http://www.geofjoan.demon.co.uk/chem_sen/halogen.html
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"The plain fact that fluorine is an insidious poison,
harmful, toxic and cumulative in its effects, even when ingested in minimal
amounts, will remain unchanged no matter how many times it will be repeated
in print that fluoridation of the water supply is 'safe'." Ludwig
Gross, M.D., former Chief of Veterans Administration Cancer Research, Bronx,
NY.
For the past 50 years the US public has been very convincingly persuaded
to ignore the fluoride issue, but the serious facts about this issue keep
repeating, and the situation appears to be degrading.
The growing widespread concern over public apathy, rising health concerns,
and the apparent stupidity of our school children keeps mounting. This
fluoride issue is offered as one of several possible important answers
to that problem.
THE HALOGENS:
The Halogen family consists of five chemical elements: Fluorine, Chlorine,
Bromine, Iodine and Astatine. (Chlorine and Fluorine are chief ingredients
of the CFC's, that are causing the current controversy with the ozone holes.)
Depending upon use and dosage, the Halogens have a varying effect on the
human mind, nervous system and metabolism. For example one of the most
popular current hospital anesthetics, "Halothane", contains Fluorine,
Chlorine, and Bromine.
BROMINE
--The Australians reportedly issued Bromide tea to their soldiers in World
War II, to decrease their sex urge and thus lower the incidence of VD.
--Per a recent Internet search, investigators looking into the Gulf War
Syndrome found that all 695,000 troops in the Persian Gulf War were involuntarily
administered the unproven, experimental toxicity-enhancer, Pyridostigmine
Bromide (PB) supposedly as a nerve agent pre-treatment medication. Officials
estimated that approximately two-thirds of those troops took the drug for
varying periods of time. However, DoD scientists who studied Pyridostigmine
and nerve agent Sarin concluded that PB should only be used when the threat
is nerve agent Soman; Pyridostigmine pre-treatment unfortunately makes
individuals MORE vulnerable to Sarin. Defense intelligence knew before
the war that Iraq did not manufacture, stockpile, or use Soman; just one
Iraqi chemical plant was estimated to produce up to TWO TONS of Sarin per
day, however.
CHLORINE
--Chlorine Gas and chlorine-bearing Mustard gas were feared in Europe in
World War I, and they are still currently in the chemical-warfare arsenal
of many countries. Chlorine gas was reportedly released in Iraq during
the Gulf War.
--Chlorine is widely added to U.S. drinking water today for the sole purpose
of killing something, while natural water oxygenation treatments as used
in Europe are much more safe for human consumption.
FLUORINE
--Fluorine is the most highly-reactive and chemically unstable of ALL existing
chemical elements. Fluorine is not found by itself in nature, because it
is so unstable that it chemically combines--violently, in many cases--with
practically any other element.
--Fluorine has the strongest effect of all the halogens. Fluorine is one
of the major ingredients in the controversial psycho-active psychiatric
drug PROZAC (Fluoxetene Hydrochloride), and also in deadly Sarin military
nerve gas, U.S. designation GB. (Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl Fluoride).
--While one lethal dose of Sarin would fit on the head of a pin, the U.S.
arsenal stockpiles literally billions of lethal doses. In just two examples,
10 million pounds of sarin are stored in weapons at the Tooele, Utah Army
Depot, and another 550,000 pounds are in the Blue Grass Army Depot near
Richmond, Kentucky. (Page A4, Anchorage Daily News, Tuesday, 23 January
96.) Other countries--especially Russia--also have comparable stockpiles
of nerve agents, if not more. Chemical Warfare (CW) research and manufacture
is ongoing.
--The nerve-gas Soman (GD) is chemically similar to Sarin (GB), and they
both contain fluorine. They are called "nerve" agents because
they directly attack and destroy the nervous system. According to an EPA
report (following), once you remove the fluorine from Sarin, all that remains
is a non-toxic acid. In other words, fluorine--the same fluorine that is
in our drinking water--is what gives sarin its "kick".
--The U.S. was openly selling nerve gas ingredients to Iraq as late as
1984, until the State Department banned the export of certain chemical
substances to Iraq: "U.S. Halts Shipment of Chemicals to Iraq (AP)
WASHINGTON - U.S. Customs agents in New York impounded a shipment of 74
drums of potassium fluoride, a principal ingredient of a deadly form of
nerve gas, to Iraq, the Customs Service said Saturday. . ." (Page
1, Battle Creek Enquirer, 1 April 1984). The shipment was destined
for the "Ministry of Pesticides" in Baghdad. No mention was made
of the quantity of such chemicals that had been sold to Iraq before the
ban.
--Details on nerve warfare agents can be found at this website:
http://www.opcw.nl/chemhaz/nerve.htm
--The infamous date-rape hypnotic drug "Roofs" (Rohypnol)
is fluorinated Valium, which is reportedly 20-30 times more potent than
Valium alone. Note the following article: "DEA WANTS 'DATE RAPE' DRUG
CLASSIFIED. Washington - An illegal sedative nicknamed the "date rape"
drug should be put in the same category as heroin, cocaine and LSD in the
next three months, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday. The
agency recommended that Rohypnol, connected to more than 2,400 criminal
investigations nationwide, be declared a Schedule 1 drug, DEA spokesman
Jim McGivney said." (Page 6, Anchorage Daily News, June 21, 1996.)
--Fluorine is widely added to drinking water today strictly as mass-medication,
supposedly to help the teeth of children under 14 years of age. In spite
of the initial stated purpose of "helping the teeth of children under
14", our military bases were among the first drinking water supplies
to be involuntarily fluoridated over 40 years ago. Over 60% of the U.S.
fresh water supplies are currently fluoridated, and according to pro-fluoride
promotional literature, current plans are to increase this to over 90%
within just a few years.
--Note the following entry in an EPA/NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health) Hazardous Waste book, on page 3066 under SODIUM FLUORIDE:
"An experimental tumorigen [deliberately used to cause cancer in laboratory
experiments] and teratogen [deliberately used to cause monstrous abnormalities
in lab experiments]. Human system overdose effects: Burning, prickling,
tingling, itching of the skin, drooping of the eyelid, tremors, extra fluid
intake, muscle weakness, headache, EKG [brainwave] changes, cyanosis [bluish
skin color from inadequate oxygen], respiratory depression, hypermotility
[extremely physically active], diarrhea, nausea or vomiting, salivary gland
changes, changes in teeth and supporting structures, musculo-skeletal changes,
increased immune system response, and human mutatogenic data [mutates human
cells, in other words]. A corrosive irritant to eyes and mucous membranes.
Experimental reproductive effects. It is very phytotoxic [toxic to plant
life]. Used in chemical cleaning, for fluoridation of drinking water, as
a fungicide and insecticide. ... May be a carcinogen."
--In the same reference, page 1735 under FLUORIDES: "Can cause or
aggravate attacks of asthma and severe bone changes, making normal movements
painful. Some signs of pulmonary fibrosis are noted. Some enzyme systems
effects are reported. Loss of weight, anorexia [loss of appetite], anemia,
wasting and cachexia [general wasting of the body during a chronic disease],
and dental defects are among the common findings in chronic fluoride poisoning.
