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ALERT: EPA ACCEPTING COMMENTS ON PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD
I'm glad they don't have flouride in the title because at this point a lot of people just turn off to anything where people are saying that flouride is unhealthy because they associate that with a lot of other nutty stuff. If 7000 EPA employees are calling for limitations, you have to wonder.
ALERT: EPA ACCEPTING COMMENTS ON PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD
A coalition of health and environmental groups have filed a petition with the EPA, indicating the agency has violated federal laws for establishing allowable levels of fluoride pesticide residues in foods. The petition comes on the heels of over 7,000 EPA employees calling for stronger limitations of fluoride in food and water, as well as a recent report from the National Academy of Sciences indicating the average American diet has unsafe levels of fluoride. Specifically, the petitioners (including Fluoride Action Network, Beyond Pesticides and Environmental Working Group) are asking the EPA to prohibit the use of sulfuryl fluoride in food production. Elevated levels of fluoride are associated with bone fractures, thyroid function losses, IQ deficits, bone cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. The EPA has posted a public comment period on the issue ending August 4, 2006.
Learn more and take action here: http:http://www.organicconsumers.org/rd/fluoride.htm
A coalition of health and environmental groups have filed a petition with the EPA, indicating the agency has violated federal laws for establishing allowable levels of fluoride pesticide residues in foods. The petition comes on the heels of over 7,000 EPA employees calling for stronger limitations of fluoride in food and water, as well as a recent report from the National Academy of Sciences indicating the average American diet has unsafe levels of fluoride. Specifically, the petitioners (including Fluoride Action Network, Beyond Pesticides and Environmental Working Group) are asking the EPA to prohibit the use of sulfuryl fluoride in food production. Elevated levels of fluoride are associated with bone fractures, thyroid function losses, IQ deficits, bone cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. The EPA has posted a public comment period on the issue ending August 4, 2006.
Learn more and take action here: http:http://www.organicconsumers.org/rd/fluoride.htm
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Fluoride chemicals are not required additives for safer water supplies. They are essentially legislator-prescribed medication against tooth decay for everyone, sick or healthy; young or old; toothless or dentate; gallon water drinkers or non-water drinkers.
While disputes arise whether this is safe, effective or smart, all sides agree that too much fluoride is a bad thing. And unlike come vitamins and minerals, where huge amounts are unhealthy, just a little fluoride over what dentists' claim is "optimal" is dangerous. In fact, the CDC reports that from 1/3 to 1/2 of all US schoolchildren are fluoride overdosed and dsiplay dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow or brown and sometimes pitted teeth.
Prevention magazine has a chart that tells you the fluoride content of many foods
http://www.prevention.com/water/fluoride_home
New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
Fluoridation News Releases
http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu
Tooth Decay Crises in Fluoridated areas
http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com/
Fluoride Action Network
http://www.FluorideAction.Net
While disputes arise whether this is safe, effective or smart, all sides agree that too much fluoride is a bad thing. And unlike come vitamins and minerals, where huge amounts are unhealthy, just a little fluoride over what dentists' claim is "optimal" is dangerous. In fact, the CDC reports that from 1/3 to 1/2 of all US schoolchildren are fluoride overdosed and dsiplay dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow or brown and sometimes pitted teeth.
Prevention magazine has a chart that tells you the fluoride content of many foods
http://www.prevention.com/water/fluoride_home
New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
Fluoridation News Releases
http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu
Tooth Decay Crises in Fluoridated areas
http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com/
Fluoride Action Network
http://www.FluorideAction.Net
Here's another way one can take action on this:
Sign the online petition to EPA at:
http://actionstudio.org/?go=2367
Sign the online petition to EPA at:
http://actionstudio.org/?go=2367
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