FLUORIDE DATE LECTURE #33 - A PRODUCTIVE JULY
Good afternoon, Mayor Leffingwell and Council members. A lot has happened lately. On July 1, celebrated natural health writer, Dr. Mercola, formally announced his commitment to ending water fluoridation nationwide. Further, he showcased Austin as one of three places with outstanding anti-fluoride movements underway (the other two being San Diego and Ontario, Canada.). It’s quite an honor to have created such a buzz with zero help from the Statesman or local network TV, and we are justly proud.
The very next day, Fluoride Free Austin experts met with the director of the Austin/Travis County Health Department, his chief medical officer, and Austin Water Utility employees to discuss possible ways of warning the public about the harm of mixing infant formula with fluoridated water. Health departments elsewhere, including the state of Vermont’s, have already taken that ethical step: Austin should too.
Linda Greene and I have just returned, energized, from the Fluoride Action Network's national conference in Canton, New York. The Fluoride Action Network—abbreviated to F-A-N, or FAN—the premiere organization opposing water fluoridation throughout North America. There we met a lot of very smart people with very good ideas. They included FAN’s director, Paul Connett, an environmental chemistry professor at St. Lawrence University. Dr. Connett has a book coming out soon called The Case Against Fluoride, which summarizes 80 years of fluoridation science and politics in a concise, readable way. He’ll be visiting Austin this fall, and will welcome opportunities to engage with the public, including city officials
As public resistance to water fluoridation builds—and it is—I would ask that City Council follow its own Environmental Board’s recommendation of last August 16 and December 2 to convene an impartial task force to revisit the subject. That has already been successfully done in other cities like Juneau, Alaska. A truly independent study group could shed light on both the outdated science and the conflicts of interest within organized dentistry that keep this misguided practice in place.
Only two votes are needed to set such a task force in motion. I urge you to do the right thing. Thank you.
Posted by M. Rae Nadler-Olenick at 7/30/2010 6:29 AM 
Categories: health wellness environment
Tags: Mercola fluoride water fluoridation Austin infants babies formula fluorosis
Categories: health wellness environment
Tags: Mercola fluoride water fluoridation Austin infants babies formula fluorosis
Ormond Beach dentists mayor Costello after being notified of the Nov 9 ADA egram did notify the public. A notice of warning was put on the website along with a warning in the city newsletter to all homes. This was by directive of the mayor and not a vote of the commission.
Later at my request again he allowed the directed the cable system to ran the same notice which ran to the entire county for two weeks on two public notice channels. Holly Hill also put a notice in the water bill back in 2007 of ADA infant formula warning.
Currently the health department will not warn of the risk. Same for WIC and healthy start after they were made aware of the risks.
The Daytona Times a black owned newspaper allowed me to write a guest article on the fluoridation issue.
The breast feeding people tend to be against most non natural things like fluoridation. Many are outspoken going back to nature.
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Good Information. What year was that?
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