Symptoms of intoxication include gastric, intestinal, circulatory, respiratory
and nervous complaints and skin rashes."
FLUORIDE
A FLUORIDE is a combination of the chemical element Fluorine with some
other substance.
Sodium fluoride, a hazardous-waste by-product from the manufacture of aluminum,
is a common ingredient in rat and cockroach poisons, anesthetics, hypnotics,
psychiatric drugs, military nerve gas, and U.S. drinking water.
Advertisements by Alcoa Aluminum recommending that we add sodium fluoride
to our drinking water supply, can be found in old periodicals dated BEFORE
fluoridation was officially approved by the authorities. Fluoride promoter
Oscar Ewing, head of the Federal Security Agency (FSA) senior to the U.S.
Public Health Service in 1951, left the employ of Alcoa Aluminum not long
before he headed up the U.S. fluoridation campaign in the early 1950's.
(Follow the money)
Toxic sodium fluoride and its more toxic fluorinated cousins like potassium
fluoride have historically been quite expensive to properly and safely
dispose of, until around 1950 when some industries with an overabundance
of this toxic waste actually convinced the public on the terrifically insane
but highly profitable idea of selling it to the public at a 20,000% markup,
injecting it into our fresh water supply, and then DRINKING it.
Yes, a 20,000% markup: Fluoride--intended originally for human consumption
only by children under 14 years of age--is injected into our drinking water
supply at approx. 1 part-per-million (ppm), but since we only drink approximately
1/2 of one percent of the total water supply, the rest literally goes down
the drains as a free hazardous-waste disposal site for the chemical industry,
where we PAY them for the "privilege" of flushing their expensive
hazardous wastes down our sewers. How many salesmen dream of such a deal?
(Follow the money.)
Independent scientific evidence over the past 50 years reveals that fluoride
allegedly shortens our life span, promotes cancer and various mental disturbances,
accelerates osteoporosis and broken hips in old folks, and makes us stupid,
docile, and subservient, all in one package. One broad study found a direct
relationship between areas that were fluoridated, and reports of hip fractures
among the elderly.
Fluorine has a natural affinity for calcium. (Sodium fluoride rat poison
rapidly alters the calcium metabolism of the body, rapidly destroys enzyme
activity, and severely interferes with functions of the nerve channels.)
The most common form of fluorine in nature is Calcium Fluoride, commonly
called Fluor-spar. Fluor-spar is relatively stable, and thus is less toxic
than the man-made toxic-waste derivations of fluorine. However, even calcium
fluoride causes adverse reactions in humans, depending upon how much fluorine
is released.
Take India, for example. Due to the fact that millions of people in India
are afflicted with fluorosis (excessive fluoride disease) such as malformed
spine, neck and pelvis, weakened tooth structure and mottled or discolored
teeth, there have been much more thorough scientific studies performed
in India on fluoridated water, than in the West.
In an extensive government-sponsored study Dr. A.K. Susheela of the India
Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, found that (contrary to American
Dental Association literature) fluoride severely disrupts the formation
of the bone matrix, thereby inhibiting the proper hardening of bones.
Dr. Susheela's work was so stunning and so conclusive that in 1986 it prompted
the Indian government to authorize the construction of defluoridation plants
for their drinking water. The top-priority for India's defluoridation campaign
is pregnant women and young breast-fed children. The studies conclusively
showed that high levels of fluoride in drinking water are clearly associated
with birth defects, stillbirths, and early infant mortality.
Dr. Susheela developed a blood test which enables early detection of fluoride
toxicity before bone and teeth disorders became irreversible.
India's responsible research on fluoride toxicity is a properly ethical,
up-to-date scientific model, which contrasts strongly with irresponsible
and authoritarian fluoridation policy in the West which is based on unethical,
low scientific standards and high political opinion. Our major policy decisions
demonstrably hinge upon nothing more than emotionally-charged debate where
an "expert" dentist endorses an "expert" doctor who
refers to "thousands of fluoride studies" in a closed loop like
a snake swallowing its own tail, meanwhile neither of them has done their
real homework on the subject or they would find that the "thousands
of studies" refuting harm FACTUALLY DO NOT EXIST.
$20,000 REWARD FOR ANY PROOF THAT FLUORIDE WORKS. Dr. Robert Mick, DDS,
was one of the original scientists who promoted fluoridation, until he
did his own animal studies on sodium fluoride in the late 1940's and then
abruptly changed his mind after authorities ordered him to cover up his
test results. He refused, and proceeded to do some more research on those
very authorities.
Dr. Mick's studies prompted him to confidently present this challenge:
"$20,000 to the first individual who can provide one copy of any controlled
experiment with any of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) recommended
fluorides in water, at the USPHS recommended parts-per-million, which shows
that poisonous fluorides are safe and will cause no future body harm."
Dr. Mick's $20,000 offer has been valid since the 1950's, but per a 1991
radio interview, Dr. Mick said that nobody had yet presented even one claim
to him in hopes of collecting the reward. His address is 916 Stone Road,
Laurel Springs, New Jersey. He put his money where his mouth is, with no
takers.
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND FLUORIDE:
There are reports of aluminum in the brain possibly being a causative factor
in Alzheimer's Disease. Evidence points towards fluoride's strong affinity
for aluminum and also its ability to "trick" the blood-brain
barrier by looking like the hydrogen ion, and thus allowing an easy chemical
access to brain tissue.
Evidently Alzheimer's Disease came along after people started using aluminum
cookware. Isabel Jansen, R.N., wrote of a simple experiment regarding the
use of aluminum pots, where you can easily prove for yourself that both
the aluminum and the fluoride content in water both increase dramatically,
when combined:
"In January 1987, experiments performed at the Medical Research Endocrinology
Dept., Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and the Physics Dept of the Univ.
of Ruhana, Sri Lanka, showed that fluoridated water at 1 ppm, when used
in cooking in aluminum cookware, concentrated the aluminum up to 600 ppm,
whereas water without fluoride did not. (Science News, 131:73) (Note: Why
wasn't this simple test ever financed and done in the U.S.?)
"The researchers suggested that because of the known fact that aluminum
is neuro-toxic and is in abnormally high concentrations in the brain of
Alzheimer's and other neurological disease victims, including AIDS, that
these findings raise questions about adding fluoride to the water supply
of communities to reduce tooth decay.
"Because of these findings, a test was made of Antigo, Wisconsin water
which had been fluoridated for 33 years. The water was examined by a certified
Wisconsin laboratory, and showed that when it was used in cooking in aluminum
cookware, it concentrated the aluminum by 833 times and increased the fluoride
content by 100%.
"The maximum allowed aluminum content of water is set by the World
Health Organization at 200 micrograms per liter. This makes Antigo water,
when cooked in aluminum, 75 times over the maximum. No test was made of
distilled water, as the Antigo Water Dept. does not dispense distilled
water. Antigo water pipes are also encrusted with (calcified) fluoride
from 26 to 3,100 ppm. This latter was analyzed and diagnosed by the Wisconsin
Dept of Hygiene as being aluminum fluoride. Regardless of which findings
are true, to chance exchanging a hole in a tooth---which can be repaired
at a nominal fee---for dementia (organic brain disorder) in later years,
for which there is no remedy at any price, hardly seems to be a good bargain.
