Approximately half of the United States' drinking water supply is fluoridated in
an attempt to reduce dental cavities in children. Is this state of affairs
justified? Is it safe?
Most Americans are unaware of the dangers of ingesting fluoride.
Most dentists, physicians and scientists are unaware of the dangers of fluoride
and water fluoridation. According to a 1988 article in the prestigious Chemical
and Engineering News, scientific voices of opposition to fluoridation have been
suppressed, since 1950 when the U.S. Public Health Service first endorsed
fluoridation. Power tactics including threats, ridicule and frank censorship
aimed at scientists and clinicians knowledgeable about fluoridation have
prevented the truth about fluoride to be disseminated to the science world as
well as to the public. Whenever a public agency is charged with objectively
evaluating the safety of a procedure while at the same time endorsing and
recommending it, a serious conflict of interest is set up. This is exactly the
position of the U.S. Public Health Service for the past 44 years.
Facts About Fluoride
So, what are some of the facts about fluoride? According to the handbook,
Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products, fluoride is more poisonous than lead
and just slightly less poisonous than arsenic. It is a cumulative poison that
accumulates in bone over the years. According to the Physicians Desk Reference,
"in hypersensitive individuals, fluorides occasionally cause skin eruptions
such as atopic dermatitis, eczema, or urticaria. Gastric distress, headache, and
weakness have also been reported. These hypersensitive reactions usually
disappear promptly after discontinuation of the fluoride."
From 1990 to 1992, the Journal of the American Medical Association published
three separate articles linking increased hip fracture rates to fluoride in the
water. In the March 22, 1990 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Mayo
Clinic researchers reported that fluoride treatment of osteoporosis increased
hip fracture rate and bone fragility.
A study by Procter and Gamble showed that as little as half the amount of
fluoride used to fluoridate public water supplies resulted in a sizable and
significant increase in genetic damage. Epidemiology research in the mid-1970's
by the late Dr. Dean Burk, head of the cytochemistry division of the National
Cancer Institute, indicated that 10,000 or more fluoridation-linked cancer
deaths occur yearly in the United States. In 1989, the ability of fluoride to
transform normal cells into cancer cells was confirmed by Argonne National
Laboratories. Results released in 1989 of studies carried out at the prestigious
Batelle Research Institute showed that fluoride was linked to a rare form of
liver cancer in mice, oral tumors and cancers in rats, and bone cancer in male
rats. Since 1991, the New Jersey Department of Health found that the incidence
of osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, was far higher in young men exposed to
fluoridated water as compared to those who were not.
In addition to the well documented toxic effects of fluoride, fluoride even
at dosages of 1 part per million, found in artificially fluoridated water, can
inhibit enzyme systems, damage the immune system, contribute to calcification of
soft tissues, worsen arthritis and, of course, cause dental fluorosis in
children. These are unsightly white, yellow or brown spots that are found in
teeth exposed to fluoride during childhood. In 1993, the Subcommittee on Health
Effects of Ingested Fluoride of the National Research Council admitted that 8%
to 51% and sometimes up to 80% of the children living in fluoridated areas have
dental fluorosis. Malnourished people, particularly children, usually targeted
for fluoridation, are at greater risks to experience fluoride's harmful effects.
Surprisingly, the most recent studies do not even show that water
fluoridation is effective in reducing tooth decay. In the largest U.S. study of
fluoridation and tooth decay, United States Public Health Service dental records
of over 39,000 school children, ages 5-17, from 84 areas around the United
States showed that the number of decayed, missing, and filled teeth per child
was virtually the same in fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas. Dr. John
Colquhoun, former Chief Dental Officer of the Department of Health for Auckland,
New Zealand, investigated tooth decay statistics from about 60,000 12 to 13 year
old children and showed that fluoridation had no significant effect on tooth
Given all of this scientific information, what is behind this push for
universal fluoridation? Prior to 1945, fluoride was properly regarded as an
environmental pollutant. It was responsible for many lawsuits against
industries, such as the aluminum industry and the phosphate fertilizer industry,
whose waste products contain large quantities of fluoride. This fluoride
destroyed crops and animals, leading to the lawsuits. The limited public view
was that fluoride was an environmental pollutant that needed to be reduced or
eliminated from the environment.
