New York - October  2008 – “Fluoridation of drinking water is
scientifically untenable, and should not be part of a public health
initiative or program,” says the Canadian Association of Physicians
for the Environment (CAPE) in a new published statement.

CAPE is Canada’s leading voice on environmental health issues.
Fluoridation is the addition of fluoride chemicals as drugs (with side
effects) to public water supplies in a failed attempt to reduce tooth
decay.

Against a backdrop of intense opposition to the fluoridation of public
drinking water in several communities in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec,
CAPE asserts:

A) fluoridation is unlikely to be the cause of the cavity decline in
Europe and North America,

B) the potential for fluoride’s adverse effects is real, and

C) current evidence points in the direction of caution.

Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network says,
“CAPE joins a growing list of environmental health experts who have
called for an end to the fluoridation of public drinking water.

They include:

• Vyvyan Howard, MD, PhD, President, International Society of Doctors
for the Environment
• Ken Cook and Richard Wiles, Environmental Working  Group
• Lois Gibbs, Center for Health, Environment, and Justice
• Joseph Mercola, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
• Theo Colborn, PhD, co-author, “Our Stolen Future”
• Sam Epstein,  MD, Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition
• The current and six past Presidents of the International Academy of
Oral Medicine and  Toxicology
• Board of Directors (2007), American Academy of Environmental
Medicine
• FIVE Goldman Prize winners - given for excellence in protecting the
environment

These are among over 1800 professionals who have signed a statement
calling for an end to fluoridation worldwide see
http://www.FluorideAlert.org/professionals.statement.html

According to Connett, “Citizens facing well-financed efforts to
fluoridate their communities need to know that US governmental
agencies (particularly the CDC) are ignoring the voluminous body of
scientific evidence on the adverse effects of fluoride.  The National
Research Council of the National Academies published a landmark report
on these effects in 2006.  More than 2 years after its release, CDC
and fluoridation promoting agencies in Australia, Canada, Ireland,
Israel, New Zealand and the UK act as if this report was never
published. We urge communities to reject fluoridation proposals until
promoters can provide a rational scientific response to fluoride’s
dangers, which includes 23 peer-reviewed and published studies
indicating that fluoride can lower children’s IQ. Fluoridation exposes
infants to 250 times the level of fluoride in human breast milk. That
is reckless.”

CAPE’s statement is online at http://fluoridealert.org/cape.html

Take Action to Stop Fluoridation here:  http://congress.FluorideAction.Net

SOURCE:  Fluoride Action Network
http://www.FluorideAction.Net