"Therefore, it would seem imperative that other communities test their
water in the same manner to see if it produces the same results, as tests
may vary depending on the mineral variations of the water and the type
of aluminum cookware. This simple test can be done by anyone, with the
help of a laboratory to do the analysis." ISABEL JANSEN, R.N. (Journal
of the National Academy of Research Biochemists - Jan/Feb '90)
Legitimate scientists who have repeatedly attempted to blow the whistle
on the mega-bucks fluoride PR scam have consistently been given a very
unscientific Black-PR treatment, and thus their valid facts disputing the
current vested interests never arrived in the press. (Follow the money.)
THE ORIGINAL FLUORIDATION CAMPAIGN
In 1952 a slick PR campaign was initiated, headed by Oscar Ewing who was
once an Alcoa Aluminum attorney and spurred on by a dentist named Bull.
This campaign ramrodded the concept of water fluoridation through our national
Public Health departments and various national and local dental organizations.
The campaign was better described as a highly-emotional "beer-salesman's
convention" instead of the objective scientific experiment which it
should properly have been. Fluoridation has continued in that same emotional,
unscientific vein right up to present time.
To illustrate the emotional vs. the scientific nature of this issue, take
an honest, objective look at the response given by people when the subject
of fluoridation comes up. By all means, ask your dentist. Ask yourself
honestly, "Is this response UNBIASED AND OPENLY-INTERESTED SCIENTIFIC
OBJECTIVITY, or is it PREJUDICED EMOTIONAL BLUSTER?"
There is a tremendous amount of emotional subjective opinion attached to
fluoridation. Ask an MD about the possible toxic effects of fluoride, and
instead of correctly referring you to a toxicologist, he'll respond that
he trusts his dental colleagues who say that fluoride is not toxic. Ask
a dentist, and he'll respond that he trusts whatever he was told in dental
school. Both have convincing answers which whitewash this toxic hazardous
waste and make it sound as if it is a vitamin or a nutrient, but keep in
mind that both of those opinions are only from vested-interest individuals
who receive a VERY GOOD standard of living that is strictly dependent upon
the illness of others.
They might have a good heart and they probably do, but even they cannot
deny that their professional training from day one, came from a vested
interest that endorses giving them attractive kick-back benefits and vacations
etc. for their referrals to expensive drug prescriptions and medical procedures.
Seen from the standpoint of the pharmaceutical industry, it's quite handy
and profitable to have virtually ALL doctors and dentists voluntarily standing
up for them and being their well-paid professional "agents" in
the community at large. They don't even have to PAY their own agents, but
the "victims" do! The only visibility the vested-interests have
is their incessant multi-million-dollar TV drug commercials which they
hammer the public with, day and night.
Many truly independent (unattached to any vested-interest) scientists who've
spent a large portion of their lives studying and working with this subject
have received a surprising amount of uncalled-for and unfair character
assassination from strong vested-interest groups who profit from the public's
ignorance, as well as from their illnesses. As they say, "It's only
business."
DIABETICS SHOULD NOT DRINK FLUORIDATED WATER:
There are reportedly more than 11 million Americans with diabetes. Since
many diabetics drink more liquids than other people, then according to
the Physicians Desk Reference these 11 million Americans probably shouldn't
drink fluoridated water, because in doing so, they'll receive an excessive
dose of fluoride, which is also accumulative in the body.
Kidney disease, by definition, lowers the efficiency of the kidneys, which
is your main route of fluoride elimination. People with kidney disease
also shouldn't drink fluoridated water. Cases are on record (Annapolis,
Maryland, 1979) where kidney patients on dialysis machines died, due to
a fluoride overdose in the city water supply. There is no data as to what
effects "standard" fluoridated water causes to kidney patients
on dialysis, but this should be highly questioned.
WHEN DID THIS FLUORIDATION MADNESS BEGIN?
The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water was found in Germany's
Nazi prison camps, which were maintained partly by I.G. Farben. The Gestapo
had little concern about fluoride's supposed effect on children's teeth;
their alleged reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was
to sterilize humans and force them into calm submission. (Ref. book: "The
Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin.)
I.G. FARBEN DEVELOPED FLUORINATED SARIN AND SOMAN NERVE GAS: The name "SARIN"
is an acronym of the names of the four key I.G. Farben employees involved
in its initial chemical formulation and production: Schrader, Ambros, Rudriger,
and Van Der Linde. Otto Ambros was the production chief of I.G. Farben's
poison gas facilities in Germany. (See Ambros' photo on p. 286 of "World
Without Cancer" by G. Edward Griffin.)
Sarin was developed to replace deadly Malathion and Zyklon B nerve gases,
specifically with the intent to exterminate millions of people. Fluoride-bearing
Sarin was reportedly so strong, "it made Zyklon B look like underarm
deodorant." (The Dickinson Statement, "Health Consciousness",
October 1988)
PROFESSIONAL TESTIMONY:
The following letter was received by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional
Research, Milwaukee Wisconsin, on 2 October 1954, from Mr. Charles Perkins,
a chemist:
"I have your letter of September 29 asking for further documentation
regarding a statement made in my book, The Truth About Water Fluoridation,
to the effect that the idea of water fluoridation was brought to England
from Russia by the Russian Communist Kreminoff.
"In the 1930's, Hitler and the German Nazi's envisioned a world to
be dominated and controlled by a Nazi philosophy of pan-Germanism. The
German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass-control
which was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan
was to control the population in any given area through mass medication
of drinking water supplies. By this method they could control the population
in whole areas, reduce population by water medication that would produce
sterility in women, and so on. In this scheme of mass-control, 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, thus making him submissive
to the will of those who wish to govern him. [A convenient invisible lobotomy]
"The real reason behind water fluoridation is not to benefit children's
teeth. If this were the real reason there are many ways in which it could
be done that 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.
"When the Nazis under Hitler decided to go into Poland, both 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 communize the world. ...
"I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official
of the great Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi
movement at the time. I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity
of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years' research into the chemistry,
biochemistry, physiology 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." CHARLES E. PERKINS,
Chemist, 2 October 1954.
Quoting Einstein's nephew, Dr. E.H. Bronner (a chemist who had also been
a prisoner of war during WWII) in a letter printed in The Catholic Mirror,
Springfield, MA, January 1952:
"It appears that the citizens of Massachusetts are among the 'next'
on the agenda of the water poisoners.
"There is a sinister network of subversive agents, Godless 'intellectual'
parasites, working in our country today whose ramifications grow more extensive,
more successful and more alarming each new year and whose true objective
is to demoralize, paralyze and destroy our great Republic--from within
if they can, according to their plan--for their own possession.
"The tragic success they have already attained in their long siege
to destroy the moral fiber of American life is now one of their most potent
footholds towards their own ultimate victory over us.
"Fluoridation of our community water systems can well become their
most subtle weapon for our sure physical and mental deterioration. ...
"As a research chemist of established standing, I built within the
past 22 years, 3 American chemical plants and licensed 6 of my 53 patents.
Based on my years of practical experience in the health-food and chemical
field, let me warn: fluoridation of drinking water is criminal insanity,
sure national suicide. Don't do it.