As a result of clever public relations campaigns, fluoride was transformed
from an environmental pollutant to an essential nutrient necessary for producing
healthy teeth. The science was poor, but the P.R. campaign was great. Being
against fluoride was like being against motherhood or apple pie. Industries not
only made millions from selling this environmental pollutant to water companies
and toothpaste companies, but more importantly, it saved billions of dollars
that would be required to clean up this environmental pollutant.
So, what can you do to protect yourself from fluoride?
fluoridated water. Much of the metropolitan area, including New York City water
is artificially fluoridated. Boiling water removes chlorine, but concentrates
fluoride. Water filters do not remove fluoride, unless there is a reverse
osmosis component. Children should avoid fluoridated vitamins and fluoride
treatments at the dentist. Everyone should avoid fluoridated toothpaste. The
concentration of fluoride in water is 1 ppm, in toothpaste 1,000 ppm and in
fluoride dental rinses 10,000 ppm. Work on your legislators to get fluoride out
of the water supplies.
This story has a beginning, it has a middle but it has no ending. The
'ending' will undoubtedly be written in countless hospital records, on tiny
gravestones, in the bones of the crippled and on the hearts of the bereaved.
Even so, the true cause of the 'ending' will never be advertised. One record
that slipped past the establishment net is duplicated herein but, believe it or
not, the existence of this 'death certificate' has been denied, in writing and
to overseas scientific inquiry, by Australian administrators.
What follows is but a fractional part of the 'middle' of a story that began
before the turn of the century and which was provoked by a statement contained
in an "Address in Reply to the Governor's Speech to Parliament", as recorded in
Victorian Hansard of 12 August 1987, by Mr. Harley Rivers Dickinson, Liberal
Party Member of the Victorian Parliament for South Barwon. Hence the title.
The relevant Hansard abstract is reproduced herewith. It is emphasized that
the writer imputes Mr. Dickinson with no other responsibility for the contents of
this thesis than being the parliamentary 'trigger' which motivated it and the
researched data which it contains.
"At the end of the Second World War, the United States Government sent
Charles Eliot Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology
and pathology, to take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in Germany.
"While there he was told by German chemists of a scheme which had been
worked out by them during the war and adopted by the German General Staff.
"This was to control the population in any given
area through mass medication of drinking water. In this scheme, sodium fluoride
occupied a prominent place.
"Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time
reduce an individual's power to resist domination by slowly poisoning and
narcotizing a certain area of the brain and will thus make him submissive to the
will of those who wish to govern him. "Both the Germans and the Russians added
sodium fluoride to the drinking water of prisoners of war to make them stupid
In a book written by Dr Hans Moolenburgh of Haarlem, Holland, called Fluoride
- The Freedom Fight, the author describes the ultimately successful endeavors
to free the Dutch people from water
endeavors included the only properly conducted double-blind study ever done
anywhere in the world into the effects of tap water [1 p.p.m.].)
One brief passage is headed "Perkins", and a reproduction of that section
gives sufficient confirmation, by a remote and independent source, of the
"Dickenson Statement" as printed in Hansard, to reinforce the need for
additional investigation into this one 'behaviour control' aspect of the
'fluoride debate' and relate it to 1987. (The entire "Perkins" paragraph is
Elsewhere in this book, Dr Moolenburgh also relates how that first "Perkins"
anecdote was confirmed in differing ways and from reliable independent sources.
"When 1971 was drawing to a close, I received a paper containing a
strange story. This story was to haunt us repeatedly throughout the long,
drawn-out battle. It was a story resembling science fiction - bizarre and
unbelievable. There are those who warned me not to even mention this story, and
I can appreciate why. On the other hand, the task of an historian is not to
relate things as they should have happened, but as they actually did happen.
"...The Perkins saga was different from other fluoride stories.
"The story of industries hoodwinking the public into buying a pollutant
as a medicine is simply 'whodunnit'. Grotesque though it may sound, it is no
more that 'the consumer fraud of this polluted century' (as described in
Fluoridation and Truth
Decay by Gladys Caldwell). But the story I now read was different: it gave one
the cold shivers. It told of a chemical engineer, Mr. Perkins, who related how
immediately after the Second World War he was one the Americans put into the
well-known I.G.Farben Company in Germany. There he
discovered that I.G.Farben had developed plans during the war to fluoridate the
occupied countries, because it had been found that
slight damage to specific parts of the brain. This damage had a very particular
effect. It mad it more difficult for the person affected to defend his freedom.
He became more docile towards authority.
