities and other disabilities. Fluoridation is simply outdated, 1950s nonsense. It is wrong.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 2, 2007. Read the original PDF.