"Even in small quantities, sodium fluoride is a deadly poison to which
no effective antidote has been found. Every exterminator knows that it
is the most efficient rat-killer. ... Sodium fluoride is entirely different
from organic calcium-fluoro-phosphate needed by our bodies and provided
by nature, in God's great providence and love, to build and strengthen
our bones and our teeth. This organic calcium-fluoro-phosphate, derived
from proper foods, is an edible organic salt, insoluble in water and assimilable
by the human body, whereas the non-organic sodium fluoride used in fluoridating
water is instant poison to the body and fully water soluble. The body refuses
to assimilate it.
"Careful, bonafide laboratory experimentation by conscientious, patriotic
research chemists, and actual medical experience, have both revealed that
instead of preserving or promoting 'dental health,' fluoridated drinking
water destroys teeth, before adulthood and after, by the destructive mottling
and other pathological conditions it actually causes in them, and also
creates many other very grave pathological conditions in the internal organisms
of bodies consuming it. How can it be called a "health" plan?
What's behind it?
"That any so-called "doctors" would persuade a civilized
nation to add voluntarily a deadly poison to its drinking water systems
is unbelievable. It is the height of criminal insanity.
"No wonder Hitler and Stalin fully believed and agreed from 1939 to
1941 that, quoting from both Lenin's Last Will and Hitler's Mein Kampf:
"America we shall demoralize, divide, and destroy from within."
...
"Are our Civil Defense organizations and agencies awake to the perils
of water poisoning by fluoridation? Its use has been recorded in other
countries. Sodium fluoride water solutions are the cheapest and most effective
rat killers known to chemists: colorless, odorless, tasteless; no antidote,
no remedy, no hope: Instant and complete extermination of rats. ...
"Fluoridation of water systems can be slow national suicide, or quick
national liquidation. It is criminal insanity--treason!" Dr. E.H.
Bronner, Mfg. Research Chemist, Los Angeles.
EARLIEST AVAILABLE RUSSIAN FLUORIDE EVIDENCE:
"I, Oliver Kenneth Goff, was a member of the Communist Party and the
Young Communist League, from May 2, 1936, to October 9, 1939. During this
period of time, I operated under the alias of John Keats with number 18-B-2.
My testimony before the Government is in Volume 9 of the Un-American Activities
Report for 1939.
"While a member of the Communist Party, I attended Communist training
schools in New York and Wisconsin ... and we were trained in the revolutionary
overthrow of the U.S. Government.
"... We discussed quite thoroughly the fluoridation of water supplies
and how we were using it in Russia as a tranquilizer in the prison camps.
The leaders of our school felt that if it could be induced into the American
water supply, it would bring about a spirit of lethargy in the nation,
where it could keep the general public docile during a steady encroachment
of Communism. We also discussed the fact that keeping a store of deadly
fluoride near the water reservoir would be advantageous during the time
of the revolution, as it would give us opportunity to dump this poison
into the water supply and either kill off the populace or threaten them
with liquidation, so that they would surrender to obtain fresh water.
"We discussed in these schools, the complete art of revolution: the
seizure of the main utilities, such as light, power, gas, and water, but
it was felt by the leadership that if a program of fluoridating of the
water could be carried out in the nation, it would go a long way toward
the advancement of the revolution. "The above statements are true."
Oliver Kenneth Goff.
(Signed & notarized 6/22/57.)
20 years after Mr. Goff was indoctrinated on the Communist purposes of
fluoridating U.S. water supplies, in New York there appeared an article
in the 13 April 1956 issue of THE COMMUNIST DAILY WORKER entitled "Facts
Spur Campaign for Fluoridation Here":
"Politicians of the [New York] City Council and Board of Estimate
are timid men who are catering to misguided sentiment, outmoded tradition,
and backward fears of the unscientific. A widespread educational campaign
among both the politicians and people on the value of the Board of Health's
program for fluoridation is certainly indicated."
Note that the DAILY WORKER was commonly used to give widespread advice
to all Communists in America. Therefore the above article was official
Party line instructions on how to stigmatize people who opposed fluoridation
as being "misguided", "outmoded", "backward",
and "unscientific." Incidentally, a review of current ADA literature
on how to handle opponents to fluoridation parrots that same Party line
even today, almost word-for-word. Pure coincidence of course. (Follow the
money.)
Just for practice, read the above news quote aloud to a friend, and you'll
figure out for yourself if the Communists were only humanely concerned
about the dental health of our American children, in 1956.
AMERICA SENT RAT POISON TO STALIN'S SIBERIAN PRISONERS, VIA LEND-LEASE:
Russia's use of sodium fluoride during World War II was entered into the
Congressional Record in the early 1950's. USAF Major George R. Jordan testified
before Un-American Activity committees of Congress that he had been stationed
in Great Falls, Montana during the war as a U.S.-Soviet liaison officer.
Major Jordan stated that one of his tasks had been to procure "vast
quantities" of sodium fluoride for shipment to Siberia via numerous
Lend-Lease airplanes which we were sending to Russia from Montana, via
Canada and Alaska. (7,926 airplanes were sent to Russia via this route.)
Major Jordan testified that the Russians openly admitted to "... using
the fluoride in the water supplies in their concentration camps, to make
the prisoners stupid, docile, and subservient."
Of related interest, regarding "follow the money": In his book,
"From Major Jordan's Diaries" (Doubleday & Co, 1952), Major
Jordan gives dates and shipment numbers of our generous Lend-Lease program's
many illicit shipments of secret U.S. documents and ATOMIC MATERIALS, including
a whopping 1,200 POUNDS of CONCENTRATED URANIUM ORE--plus 2 pounds of refined
uranium and some heavy water--in 1943, to Stalin via the Lend-Lease airplanes
and ships which we freely gave to Russia. This was thanks to Mr. Harry
Hopkins, who headed the Lend-Lease Program and who had an office in Roosevelt's
White House. It was a surprise to America when the Russians detonated their
first atomic bomb test in September 1949, but few Americans knew that generous
and treasonous donations of nuclear blueprints (some plainly labeled "Manhattan
Project") and raw materials to the Soviets actually began in 1943.
More data on this treason can be found in the recent book "Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb" by Richard Rhodes, as well as on
this Internet website containing a transcript of Major Jordan's book:
http://www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/mjd1.html
How expensive is uranium today? July 23, 1994: The Austin Texas American
Statesman ran an article describing how Istanbul, Turkey police had recently
seized 22 pounds of uranium, believed to have been smuggled from a former
Soviet republic. The estimated value of those 22 pounds of uranium was
$825 million. Given that, then what was the value of the 1,200 pounds of
concentrated uranium ore (plus frills) that our Lend-Lease program freely
gave to Stalin in 1943?
History tells us that this supremely treasonous action headed by Harry
Hopkins was a major long-term cause of the tremendously expensive (but
highly profitable for the self-serving defense industry) cold war which
changed our national debt graph into an exponential curve.
Quoting a State Department report dated June 1944, prepared by our USSR
Ambassador Averell Harriman, "Stalin paid tribute to the assistance
rendered by the United States to Soviet industry before and during the
war. He said that about two-thirds of all large industrial enterprise in
the Soviet Union had been built with United States help or technical assistance."