"Scientists in the camps of both opponents and proponents of fluoride
have always dismissed this story as mere poppycock, but it had a life of its own
and reared its head time and again. It fed the suspicions of many people that
'there was more to
fluoridation than meets the eye'.
"As far as I know, there is no one who has done any serious research
into whether the fluoridated person is really more docile, easier to rule, more
impressed by authority than the non-fluoridated one. There is, though, one
peculiar thing: every Dutch doctor has a medical reference book for 1984. One of
the chapters is entitled "Tranquillisers". Looking at the "minor
I find twenty-four substances: their chemical formulae do not show any
connection with fluoride. However, there is also a heading ,
"major Tranquillisers". Of those there are twenty-seven, and seven of them are a
fluoride compound. One of these is Semap. It is one of the strongest
anti-psychotic substances we know. This means that twenty-five per cent of the
major Tranquillisers are connected with fluoride. I do not draw any conclusions.
The only thing one can say at this point is, with Alice: 'curiouser and
Actually there is little that is novel in the concept of controlling the
minds and manners of the multitude by chemical/dietary means. That it was
practised by Hitler's regime is made the more credible when we know that as far
back as 1938 the US Government, and ally to boot, and the government of a
democratic Christian country, was considering the transformation of American
citizens and others into 'zombies' by a number of proposed techniques. The US
Army searched for "the perfect incapacitating agent", according to General
Fellenz, "to put in the enemy's water supply". Included in the drugs tested were
the hallucinogenic LSD and the amnesiac BZ (10 times more potent than LSD), and
a "schizophrenic agent called bulbocapine".
The "Rockefeller Report" to the United States President on CIA activities
said: "The drug program was part of a much larger CIA program to study possible
means of controlling human behaviour".
One drug which received special attention in the 'fifties and early 'sixties,
under the cryptonym of MK-ULTRA, was suxamethonium chloride (listed under a
number of product names including Anectine), a halogenated anti-cholinergic
agent with all the symptomatic side-effects up to and including cardiac arrest
ascribed to these agents in the medical literature.
Please retain the term "anti-cholinergic agent" in mind , for owing to the
health implications attendant on this particular anti-metabolic activity, it
figures repeatedly in this thesis.
Note: An adviser to the US Government on hypnotism or psychological behaviour
control, Dr George Estabrooks, later became Chairman, Department of Psychology,
Colgate University. Internationally, Colgate was and remains the most ardent
producer and advocate for the fluorination of a domestic product - fluoridated
Now, should the reader's mind be already boggled to the point of disbelief,
there are two facts which, if known about and/or remembered, may instill
sufficient confidence in that which is even more 'boggling' and is yet to come.
Bromine (or bromide) tea was administered to the enlisted men during the
First and second World Wars.
The halogen (bromine) ingredients was said to quell the libido of the men and
thus limit likely forays into the 'dens of iniquity' and the acquisition of
The second fact is that, today, all Australian military establishments
provide their own halogenated (fluoridated) water for the troops resident
therein, for the official reason that the element is good for developing teeth.
Either we have a very immature military force, all under that of twelve years
when the mythical effect of fluoride ceases to exist, or else there is another
more obscure, less altruistic reason for this drug 'treatment' of the troops.
Later on in this text we will recall certain happenings relative to
ex-trainees from those establishments and the paradoxical effects of fluorides
on behaviour of the human being.
The Parliamentary "Dickenson Statement" refers to "the vast Farben chemical
plants in Germany".
It has been said by Anthony C. Sutton in his book, Wall Street and the Rise
of Hitler: "Without the capital supplied by Wall Street, there would have been
no I. G. Farben in the first place, and almost certainly no Adolph Hitler and
World War II."
Interssen Gemeinschaft Farben (Interessen Gemeinschaft der Deutschen
Teerfarbeninduistrie, or, simply, I.G. Farben) was a German chemical
manufacturing concern that supplied the chlorine gas used by Germany during the
First World War, but the eventual creation of the huge I.G.Farben cartel began
in 1924 when American bankers began to arrange foreign loans in what Professor
Carroll Quigley terms "the Dawes Plan", "largely a J.P. Morgan production"/
In 1928 Henry Ford merged his German assets with I.G. Farben, to be followed
by the American Standard Oil Company (the Rockefellers) who, in concert with
I.G.Farben, developed the coal-to-oil hydrogenation process.
