MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH...THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER'S DISINGENUOUS REPORT
While Walt and I were getting our pictures taken, Austin Assistant City Manager Rudy Garza was signing off on a report "developed in response to concerns raised about the practice of water fluoridation during Citizen Communications at City Council meetings." The 16-page report - dated November 13 to be exact - is smug and self-congratulatory: the result of several month's work by a committee comprising representatives of the Austin Water Utility, the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department, the Watershed Protection Department, and the Law Department.
How the Environmental Board's August 19 recommendation that City Council set up an unbiased task force to re-examine the city's decades-old water fluoridation policy gave rise to a highly biased self-investigation committee out of the City Manager's office eludes me. Be that as it may, Garza's working group did nothing to seriously address "concerns raised about the practice of water fluoridation during Citizen Communications at City Council meetings." Rather, they retreated behind the comforting notion of. "best practices" Refusing to take into account that it's those same outdated standards that are being challenged, they consulted no independent authorities, cited no recent peer-reviewed scientific literature, and ignored all concerns about fluoride's well-known toxicity. Mainly, they rehashed language from classic promotional tracts like the ADA's Fluoridation Facts. http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/facts/fluoridation_facts.pdf. Their feel-good opus rubber-stamping the status quo smacks of bad faith. It settles nothing. Ignoring the elephant in the living room doesn't make it go away.
It's to be hoped that City Council won't let his sorry offering replace a real investigation. They have the power to act, and they should hasten to convene the independent advisory group the Environmental Board had in mind. They need to hear from experts who aren't lobbyists for fluoride, to learn about the health damage it causes and the good it doesn't do. After that, as somebody once said, all they have to do is turn off the tap. Amen.
Posted by M. Rae Nadler-Olenick at 11/19/2009 11:15 AM 
Categories: dental health wellness water environment
Tags: fluoride water fluoridation austin health wellness teeth dental teeth oral health a dental home
Categories: dental health wellness water environment
Tags: fluoride water fluoridation austin health wellness teeth dental teeth oral health a dental home
Dear M. Rae Nadler-Olenick, My Oral Surgeon advised me years ago not to use fluoridated toothpaste, but to brush with baking soda and salt. Before bedtime brush again and rinse mouth with warm salt water. Also to stimulate the gums between the teeth with "Stimudents" as that is where the blood doesn't get stimulated enough and gum diseases can start.
I have much literature on the dangers and would like to share with you via an email.
My brother, George Glasser, wrote "Charlie's Story" and is online in Weston A. Price Foundation site. It notes how unanticipated sources of fluorides were ignored before the 1970's when many children like my son that given soy-based infant formulas that were as high as 7.34 ppm in fluorides. The Journal of Dental Research, Special Issue, International Symposium on Fluorides, Vol. 69, Feb. 1990, has this fact in Drs. Pendrys and Stamm, page 533.
In my archaeological and paleontological book: The Geology of Florida, 1997, Univ. Press of Florida, page 143 gives the source of most fluoridation agents. "In addition to uranium, fluorine is an economical byproduct of phosphoric-acid production. The fluorine from the rock reacts with silica to form SiF4 gas. During acid production this gas is recovered as fluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6) in wet scrubbers that are part of the environmental-protection equipment. Fluorosilicic acid is widely used in the preparation of chemical compounds and in the treatment of public drinking water."
This 2 page report, 4th paragraph, gives the process and reasons for capturing the fluorine gases.
Florida Institute of Phosphate Research - FIPR Report 2003 ...
Overview of FIPR's Public & Environmental Health Program and Priorities with
current and .... Brian Birky has directed this area of research since 2000. ...
http://www.fipr.state.fl.us/FIPRreport2003/research-area-public-health2003.htm - 25k - Cached
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