(Following the money, Averill Harriman was also the head of Brown Brothers
Harriman Bank, the largest privately-held bank in the world. The record
shows that both Harriman and his Managing Director Prescott Bush--George's
dad--in the early 1930's had been instrumental in financing Adolph Hitler,
and also had strong financial connections with I.G. Farben. Details can
be found in GEORGE BUSH: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY, by Anton Chaitkin
and Webster Tarpley.)
FLUORIDE POLITICS
1952: The Delaney Committee 82nd Congress Hearings on Fluoride revealed
that there was no actual scientific basis for the fluoridation of water
supplies in the prevention of tooth decay. The recommendation of the Committee
was that more research be done, before proceeding with this national mass
medication. Their recommendation was totally ignored.
1953: In a joint speech, U.S. Surgeon-General Scheele and Health, Education
& Welfare Undersecretary Nelson (follow the money) Rockefeller announced
hopeful plans to put more medicine than just fluoride into the U.S. water
supplies:
"Dr. Scheele, in discussing mass-application methods for preventing
non-infectious diseases, said a case in point was fluoridation of water
supplies to reduce tooth decay. Nearly 800 cities throughout the country
have adopted the technique during the past 10 years, he said. Such a community-wide
attack on "far more serious diseases than dental decay" probably
will be forthcoming after laboratory tests have paved the way, he predicted."
(Paterson Evening News, 11/6/53)
1950's comment by Edward L. Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud and PR man
for the fluoridation project under Oscar Ewing: "... the most direct
way to reach the mind of the HERD is through the leaders. ... Public Health
Officers cannot afford the professional modesty professed by physicians.
A redefinition of ethics is necessary.... and the subject matter of the
propaganda need not necessarily be true." (Book: Crystallizing Public
Opinion, by E. L. Bernays.)
VALID SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS NEVER BECOME OUTDATED
The first available ADA Journal entry on fluoride was in 1936. Here are
a few quotes from that issue (#23, pages 569-570, 1936):
(Fluorine is not an essential nutrient):
"Studies by Sharpless and McCollum (Sharpless, G.R. and McCollum,
E.V.: Journal of Nutrition, 6:163 March 1933) furnish information regarding
the biological role of fluorine. They found that young rats (aged from
16 to 18 days) contain little, if any, fluorine, whereas, adult rats have
considerable fluorine in the bones and teeth, the amount varying with the
diet fed, and increasing with age."
"By feeding rats an experimental diet in which care was taken to keep
the fluorine content at a minimum, the following observations were made:
Reproduction was unaffected; the fluorine content of the bones could be
"reduced to between 6 and 25 ppm, and could be eliminated from the
teeth, without showing any gross deleterious effect" and no change
was produced in the calcium to phosphorus ratio in the bones. This evidence
supports the idea that fluorine plays no important useful biologic role."
"On the contrary, there is an increasing volume of evidence of the
injurious effects of fluorine, especially the chronic intoxication resulting
from the ingestion of minute amounts of fluorine over long periods of time.
The studies conducted by Dr. Smith and her co-workers at the Univ. of Arizona
have shown that 1 ppm, and possibly .8 PPM of fluorine will produce definite
signs of enamel dystrophy in children born and reared in an endemic [peculiar
to a people or nation] area."
"Such data enable us to calculate the approximate dosage of fluorine
per unit of body weight per day, capable of producing a definite degree
of tooth injury in the majority of children. During the first six years
of life, the body weight ranges from approximately 7 pounds at birth to
about 40 pounds at the age of 6. The average weight during this period
is about 25 pounds, or 12 kg. If it is assumed that the average daily water
intake is 1 quart, or 1 liter, a fluorine content of .8 PPM would mean
a lifetime fluorine intake of .8 milligrams per day, which for 12 kg. of
body weight would be .07 mg. per day, per kilogram of body weight."
[Note: Actual intake in the 1990's is twice that amount.]
"It is interesting to compare this value for the injurious fluorine
dosage, with the values that have been determined experimentally for lead
and arsenic in the white rat. Lead acetate added to the food will check
the growth and appetite of the white rat, when a dosage of from .7 micrograms
to 150 micrograms per day per kilogram of body weight is administered.
This wide dosage range is due to variation in susceptibility of the rats
and to variation in the severity of the symptoms. Addition of arsenic trioxide
to the food causes loss of body weight in the white rat when the dosage
is from 1.5 to 5 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day. Such a
comparison of toxicity data suggests that fluorine, lead and arsenic belong
to the same group, as far as ability to cause some symptom of toxicity
in minute dosage is concerned. Thus far, the ability of fluorine to induce
chronic intoxication when administered in minute amounts over long periods
of time has been considered."
"Let us now pass on to the general actions of fluorine and its action
on bones and teeth. Fluorine, a general protoplasmic poison, exerts a strong
inhibitory action on many enzymes. The more complex inorganic compounds
containing fluorine are frequently toxic because of a direct action of
the compound itself, or because of a conversion of the complex compound,
as by hydrolysis [changing by taking up the elements of water], into simpler
compounds, such as the simpler fluorides."
"Similarly, many organic compounds containing fluorine are toxic because
of a liberation of fluorine in the presence of protoplasm [the substance--fluids,
cells, etc.--that is the physical basis of life]. Moreover, even in the
absence of such disintegration of the organic molecule with liberation
of fluorine, the presence of fluorine in the molecule often enhances the
toxicity of an organic compound. It has been shown by Lehmann (Lehmann,
F.: Arch f. Exper. Path. u. Pharmakol., 130:250, 1928) that the introduction
of fluorine into the side chain of aromatic compounds, such as toluene
and m-toluidine, increased the toxicity to frogs. The toxic effect of fluorine
compounds on yeast has been studied by Effront (Effront, J.: 1892, Jrnl
Chem. Society, A. 1532, 1891; A. 905, 1892; A. II, 425, 1894.) and by Arthus
and Gavelle. (Arthus and Gavelle: Compt. Rend. Society de Biol., 55:1481,
1903)"
--That wasn't the end of the ADA Journal reference, but you get the idea.
In spite of such valid early studies reported in the ADA Journal, the ADA
and USPHS scientific opinion was later regulated more by lobbyists than
by scientists, on the fluoride issue. Their literature of today emphatically
indicates that as long as your teeth are free of cavities, the longevity
of the rest of your body is not open for discussion. The carefully-biased
literature repeatedly and exclusively hammers the dental benefit point,
meanwhile carefully avoiding references to any bodily toxic load, or what
the huge quantity of fluorides are doing to the environment.
ENVIRONMENTAL RULE OF THUMB: 130 LETHAL DOSES OF FLUORIDE PER PERSON, ANNUALLY
Think this through:
--Fluoride slowly accumulates in our bodies as well as in the environment.
It doesn't just blow away in the wind, nor get easily expelled in the urine.
It first goes to the bone, then to the teeth, then to the hard tissue such
as cartilage, tendons, and blood vessel walls, and finally what's left
over gets excreted via the kidneys. Approximately 50% of the fluorine ingested,
remains and accumulates in the body.