In a letter to Roosevelt from Berlin in the early 'thirties, the US
Ambassador in Germany, William Dodd, said:
"At the present moment, more than a hundred American corporations have
subsidiaries here or cooperative understandings.
"The DuPonts have their allies in Germany that are aiding in the
armament business. Their chief ally is the I.G. Farben Company, a part of the
government which gives 200,000 marks a year to one propaganda organization
operating on American opinion.
"Standard Oil Company ... sent US$500,000 a year helping Germans make
ersatz [a substitute] gas [the hydrogenation process of converting coal to
gasoline] for war purposes; but Standard Oil cannot take any of its earnings out
of the country except in goods.
"The International Harvester Company president told me their business
here rose 33% a year [arms manufacture, I believe], they could take nothing out.
"Even our airplanes people have secret arrangements with Krupps.
"General Motors Company and Ford do enormous business here through
their subsidiaries and take no profits out."
The I.G. Farben assets in America were controlled by a holding company,
American I.G. Farben, which listed on its Board of Directors: Edsel Ford,
President of the Ford Motor Company; Chas. E. Mitchell, President of
Rockefeller's National City Bank of New York; Walter Teagle, President of
Standard Oil of New York; Paul Warburg, Chairman of the Federal Reserve and
brother of Max Warburg, financier of Germany's war effort; and Herman Metz, a
Director of the Bank of Manhattan, controlled by the Warburgs.
It is an interesting fact of history that three other members of the Board of
American I.G. Farben were tried and convicted as German "war criminals" for
their "crimes against humanity" during World War II, while serving on the I.G.
Farben Board of Governors. None of the Americans who sat on the same board as
those convicted was ever tried as a "war criminal".
Throughout the entire second World War conflict, not one bomb fell on the I.G.
Farben headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, allegedly as a consequence of Allied
In 1938, I.G. Farben borrowed 500 tons of tetra-ethyl lead, the gasoline
additive, from Standard Oil.
During 1939, the year Germany invaded Austria and Poland, the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey loaned I.G. Farben US$20,000,000 worth of high-grade
In 1939 the American Aluminum Company (Alcoa), then probably the world's
largest producer of sodium fluoride, transferred its technology to Germany (the
Alted Agreement). The Dow Chemical Company transmitted its experience and
technology in that same period.
Germany's two largest tank manufacturers were Opel, a subsidiary of General
Motors (J.P. Morgan), and the German subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company.
Even with the purchase of oil from non-German sources, the major supplier of
oil was still the Farben cartel. The I.G. Farben cartel a monopoly on German
gasoline production. Just under one half of the Germans' high-octane gasoline in
1945 was produced directly by I.G. Farben, and most of the balance by its
So, in 1941 when cylinders of Zyklon B, the deadly cyanide-based
extermination gas made by I.G. Farben, were lethally unvalved on inmates of
Auschwitz, Bitterfeld, Walfen, Hoechst, Agfa, Ludwigshafen and Buchenwald, there
were more than substantial links between huge American technology and German
Two questions must be asked here: (a) Was I.G. Farben associated with the
formulation of Sarin and/or Soman, the German-developed fluorinated nerve gases
that made Zyklon B little more than an underarm deodorant by comparison?; and
(b) What of I.G. Farben today?
The answer to (a) is an unequivocal yes! As for (b), I.G. Farben signed
cartel agreements with such companies as Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI),
Borden , Carnation, General Mill, M.W. Kellogg Co., Nestlé and Pet Milk, and I.
G. Farben either owns outright, has had a substantial interest in or has had
other cartel agreements with Owl Drug, Parke-Davis and Co., Bayer and Co.,
Whitehall Laboratories, Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee Foods, Bristol Meyers and Squibb and
Sons. The list goes on and on and on and includes Proctor and Gamble who
'domesticated' the word "fluoride" with official encouragement in 1958, being
the originators of the infamous "Crest" fluoridated toothpaste campaign.
The only reference to "Farben" traceable in a limited search of modern
literature was in 25th Edition of Martindale, under "F.B.A. Pharmaceutical
Limited; Products of Farbenfabriken Bayer".
All corporate traces of the Hugh I.G. cartel have been absorbed by the
hundreds, if not thousands, of one-time cartel members, but the 'malady lingers
In Australia, the Dental Health and Research Foundation which has such names
as Colgate, Kellogg and the ex-I.G. Farben associates listed among its governors
and contributors has been irreverently but accurate dubbed "the fluoride mafia".
