Information
on the toxic effects of Fluoride
Cereals:
“[F]ood
processing often concentrates fluoride, and foods processed with fluoridated
water typically have higher fluoride concentrations than foods processed with
non-fluoridated water… A study that found marked differences between cereals
processed in fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas showed that cereals
processed in a fluoridated area had fluoride concentrations ranging from 3.8
ppm to 6.3 ppm…”
SOURCE: Warren
JJ, Levy SM. (2003). Current and future role of fluoride in nutrition. Dental
Clinics of North America 47: 225-43.
“[D]uring
manufacturing, infant dry cereals are processed in a slurry and placed in a
revolving drying drum. The water from the slurry evaporates, and the fluoride
from the water remains in the cereal. Thus, the fluoride concentration of the
water used during processing can substantially affect the final fluoride
concentration… Infants who eat large quantities of dry infant cereals reconstituted
with fluoridated water could ingest substantial quantities of fluoride from
this source.”
SOURCE: Heilman
JR, et al. (1997). Fluoride concentrations of infant foods. Journal of the
American Dental Association 128(7):857-63.
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Email from Fluoride Action Network:
DECEMBER 26, 2014
In 2013 David Kennedy produced
Fluoridegate: An American Tragedy, a classic documentary that is exquisite in
capturing the battle that raged over the downgrading of cancers in the fluoride
study overseen by the National Toxicology Program and published in 1990. Below
we reprint the comments made by William Marcus, the senior toxicologist at the
Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Drinking Water, on these
downgrades. Also, we add the comments from Stephen Kohn of the National
Whistleblowers Association who explained how the EPA went after Marcus with “a
vengeance… like he was an enemy of the state.”
Fluoridegate:
An American Tragedy
In 1977
the US Congress mandated the National Toxicology Program to conduct animal
studies to determine if fluoride causes cancer. Battelle Columbus Laboratories
were contracted to perform the studies that began in 1985 and ran for 2 years.
In 1988 Battelle submitted their final report that included the finding of a
dose-dependent increase of a rare liver cancer
(hepatocholangiocarcinoma) in male & female mice and a small but
statistically significant dose-related increase in osteosarcomas in male rats
but not in the female rats. For the rare liver cancer, the first scientist to
describe this cancer said that Battelle made a correct diagnosis. However, this
rare liver cancer was reclassified by a government review panel as a non-cancer
and one of the osteosarcomas was downgraded leading to the classification of
“equivocal evidence of cancer”. There were also increases in oral and thyroid
cancers, but they were not considered statistically significant.
The politics that raged
around this study.
William
Marcus, the senior scientist in the Office of Drinking Water at the
Environmental Protection Agency, expressed concerns about the “systematic
downgrading” of cancers in the 1990 published study and requested that the EPA
assemble an independent board of pathologists and others to review the data
produced in the study. In the 2013 documentary Fluoridegate: An American Tragedy, Marcus has this to say about the
study:
… rats
got cancer of the bone and they got a very unusual cancer of the liver. And
that was extremely surprising. First of all to produce cancer of the bone in
rodents is never seen because the time that you have between birth and death of
a rodent is only 3 ½ to four years and it usually takes longer than that to
produce a cancer in bone. The cancer of the liver is extremely rare … and the
fact that it happened meant that it was significant. This doesn’t happen. I
wrote this memo in which I claimed that I thought fluoride was a carcinogen and
that we had as much evidence with the animal studies to show that it was a
carcinogen as we had with any of the other compounds [that EPA studied] and
therefore should be treated as such.
Also,
three out of four in-vitro tests proved fluoride to be mutagenic, which Marcus
said supported “the conclusion that fluoride is a probable human carcinogen.”
The internal memorandum that Marcus wrote was leaked to the press. It caused
embarrassment to senior EPA officials and Marcus was fired.
“AN ENEMY OF THE STATE”
The National
Whistleblowers Association represented Marcus in his two trials against the EPA
and they won both. The EPA was forced to pay Marcus’ legal fees, 2 ½ years of
back pay, and an undisclosed sum for damages to his reputation.
In the
documentary Fluoridegate, produced in
2013, Stephen Kohn of the National Whistleblowers Association, stated:
… I do not know
why the agency (EPA) did what it did to Dr Marcus. But I do represent
whistleblowers and I can tell you they went after Dr Marcus with a vengeance, a
vengeance. He was a board certified toxicologist with years of seniority, the
most respected toxicologist in the agency with an international reputation.
When he wrote that memo they went after him like he was an enemy of the state.
They just hammered, and hammered, and hammered, and they went way over the line
by destroying evidence and obstructing justice. And even after we won the first
case where he was ordered reinstated they went after him again. And even though
there were 2 court rulings finding retaliation they never touched or
disciplined those agency officials involved. This case marks a black mark on
the EPA and raises fundamental issues about scientific freedom and about
fluoride and why this agency went against one of its most respected scientists
on that issue.
Robert Reich as
Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration upheld the decision of the
Administrative Law Judge in 1994 who said that “the true reason for the
discharge was retaliation.” Reich wrote that he found particularly disturbing
that the trumped-up charges against Marcus were accepted by his supervisors “in
the absence of any convincing documentation.”
Tomorrow, Dr
Hirzy will give more details of EPA’s lack of scientific integrity on the issue
of fluoride’s toxicity and its willingness to put politics over science on the
fluoridation debate.
Ellen Connett
Managing Director
Fluoride Action
Network
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