--Fluoride cannot be removed from drinking water with a charcoal filter;
only a reverse-osmosis filter or steam distilling process will remove fluoride.
Boiling water for soup, coffee, tea or other drink, only concentrates fluoride.
--Approximately 1,200 mg (1.2 grams) of sodium fluoride ("just a pinch")
will kill an adult human being. That was the low estimate that Dominic
Smith ingested when he died from an overdose of fluoridated water at Hooper
Bay, Alaska on 23 May 1992. (Approximately 200 mg will kill a small child.)
--Water utility companies advertise that they supply us with approximately
115 gallons of fresh water per person, per day. That's approximately 400
liters per person, daily.
--Humans only drink approximately one-fourth of one percent of the fresh
water supplied by the water utility companies. Therefore, for every 400
liters per person that gets supplied, just 1 liter get swallowed in food
or drink (including coffee, juice, soda pop, soups or any other beverage
made with fluoridated water), while the other 399 liters of water goes
for baths, watering lawns, washing cars, flushing toilets, putting out
fires, etc.
--In the fluoridation process at the water treatment plant, fluoride is
added to our water supply at the rate of one part per million, or 1 milligram
per liter. One milligram is the daily intended "target dose"
of this medicine, for each child under 14 years of age whose teeth haven't
yet fully formed. (Adults and pets supposedly don't count in this equation,
even though they also receive their own fluoride in extremely unreliable
and varying dosages.) Therefore, for every 400 liters of water supplied
to us, a full 400 milligrams of fluoride is added to the water supply.
However, since only 1 milligram of that amount (one liter of water) is
swallowed, 399 milligrams of excess fluoride literally gets flushed down
into the sewer or sprayed out onto the ground as a fully legal toxic waste
dumping ground. (And we pay $400.00 for just $1.00 worth of medicine.)
Since we even bought the toxic waste, that's quite profitable for whomever
manufactured and sold it, but not very healthy for Mother Earth.
--BOTTOM-LINE LETHAL QUANTITY: Exactly how many lethal doses are disseminated
in this manner? Simple math on the above numbers reveals that 140 grams
of fluoride per person is dumped into the environment each year. 140 grams
of fluoride gives us our rule of thumb of 130 LETHAL DOSES OF FLUORIDE
PER PERSON, PER YEAR, DUMPED INTO THE ENVIRONMENT wherever "standard"
water fluoridation is used.
--Multiply 130 by 150 million people (the total number of U.S. population
currently drinking fluoridated water) and that makes 20 billion lethal
doses of fluoride per year, dumped into our environment. That's an additive
10 million tons of rat-poison spread across America yearly, in the name
of dental health.
What does this actually do to the environment? Some small animals, such
as chinchillas, have a low tolerance for fluoridated water. Note this 1964
letter from Mr. R.J. Marshall, in British Columbia:
"AN OPEN LETTER TO RESIDENTS OF THE OKANAGAN: Dear fellow citizens;
I have been a chinchilla rancher in Kelowna since 1952. My herd was healthy
and prolific until the introduction of sodium fluoride into Kelowna domestic
water. In the first year I noticed no ill effects. After the first year
the animals began to die in increasing numbers, and the offspring of such
parents proved sterile. As time went on more and more of the animals died
soon after birth. By the year 1964 not only was the birth rate of my herd
extremely low but 72 percent of those born failed to survive. My herd was
then completely bankrupt."
"Another breeder moved into the Kelowna fluoridated area from unfluoridated
East Kelowna and his losses were parallel to mine. When by chance we compared
notes we discovered that losses to both had commenced after our herds had
consumed fluoridated water. My friend never had any such trouble before.
Both of us had been successful breeders, and we are both officers of the
Chinchilla Breeders Association. When we realized the cause of our troubles
we began feeding our chinchillas water that is not polluted with sodium
fluoride. Now with pure water we are recovering from our difficulties;
but I had to acquire new stock because most of my surviving animals were
permanently sterile."
"We learned, by comparing notes with experienced people all over the
continent, that our losses are by no means the first in fluoridation history.
It is common knowledge among U.S. chinchilla breeders that chinchillas
can not tolerate fluoridated water. This is also true of hamsters, guinea
pigs, mice, rats, and rabbits. They become sterile and die if they are
fed sodium fluoride indefinitely, at "recommended" concentrations
and even lower. ..."
What evidence is there of environmental pollution causing problems more
close to home? Note USA Today's 28 May, 1993 article entitled DECREASING
SPERM COUNTS BLAMED ON ENVIRONMENT: "Dramatic drops in sperm counts
in the past few decades may be due to rising levels of environmental estrogen,
as well as substances that act like estrogen, a new report says. The amount
of sperm produced by the average man has dropped by half in the last 50
years, say researchers in the medical journal LANCET. ..."
It takes no huge stretch of the imagination to offer fluorides as a possible
factor in the above equation, considering the quantity of fluorides currently
being distributed as well as their known similar effect on living organisms.
There are only several hundred registered toxicologists in the entire country.
The subject of fluoride is actually the home territory of toxicologists
rather than dentists or doctors, but note that the fluoride promoters never
use toxicologists as a reference because toxicologists (who are bright
enough to know that God isn't stupid enough to have created man with an
inherent deficiency of rat poison, and who have seen what rat poison actually
does to rats, and who are usually quite independent of vested interests)
are almost uniformly against fluoridation. Just locate some toxicologists,
and ASK them.
INTERESTING FLUORIDE QUOTES
"Fluorides are violent poisons to all living tissue because of their
precipitation of calcium. They cause fall of blood pressure, respiratory
failure, and general paralysis. Continuous ingestion of non-fatal doses
causes permanent inhibition of growth." (U.S. Dispensatory, 24th Edition,
pp. 1456-57.)
"Although it is true that the enamel of adult teeth is unaffected
by fluorine, the dentine, which receives nutrients from the blood stream
continually and whose composition is subject to change, will suffer. ...
An inhibitory effect on the action of enzymes, characteristic of antiseptics
in general, is a property of all inorganic fluorides. Evidence has been
established that there is a specific influence of fluorides on certain
enzymatic changes associated with carbohydrates and fats. The results of
a study conducted by Kastle and Loevenhart on the effect of antiseptics
on the reactions of pancreatic and liver extracts revealed a harmful effect
on most substances studied. ... Solutions of sodium fluoride with a fluorine
content as low as 1 part in 15 million may inhibit the action of the lipase
(pancreatic juice) as much as 50 percent." (THE MENACE OF FLUORINE
TO HEALTH, Univ. of New Mexico, 1 Aug 1938, pages 19-21.)
"Fluorine is known to be an enzymatic inhibitor which interferes with
metabolism of breakdown of glucose, between the 6 carbon and 3 carbon
compounds. The metabolim of glucose or its breakdown is our primary source
of energy for maintaining life and doing useful work." (Dr. Paul H.
