Confirmed: Peel’s new target fluoride concentration is 0.65 ppm, not 0.5 ppm
June 4, 2017 update:
Council’s July 6, 2107 agenda contains further proof of the inaccuracy of the Brampton Guardian’s article of March 9, 2017. The new target concentration of neurotoxic fluoride in our drinking water is 0.65 ppm (aka 0.65 mg/L), as shown on page 386 (10.4 – 2). It is not 0.5 ppm, as reported by the Guardian almost 4 months ago.
As shown below, Mr. Jim Nardi, Regional Hub Manager, South Peel Facilities Regional Hub Office, Ontario Clean Water Agency (the Crown Corporation contracted by Peel to illegally add HFSA to our drinking water), has confirmed via email that the new target concentration of fluoride in Peel’s municipal drinking water is not 0.5 mg/L, the number reported by Roger Belgrave in the Brampton Guardian on March 9th.
The new concentration is 0.65 mg/L, less than 10% lower than the previous level of 0.7 mg/L, and 30% higher than reported by Roger Belgrave.
[Note that “mg/L” is interchangeable with “ppm”, parts per million.]
If the Brampton Guardian had followed up on our earlier communications to them about this issue with some actual fact checking, this error could have been corrected sooner and the public would not have been unnecessarily misled for the past 3 months.
Isn’t it “interesting” how apparently no one at OCWA or the Region bothered to inform the Brampton Guardian of this serious error?
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Jim Nardi <JNardi@ocwa.com> wrote:
Ms. Massey,
In response to your questions below, the Ontario Clean Water Agency’s position regarding the use of fluoride as a drinking water additive is to follow the instructions provided by our clients, in this case the Region of Peel. Where a client has directed the use of fluoride, OCWA will do so within the limits established by the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change or other regulators.
Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change’s Technical Support Document for Ontario Drinking Water Standards, Objectives and Guidelines states, ‘where fluoride is added to drinking water, it is recommended that the concentration be adjusted to 0.5 – 0.8 mg/L, the optimum level for control of tooth decay’. The Region of Peel has established a target concentration for fluoride of 0.65 mg/L, with which OCWA abides.
With regard to the use of 25% FLUOROSILICIC ACID PURE, the Region of Peel’s Drinking Water Quality Management System requires that all chemicals and materials used in the operation of the Region’s drinking water systems must meet the applicable standards set by AWWA/ANSI Standard B703-11 and NSF International to ANSI/NSF Standard 60. 25% FLUOROSILICIC ACID PURE meets these standards.
Please direct further inquiries to the Region of Peel.
Jim Nardi, Regional Hub Manager, South Peel Facilities / Ontario Clean Water Agency
Cell 416-312-8578 / jnardi@ocwa.com / www.ocwa.com
Mr. Nardi’s message has been forwarded to the Brampton Guardian and we expect them to promptly publish a correction.
Click here to read the questions that Mr. Nardi refused to answer.
Our June 13, 2017 reply to Mr. Nardi:
Dear Mr. Nardi,
No Canadian community, government, or Crown corporation can legally or ethically force onto residents a chemical that serves as a drug (i.e. to suppress the disease of dental caries in those who consume it, as opposed to neutralizing health threats already present in the water).
You cannot legally or ethically mass-medicate individuals who have not provided informed consent to be treated with your industrial cocktail of fluoride and other potent toxins via public water. Even a regulated health professional cannot do this to even one person, one time, without risk of being stripped of their license. Yet this is what OCWA is doing to roughly a million people, every single day.
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This is especially disturbing in the absence of proof of safety, and without any ability to control the individual dosages and without monitoring for toxicities.I will not waste time arguing over specific studies.
OCWA, the Region and the province lack the required proof that OCWA’s addition of HFSA to our drinking water is perfectly safe for all, including all pregnant women, all infants, all sick and/or elderly residents, and all of those who consume larger than average amounts of water. If I am wrong, provide the proof, in the form of published, peer reviewed, completed, randomized, clinical controlled studies on OCWA’s HFSA in tap water, conducted using modern scientific methodology. Note that ‘weight-of-evidence’ reviews, observational studies, claims of dissociation, and provincially allowed limits are not proof of anything.
This a formal citizen’s order to OCWA to CEASE AND DESIST your unlawful fluoridation of Peel’s municipal drinking water.
CEASE AND DESIST your addition of neurotoxic, endocrine-disrupting, enzyme-inhibiting, mitochondrial-poisoning, carcinogenic, fluorosis-causing, industrial waste fluoride acid to public drinking water.
[To reply to specific points in your message:
- You have admitted that OCWA puts the Region’s instructions above the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Food and Drugs Act, and the Charter rights of residents. This will not do. CEASE AND DESIST.
- NSF’s certification of HFSA is meaningless smoke and mirrors because it is not based on toxicology studies of the chemical.
- The technical document you refer to is not a legal standard, and again, it clearly states on page 1: “…guidelines … in no way should be regarded as implying that allowing the degradation of a high quality water supply to the specified level or range is acceptable”.
- There is nothing “pure” about HFSA.
- The existence of corrupt regulators who turn a blind eye to OCWA and the Region’s blatantly unlawful activities does not justify the illegal mass-medication of residents with neurotoxic, endocrine-disrupting, enzyme-inhibiting, mitochondria-poisoning, carcinogenic, fluorosis-causing, industrial waste fluoride acid in our drinking water.]
Best wishes,
Christine Massey, M.Sc.
Brampton ON