Closely allied with this Sydney University 'foundation' into the halogen
fluoride, its benefits and its hazards, have never been made available despite
numerous appeals. An ABC science show's examination of the scientific integrity
of Foundation 41 may explain the elusive (or is the word illusory?) data.
America is literally bursting at the seams with such foundations, were The
Rockefeller Foundation, The Carnegie Foundation and The Ford Foundation. It is
necessary to mention these specifically because they were the first foundations
to make grants in the population (control) field, and the Carnegie family merged
with the Mellon family Institute to create the Carnegie-Mellon University in
Pittsburgh in 1967.
The Mellon family were the founders of the original Mellon Institute whence
came the "amazing (but totally fallacious) sodium fluoride/dental caries
prevention discovery" - the discovery that literally turned 'garbage into gold'.
The Mellon family also founded the American Aluminum Company (Alcoa), the
largest producer of the waste toxin, sodium fluoride, which, up to this point of
'caries discovery', had relatively little known commercial or industrial value,
was an environmental hazard of great public concern, and was very costly in
terms of safe disposal.
So we retrace our steps to the "Dickenson Statement" in Hansard and Chas
In a letter abstracted from
Lawlessness (published by the Committee for Mental Health and National Security)
to the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 2nd
October 1954, a Charles Eliot Perkins, scientist and author of Washington, DC,
and, one must assume, the same Charles Eliot Perkins of the "Dickenson
Statement" to the Victorian Parliament, said this (and the words of the last two
lines of the second paragraph cannot be overemphasised): "We are told by
the fanatical ideologists who are advocating the
fluoridation of the water
supplies in this country that their purpose is to reduce the incidence of tooth
decay in children, and it is the plausibility of this excuse, plus the
gullibility of the public and the cupidity of public officials that is
responsible for the present spread of artificial water
fluoridation in this
"However - and I want to make this very definite and positive - the
real reason behind water
fluoridation not to benefit children's teeth. If this were the real reason,
there are many ways in which it could be done which are much easier, cheaper and
far more effective. The real purpose behind water
fluoridation is to reduce
the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty ...
Nazis, under Hitler,
decided to go into Poland ... the German General Staff and the Russian General
Staff exchanged scientific and military ideas, plans and personnel and the
scheme of mass control through water medication was seized upon by the Russian
Communists because it fitted ideally into their plan to communise the world ...
"I say this in all earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has
spent nearly 20 years research into the chemistry, Bo-chemistry, physiology and
pathology and pathology of fluorine: any person who drinks artificially
fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same
person, mentally or physically."
Mr. Perkins does not involve America, American institutions or individuals in
his assertions, but when Major George Racy Jordan was in charge of the
massive 'lend-lease airlift' operations from Great Falls, Montana, to Russia via
Alaska, he queried the transshipment of considerable amounts of sodium
fluoride via Fairbanks, Alaska, to Russia. He was told "frankly" that it
was to put into the drinking water in the prisoner-of-war camps to take away
their will to resist.
The published knowledge that sodium fluoride was known for this mind - and
behaviour - changing potential was available at the start of this century, as
witness such entries as "Fluoricum Acidum" (Encyclopedia of Pure 'Materia
Medica', vol. ix, p. 333).
America has long been interested in behaviour and mind control by chemical
means. Americans who were at once financiers, industrialists and population -
control advocates were intimately involved with Germany where chemical
extermination and chemical behaviour control by, inter alia, sodium fluoride,
were placed into practice. America transferred this knowledge and material,
inter alia, to Russia during its 'lend-lease' co-operation. An American major
producer of aluminum was the world's major source of sodium fluoride. American
'education and research' funded by (a) the major sodium fluoride producer, and
(b) a 'foundation' involved in population control, was the origin of 'the dental
caries prevention myth' associated with sodium fluoride.
A predominantly American company was the first to exploit this concept in
dentifrice production, and American 'medical research' figured largely in the
'fluorination' processes that converted the negative embarrassment of mounting
industrial waste to huge positive profit increases - processes that other
countries hastened to emulate; processes which include the enormous outlet for
fluorides in the fluoridation
of water supplies.
Although fertiliser production has not been a part of this thesis, the
following 'connections' with this point should be made. The manufacturing
processes for synthetic dyes, explosives and fertiliser are almost chemically
synonymous, and I.G. Farben was expert in all production phases of these
'necessities'. Sodium silico-fluoride was a waste constituent from the refining
of phosphate rock, until a 'use' could be found or created for the waste.