Phillips, Univ of Wisconsin, Dept of Bichemistry)
From proven experiments supported by the Medical Facility of the Univ.
of Praetoria, S. Africa: "Long-continued ingestion of minute quantities
of fluorine causes disease of the thyroid gland." (Dr. Doug
D. Styne, Dept of Pharmacology)
"We ought to go slowly. Everybody knows that fluorine and fluorides
are very poisonous substances and we use them in enzyme chemistry to poison
enzymes, those vital agents in the body. That is the reason things are
poisoned; because enzymes are poisoned, and that is why animals and plants
die." Mr. James B. Sumner, Director of Enzyme Chemistry, Department
of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Cornell University, and a Nobel Prize winner
for his work in the field of enzyme chemistry.
"It is known as a scientific fact that fluoride is a deadly poison
to enzymes, upon which all life depends." Dr. J.J. Rae, 20-year associate
professor of chemistry, and Ph.D. in biochemistry and organics, Univ. of
Toronto.
"The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action
of many enzyme systems." Hugo Theorell, M.D., Nobel Prize winner
for his research in the field of enzyme chemistry.
"Contrary to what is widely assumed, the toxicity of fluoride is not
always related to concentration. Under certain conditions fluoride toxicity
actually increases as the concentration decreases. This is what is known
as a paradoxical effect." Albert Schatz, Ph.D., M.C.R.S., Professor
at the Univ. of Chile and co-discoverer of streptomycin.
"The debate should not be the merits of fluoridation of the water
supply, which is a public health problem, but rather the ethical aspects
of universal fluoridation which creates an untenable situation for those
individuals who are intolerant to fluorides. Do we have the moral right
to create a situation from which the intolerant individual has no escape?
The answer thus becomes very simple. Each individual should be granted
the option to choose fluoride prophylaxis depending upon his need and tolerance.
You have my permission to state my position and quote me as against universal
fluoridation of the water supply." Ben F. Feingold, M.D., Chief Emeritus,
Department of Allergy, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco
Calif.
(Dr. Feingold headed an organization which cares for hyperactive children,
which has found, incidentally, that fluoride causes a severe adverse reaction
upon the nervous system of hyperactive children. Coincidentally, so-called
"Attention-Deficit-Disorder" or "A.D.D." is a common
misdiagnosis for hyperactive or overly-enthusiastic children, and for which
RITALIN is commonly prescribed. Thus, when a hyperactive child has an adverse
reaction to FLUORIDE, he's commonly put on destructive RITALIN or fluoridated
PROZAC as a "cure.")
"It is of doubtful legality; it offends deep convictions concerning
doctoring without consent; it is against the medical tradition of care
for the individual; against the function of a public water supply; against
sane economics; against the considered opinion of eminent nutritionists,
biochemists, physiologists, pharmacologists, allergists, toxicologists;
above all, it is against natural caution and common sense." Dr. C.
G. Dobbs, Prof. of Microbiology, Univ. of North Wales, Associate Royal
College of Science, formerly at King's College, Univ. of London.
THE TEXAS TOWN WITHOUT CAVITIES
An often-quoted study favoring fluoridation was done in the 1930's in Hereford,
Texas, once billed as "The Town Without Cavities", but there
are flaws:
1. Hereford has a high level of naturally-occurring calcium fluoride in
the water, not sodium fluoride.
2. According to a letter from Dr. George Heard, the dentist in Hereford,
TX who initially promoted Hereford's lack of dental cavities to the dental
profession, even the naturally-occurring calcium fluoride in the water
supply in Hereford was damaging to people's teeth. After many years of
dental practice and observation of dental patients in Hereford, he concluded
that fluoride was not beneficial. Here is a 1954 letter from Dr. Heard:
"Hereford, Texas has been called the TOWN WITHOUT A TOOTH ACHE. This
is not true. But the phrase has been used effectively by the people interested
in marketing SODIUM FLUORIDE all over the country. ...I believe that fluorine
does in a mild way, retard cavities, but I also believe that the damage
it does is far greater than any good it may appear to accomplish. It even
makes the teeth so brittle and crumbly they can be treated only with difficulty,
if at all. The dental investigators who came to our county some fifteen
years ago did, in my opinion, make a serious mistake when they gave fluorine
the credit for our good teeth, and overlooked the quality of food grown
in our rich, well mineralized soil. Every person I found who had no dental
caries, consumed much milk. Why use a poison, when correct food will maintain
our bodies free from diseases and tooth decay? It is hellish and non-American
to put poison in city water supplies and force citizens to drink it."
George W. Heard, DDS, 15 March 1954.
PROBLEM: HOW TO GET RID OF A TOXIC HAZARDOUS WASTE?
In 1938, Dr. Gerald Cox, a research fellow of the Mellon Institute, picked
up the fluoride ball and began publicly promoting the addition of sodium
fluoride to public water systems, claiming that it would reduce tooth decay.
The Mellons owned Alcoa, the Aluminum Company of America, who stockpiled
quantities of sodium fluoride as a hazardous waste. Two major obstacles
to Mr. Cox's promotional campaign were the AMA and the ADA, whose initial
position was that fluoride was strictly a poison and that it shouldn't
be introduced into the public water supply as a mass-medication. (Reference:
AMA Journal, 9/18/43 and ADA Journal, 10/1/44)
Despite the initial warnings from the AMA and ADA, Dr. Cox enlisted the
help of a Wisconsin dentist, Dr. J.J. Fritsch, to promote fluoridation
of drinking water, and in early 1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan was the first
to fall for their story and fluoridate its water supply. In his crusade
Dr. Fritsch enlisted the support of P.R. man, Dr. Frank Bull, the Wisconsin
State Dental Health Officer, who organized political campaigns in order
to persuade local officials to approve fluoridation. They applied constant
lobbying pressure on both the ADA and the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS).
Dr. Fritsch was reportedly a "non-stop fanatic" on fluoridation.
(Fluoridation the Great Dilemma, Waldbott, p.258)
In 1945 both Grand Rapids, Michigan and Newburgh, New York were artificially
fluoridated with sodium fluoride in their drinking water supply as an experimental
procedure to see if fluoride actually would improve dental health. According
to testimony of a 1952 Congressional Hearing on Fluoride, the officials
in charge of this "experiment" admitted that they hadn't really
had prior knowledge of artificial fluoridation with sodium fluoride (versus
naturally-occurring calcium fluoride), if it would actually work, nor what
side effects it would cause, because the standard scientific laboratory
method of first fully testing with animals had been ignored and bypassed
in this case of sodium fluoride. (82nd Congress, 2nd Session, Report #2500
- 1952 - House Select Committee)
The researchers' only prior knowledge was admittedly based upon observations
that in areas containing natural calcium fluoride (fluor-spar) in the water,
such as in parts of Texas and Colorado, tooth decay appeared to be less
prevalent. (No allowance was made for excellent nutrition in these opinions.)
There were no prior studies made with the highly toxic sodium fluoride,
which was actually what they used for fluoridation.
Note that an "optimum" level of 1 PPM of natural calcium fluoride
in water was what they studied in Texas and Colorado, yet they then dosed
our drinking water with 1ppm of the 20-times more toxic hazardous-waste
sodium fluoride, openly claiming that equal concentrations of each had
exactly the same effect on human health. Thus even their starting premise
was apples-versus-oranges.
The 1 PPM value was just picked at random because there were no tests or
studies showing exactly what was the "optimum" and because people
only supposedly drank one liter of water per day, and 1 milligram was a
"proper" daily dose for normal people with normal kidney function.
