PRESS RELEASE: 1 May, 2001. From National Pure Water Association Ltd., UK.
US GOVERNMENT AGENCIES SAY THAT FLUORIDE IN DRINKING WATER INCREASES THE TOXICITY OF ALUMINIUM.
In 1994, the New York Times reported a scientific study which revealed that aluminium and fluoride in water could be responsible for the alarming increase in Alzheimer's Disease and pre-senile dementia.
This confirmed the long-held suspicion of environmental writer George Glasser that fluoride has the ability to act synergistically with other toxic minerals in drinking water. Glasser, currently on speaking engagements in England, said: "For years I badgered various US government agencies to investigate this specific activity between fluoride and other substances, which is commonly seen in medicines. Aluminium sulphate is used to clarify drinking water and I could see the possible relationship with Alzheimer's-like dementia.".
Said Glasser, "In 1999, the US Environmental Protection Agency finally reviewed three studies carried out by scientists at Binghamton University. The scientists reported 80% death rates, kidney damage and brain damage in rats exposed to half of one milligramme of aluminium fluoride complexes in a litre of drinking water. This is less than half of the fluoride which is added in fluoridation schemes. Finally, the National Toxicology Program was asked to commission studies to determine the extent of neurotoxic damage from aluminium in drinking water, particularly stressing the fluoride interaction."
Last October, a Report by the National Institutes of Environmental Heath Sciences (NIEHS) acknowledged that fluoride has been observed to have synergistic effects on the toxicity of aluminium.
"I was particularly pleased when the US Environmental Protection Agency report by Urbansky and Schock on the toxicity of lead and fluoride in drinking water confirmed that fluoride complexes with other substances in the water. They also acknowledged that most drinking water contains a substantial amount of fluoro-aluminium complexes. This should be a warning to dentists who hold with the simplistic notion that fluoride only affects teeth and is perfectly safe in drinking water."
According to the NIEHS Report, most water treatment processes result in increased levels of aluminium in the finished drinking water. It stated that fluoridation will result in aluminium fluoride complexes which will enhance neurotoxicity, or that fluoride itself will enhance uptake and synergise the toxicity of the aluminium.
Other studies have shown that in the presence of fluoride, aluminium leaches out of cookware. Boiling fluoridated tap water in an aluminium pan leached almost 200 parts per million (ppm) of aluminium into the water in 10 minutes. Leaching of up to 600 ppm occurred with prolonged boiling. Different releases of aluminium depend upon the composition of the pan and the type of food being cooked. Using non-fluoridated water showed almost no leaching from aluminium pans.
Glasser is frustrated that the Report recommended further studies. "There are more than 40,000 studies on fluoride in the scientific literature. How many more do they need? The recent York review examined less than 300 - and they never bothered to review the Binghamton University studies. The incidence of Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's-like dementia is hitting people at much younger ages. The average age used to be 65 -- now, it affects people in their forties in ever-increasing numbers. With these revelations, health authorities have a moral obligation to employ the precautionary principle and cease the practice of artificial fluoridation forthwith. In the meantime, six million people in England and about 160 million in the United States drink artificially fluoridated water. " ends/
US Government Documented References:
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/water/phg/pdf/Alumin.pdf
http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/Chem_Background/ExSumPdf/Aluminumalt.pdf.
George Glasser articles:
http://home.att.net/~gtigerclaw/dead_rats.html
http://home.att.net/~gtigerclaw/newsletter/Increasing_Alzheimer.htm
Contacts: George Glasser (currently in UK): Tel: 01924 254433
g_tigerclaw@npwa.freeserve.co.uk
Jane Jones, Campaign Director, National Pure Water Association Ltd.
01924 254433
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