Feds Look Into Fluoride’s Adverse Brain Effects
NYSCOF
It’s premature to accept fluoridation grant money offered by the NYS Department of Health or other government agencies. The US National Toxicology Program (NTP) plans to review hundreds of studies linking fluoride to adverse brain effects. The report won’t be finalized until 2018 and may signal an end to the fluoridation program nation-wide.
“It’s careless to put American's in harm’s way when important safety studies have yet to be done,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF)
According to attorney Michael Connett, Fluoride Action Network (FAN) Executive Director, "FAN has identified 314 studies that have investigated fluoride’s effects on the brain and nervous system. This includes 181 animal studies, 112 human studies, and 21 cell studies.
The majority of these studies were published after the 2006 National Research Council’s fluoride toxicology report concluded, "It is apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain."
Responding to the NTPs information request, FAN summarized the latest research in its letter, writing: “Since proponents of fluoridation like to claim that fluoride only reduces IQ at enormously high doses, we made sure to draw NTPs attention to 23 studies where IQ reductions were found at levels at, or below, EPA's current ‘safe’ drinking water level (4 ppm) for fluoride, with a few studies even finding IQ loss at the so-called ‘optimal’ levels that are added to water for fluoridation.”
“FAN's submission included a great deal of other information which every legislators should read before starting or continuing water fluoridation, for constituent safety,” says Beeber.
Our children are already fluoride-overdosed. Connett reveals “The rates of fluorosis have continued to rise since the early 2000s, as evident by the CDC’s 2011-2012 NHANES survey, which found that 57% of adolescents now have the condition, with a staggering 21% of adolescents displaying moderate fluorosis on at least two teeth, up from 2% in 1999-2004 Severe fluorosis has also increased, from < 1% to 2%.”
Dental fluorosis is white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth which occurs when children consume too much fluoride while their teeth are forming.
What is the NTP?
The NTP was established in 1978 to develop cutting-edge scientific tools to investigate "concerns about the human health effects of chemical agents in our environment." The NTP was created because "Many human diseases were thought to be directly or indirectly related to chemical exposures; therefore, it was thought that decreasing or eliminating human exposures to those chemicals would help prevent some human disease and disability."
On December 2, NTP's Board of Scientific Counselors held a hearing in which it considered the proposed fluoride/brain study Videotape is here.
At the hearing, Dr. Kristina Thayer, of NTP's Office of Health Assessment and Translation (OHAT), outlined the studies that NTP seeks to conduct on fluoride. These studies include (1) a systematic review of the existing research on fluoride's developmental neurotoxicity, including human, animal, and cellular studies, and (2) NTP's own animal experiments that will be conducted to clarify fluoride's effects on learning and memory and the doses that cause these effects.
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