A letter (reproduced on page 28) from the United States Environmental
Protection Agency throws the spotlight on the unique 'waste disposal via the
public kidney' concept that was created.
The question raised by the Hansard "Dickinson Statement", and perhaps
aggravated by this dissertation and data, is this: Was the Australian
Government, in 1962-3 when it illegally (Australian Constitution, Section 51 [xxiiiA])
of water supplies" to Australia, aware of its grotesque actions and of the grave
results? The 'shonky' method of introducing, plus legal and official
correspondence at that time, indicates in the affirmative.
Was the Crisp Royal Commission, when it 'found' in favour in
incidentally, in favour of the major polluter and producer of fluoride in
Tasmania (Electrolytic Zinc Corp., Risdon, Hobart), aware of the consequences of
any such favourable findings? Conditions then and since mingle with some
incredible documented coincidences, and unbelievable but documented official
behaviour, including that of premiers and health ministers, and the paucity of
current State parliamentary investigations into fluorine-based environment
problems, to convince the most skeptical that it was.
Was the Victorian Premier (Sir Rupert Hamer, who was later to publicly
declare the dictatorial credo, "It was always tempting to override the people
and impose a new order"), aware of these background facts when he instituted
fluoridation legislation and a subsequent fraudulently conceived and
executed cover-up "inquiry"? (Ballarat Courier, 6 October 1982) Irrespective of
the obviously familial supplier advantages, it seems certain that he was certain
that he was so aware. Widespread publicity regarding subsequent alleged complex
land company fraud transactions would seemingly underwrite the existence of the
necessary character attributes to perform as implied.
Are the lies, denials, fabrications and evasions evident in Geelong with two
fluoride pollution sources (aluminum smelting and fertiliser production), and
Portland with ditto sources, no more than "job protection" and "rate protection"
scares as is claimed, or is there a deeper, wider federal or international
instructional background behind the unmonitored pollution, with the health
detriment there from and the 'secrecy legislation' invoked for the Victorian
[Was] Mrs. Thatcher's astronomical expenditure of United Kingdom revenue on a
fluoridation campaign in
Northern Ireland a matronly concern for the youngsters' teeth, or perhaps an
attempt to sedate the people and render them subservient to her autocratic
dictates? Remember this. Mrs. Thatcher has a background of academic chemistry and
would be far from ignorant of the tranquillising effects of the halogens and
Similarly, her legal and political shenanigans (that is the only word to
describe her behaviour) in the England
fluoridation scene offer
many avenues for questioning of her motives.
Are the lies, fabrications, omissions, evasions and official hysteria in the
federal government and bureaucracy at the very mention of fluorides, fluoride
pollution or water
fluoridation, also common to the state governments and bureaucracies, and
repeatedly backed up by the most lunatic science (as witness, the ministerially
approved and internationally derided propaganda from the National Health and
Medical Research Council), royal and vice-regal intransigence, a frightening
exhibition of this grim foreknowledge, all of which has abundant documentary
support, or simply no more than dastardly coincidence?
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Washington , D.C. 20460
MAR 30 1983
OFFICE OF WATER
Leslie A.Russell, D.M.D.
363 Walnut Street
Newtonville, Mass. 02160
Dear Dr Russell:
Thank you for you letter of March 9, 1983, in regard to the
fluoridation of drinking
The information available to the Environmental Protection Agency is that
fluoridation is a safe
and effective means for reducing the occurrence of dental caries. The
fluoridation process has
been endorsed by several Presidents of the United States and by several Surgeons
General, including the current Surgeon General, Dr C. Everett Koop. A copy of Dr
Koop's statement on
fluoridation is enclosed.
Water treatment chemicals, including fluosilicic acid, have been evaluated
for their potential for contributing to the contamination of drinking water. The
Water Treatment Chemicals Codex, published by the National Academy of Sciences,
prescribes the purity requirement for fluosilicic acid and other
In regard to the use of fluosilicic acid as a source of fluoride for
fluoridation, this Agency
regards such use as an ideal environmental solution to a long-standing problem.
By recovering by-product fluosilicic acid from fertiliser manufacturing, water
and air pollution are minimized, and water utilities have a low-cost source of
fluoride available to them. I hope this information adequately responds to your
Administrator for Water
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