Brampton Guardian misled public re: water fluoridation
Update November 22, 2018:
Neither the reporter or editor of the news story referenced below ever responded to our email. Instead, they simply edited their story to read “… this is a recommendation of Health Canada“, with no apology or acknowledgement of any kind that the original story contained an obvious falsehood, which apparently resulted from misquoting October Bell, Supervisor, Water and Wastewater Compliance for the Region of Peel. They made their correction >24 hours after the story was originally posted, and a day after our email.
[Note that the Brampton Guardian has, as of Nov. 22 2018, also never bothered to correct their fluoride falsehood published in March 2017, claiming that the new fluoride concentration in Peel’s water is .5 mg/L when in fact it is .65 mg/L, 30% higher than stated. See here: https://www.bramptonguardian.com/news-story/7182264-peel-council-unanimous-in-voting-to-continue-with-water-fluoridation/]
Original version of report by Marta Marychuk, published/shared by Brampton Guardian, Mississauga.com and Caledon Enterprise:
“Fluoride is added to the finished water to prevent cavities, says Bell, adding this is a requirement of Health Canada.”
FFP email response, sent Nov. 18, 2018
Dear Marta Marychuk, Patricia Lonergan, Editor in Chief, Brampton Guardian, Peel Regional Council, Staff, Commissioners and CAO, Jim Nardi, OCWA, W. Mark Holman, Senior Director Engineering at The Coca-Cola Company, Brampton:
This morning a report entitled “Drinking water in Peel highly treated, tested and regulated“, written by Marta Marychuk, was published by the Brampton Guardian and Mississauga.com. It was shared on social media by EIN Pepsi-Cola News.
The article contains a blatant lie attributed to October Bell, Supervisor, Water and Wastewater Compliance for the Region of Peel:
“Fluoride is added to the finished water to prevent cavities, says Bell, adding this is a requirement of Health Canada.”
There is no requirement from Health Canada or any other government agency to add fluoride to municipal drinking water, which is why most Canadian municipalities, including a growing number in Ontario, to not fluoridate. I hope that Ms. Marychuk and Ms. Lonergan will take immediate steps to correct this shocking misinformation and admit the error.
Adding fluoride to public drinking water is simply an unlawful choice made by the Region of Peel and other fluoridated municipalities to add this regulated water contaminant, sourced from industrial waste and contaminated with other potent regulated contaminants (i.e. arsenic and lead, both having an EPA MCLG of zero). Unlike chlorine, fluoride plays no role in water treatment.
Ontario’s Safe Drinking Water Act, which trumps the Fluoridation Act, forbids the addition of anything that could cause a health hazard and states that dilution is no excuse.
Endorsements and recommendations are not science, or science based, and do not ensure safety. Nor do provincial Maximum Allowed Concentrations.
Please note the following:
Affidavit by John Remington-Graham Counselor at Law Re Judicial Findings in 3 Landmark Cases in Pennsylvania, Illinois & Texas: Artificial Water Fluoridation Causes Cancer & Other Ailments in Man
https://www.peelregion.ca/
October 10, 2018 Press Release from Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto:
Higher levels of urinary fluoride associated with ADHD in children. “Our findings are consistent with a growing body of evidence suggesting that the growing fetal nervous system may be negatively affected by higher levels of fluoride exposure,” said Dr. Morteza Bashash, the study’s lead author and researcher at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
http://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/
Study: Fluoride levels in pregnant women in Canada show drinking water is primary source of exposure to fluoride
http://news.yorku.ca/2018/10/
October 14, 2018, Press Release from York University:
Study shows potential effect of fluoride on thyroid function for some Canadians
http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/
Grade school math shows that every 385 ml of Peel’s fluoridated drinking water contains 0.25 mg fluoride, the same dose that the FDA, CDC, Health Canada and dentists all agree must be spit out by young children when brushing their teeth with the recommended pea-sized bit of fluoridated toothpaste: 0.385 L x 0.65 mg / L = 0.25 mg fluoride. CDC on the fluoride content in fluoride toothpaste (“a pea sized bit of paste is approximately 0.25 grams, and each gram contains ~1 mg fluoride): https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
R. v. Morgentaler. Supreme Court: “The law has long recognized that the human body ought to be protected from interference by others. At common law, for example, any medical procedure carried out on a person without that person’s consent is an assault.”
https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/288/index.do
1979, Quebec Ministry of Environment Report On Fluorides, Fluoridation & Environmental Quality (attached): “…. fluorides have been ranked high among environmental problems, Their toxicity is such that in 1947, the American Association for the Advancement of Science considered the fluoride ion the most dangerous atmospheric pollutant after sulphur dioxide and ozone, and placed it third among the urgent problems to be examined in this field…”
Memo indicating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency‘s “solution” to air & water pollution from industrial fluoride acid (HFSA, the Region of Peel’s chosen fluoride agent): add it to public drinking water:
http://www.fluoridefreepeel.
By making health claims, the Region is using HFSA an an unregulated, untested, unapproved drug. Expert Dr. Gilles Parent’s Presentation to the Region of Peel’s Community Water Fluoridation Committee, April 19 2018: http://www.fluoridefreepeel.
“Residual Components” in HFSA (mg/L), according to Peel Staff, arsenic: 3 – 12.1; lead: 0.18 – 1.7; page 16: https://www.peelregion.ca/
Water fluoridation can increase the level of arsenic in water by up to 22%, according to a 2013 letter from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment: http://www.fluoridefreepeel.
U.S. EPA Public Health Goal / Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) for both arsenic and lead is zero. The MCLG is defined as the level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. Inorganic Chemicals Table: https://www.epa.gov/ground-
Toxic Substances List, Environment and Climate Change Canada: Inorganic fluoride (See #40: http://www.ec.gc.ca/lcpe-cepa/
Transport Canada (2012) Emergency Response Guidebook: HFSA = Dangerous Good / Hazardous Material.
http://phmsa.dot.gov/
Quotes from material safety data sheets for HFSA: “Prevent spillage from entering drains or waterways”… “The hazardous nature of fluorosilicic acid requires emergency and spill procedures to be effective to avoid both human and environmental exposure. Hazardous conditions may result if material is managed improperly…. Environmental precautions: Do not contaminate water.” “This material is hazardous to the aquatic environment. Keep out of sewers and waterways.”
http://www.fluoridefreepeel.
June 29th, 2000, Dr. William Hirzy, Senior Scientist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on his union’s opposition to water fluoridation: Dr. Hirzy was invited to give testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water on behalf of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) Chapter 280 – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Headquarters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Dr. Hirzy states: water fluoridation is a waste management strategy that has nothing to do with dental health. “If this stuff gets out into the air, it’s a pollutant; If it gets into the river, it’s a pollutant; if it gets into the lake, it’s a pollutant; But if it goes straight into your drinking water system, it’s not a pollutant. That’s amazing.”
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Dr. Robert Carton gave 20 years service to the EPA, was twice president of the EPA Professional Union: “EPA has more than enough evidence to shut down fluoridation right now.” “I basically accused EPA of scientific fraud.” http://www.fluoridefreepeel.
Drinking water standards allow for much higher concentrations of toxins than do environmental standards. Water fluoridation at 0.7 or 0.65 mg/L far exceeds the Canadian Water Quality Guideline of 0.12mg/L for fluoride.
Dr. James Sumner, 1946 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry: “Everybody knows that fluorine and fluorides are very poisonous substances and we use them in enzyme chemistry to poison enzymes. That is the reason things are poisoned, because the enzymes are poisoned and that is why animals and plants die.”