(It turns out that our actual average daily intake of fluoride is 2 mg,
however.) During the 1952 Delaney Committee Congressional Hearings, scientists
expressed concern that the dosage was much too high, especially for children
or people with diabetes or kidney disease.
Speculation was that before risking millions of lives in Grand Rapids and
Newburgh, artificial fluoridation with sodium fluoride was first secretly
tested on the population of U.S. prisons and/or military bases, to see
if 1 PPM would actually kill or injure anyone. (A Freedom of Information
Act research project?)
The Grand Rapids/Newburgh experimental study was originally set up with
the intention to last for a full 10 years, after which a proper scientific
evaluation of the collected data would have enabled a proper, safe decision
to be made regarding fluoridation of the rest of America's drinking water.
However, the U.S. Public Health Service suddenly changed their minds. In
1950, after only 5 years, it was discovered that while the cavity rates
had indeed gone down in Grand Rapids, cavity rates had also gone down at
a comparable rate in Muskegon, its control city, supposedly because people
were becoming more hygiene-conscious. Muskegon was then promptly fluoridated
to cover up the discrepancy, and the Grand Rapids fluoridation project
was advertised as an unqualified success. (Fluoride the Aging Factor, P.104)
WHY WAS THE FLUORIDATION OF NEW TOWNS KEPT FROM THE PUBLIC?
Article from the Royal Oak Tribune, 1/21/59: "FLUORIDATION IS
TOP SECRET Lansing (AP) -- Seven more Michigan communities started fluoridating
their water last year, the state health department reported today. But
the names of the communities are "top secret" as far as the department
is concerned. 'We made a policy of not giving out the names of those adding
fluoride, a couple of years ago,' said Dr. Fred Wertheimer, director of
the dentistry section. 'Local officials asked us not to make the announcements
from here. Communities are so split on fluoridation that they said they
would be barraged with letters and telephone calls from anti-fluoride people.'"
MORE VALUABLE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE WAS IGNORED
June 1965: Quote from Alfred Taylor, Ph.D, in a scientific letter appearing
in the Oct. 2, 1965 issue of Saturday Review:
" ... My contact with fluoridation came about as a result of cancer
research. In one project, various chemicals were added to the drinking
water of mice susceptible to cancer in order to check the responsibility
that some chemicals might delay the onset of the disease or prevent it
altogether. Among the chemicals used in this research was sodium fluoride.
In the first two preliminary tests, the results obtained indicated that
mice drinking fluoridated water tended to develop cancer at an earlier
age as compared with control animals maintained on fluoride-free water.
These earlier tests were followed by further investigations so that altogether,
twelve experiments involving 645 mice were used in this research.
"The data indicated that drinking water with as little as 1 PPM shortened
the life span of mice an average of nine per cent. This was true whether
death was due to cancer or non-cancerous diseases. The only notice proponents
of fluoridation gave to this work was to discredit it as much as possible.
... In experiments where the drug was added directly to suspensions of
cancer tissue before inoculation into eggs or mice, sodium fluoride stimulated
the growth of cancer tissue in concentrations of one part in more than
20 million. Scientists at Cambridge University (British Medical Journal,
Oct 26, 1963) discovered that concentrations of sodium fluoride as low
as one part in ten million inhibited the growth of a culture of human tissue.
... the growing weight of scientific evidence that water-borne fluorides,
even at 1 ppm, have toxic possibilities must finally be recognized."
ALFRED TAYLOR, Ph.D., Clayton Foundation, Biochemical Institute, University
of Texas, Austin Texas, 1965.
Some years later Dr. Taylor stated, "The terrifying conclusion of
the studies was that fluorine greatly induced a cancer tumor growth. If
doctors and the public can be made aware of this catastrophe, fluoridation
shall end quickly. It will someday be recognized as the most lethal and
stupid "Health Program" ever conceived by the mind of man, witch
doctors and blood-letters not excepted."
DELIBERATE LONG-TERM FLUORIDE OVERDOSE OF ALASKAN SCHOOL CHILDREN:
Keeping Dr. Taylor's findings and his above heartfelt plea in mind, how
can the following be justified by any sane scientist:
According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services publication
"FLUORIDATION CENSUS 1985", which lists the current fluoridation
levels of every fluoridated area in the United States, for the entire year
of 1985 the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) deliberately over-fluoridated
four Alaskan village schools at the rate of FIVE PARTS PER MILLION, instead
of at the currently approved rate of 1 PPM. The schools were Unalaska,
St. Michael, Shishmaref, and Stebbins. Why were these unsuspecting people
being thus experimented upon? How can five parts-per-million (a whopping
20 milligrams per gallon of water) be justified? Whatever the excuse, such
covert slow genocide should be actionable in a court of law. That was just
the 1985 record; previous years haven't yet been checked. (A subjective
first-hand eyewitness observation, by this author, of the people living
in Stebbins and St. Michael in 1995 gave a definite impression of a tragic
spiritual wasteland; something seemed very out-of-place with those people,
almost like looking into the haunted faces of prisoners in German death
camps in World War II. Go see for yourself.)
The EPA lists fluoride as a "contaminant." The above intentional
long-term 5 PPM overdose of innocent native schoolchildren occurred when
the EPA's "Maximum Contaminant Level" (MCL) allowable for fluoride
was just 2.4 parts per million.
In the early 1990's there was talk of having the EPA reduce the MCL of
fluoride down to .4 PPM, due to recent studies that had connected fluoride
with cancer.
A challenge: Have some autonomous toxicologists with no special-interest
axe to grind, do an honest, unbiased and thorough long-term scientific
study of the residents of the above Alaskan towns. Also include a study
of the residents of Hooper Bay, Alaska, where in May of 1992 a fluoride
overdose severely poisoned 290 residents and killed Dominic Smith. (Since
thirst is one of the fluoride overdose symptoms, Dominic just kept drinking
water until he poisoned himself.) Study what has happened to the above
people since fluoride became part of their lives and include their physical,
dental and mental histories as part of the study. Dental health is, after
all, why this entire situation began.
If fluoridation was doing its job as advertised, then the dental health
of Alaskan natives would be quite acceptable, but that's just the opposite
of the way it really is. Note this 12/17/90 article in the Ketchikan Daily
News: "NORTH SLOPE DENTAL HEALTH CALLED WORST IN U.S. Examiners
reported finding active cavities among Native children aged 3 through 5
at three times the national average. Nearly three-fourths of the 62 native
elders aged 65 or older had no teeth at all, the dental examiners said.
... The study population represented 38 percent of the total number of
Alaskan Natives in the North Slope Borough." Examiners said 40 percent
of elementary students had cavities, and 70 percent had cavities by the
time they reached high school.
In spite of the above poor record, in 1991 the Director of the Alaska Health
and Social Services publicly stated, ". . . fluoride has substantially
improved the dental health of Alaska Native Children." What's wrong
with this picture?
It's well-known that Alaskan natives today have almost the worst dental
health in the country, in spite of having been subjected to fluoridated
water for 40 years. (Incidentally, they practically live on candy bars
and soda pop.)
--Which leads us to ask, just exactly what causes dental cavities? On the
average, each American consumes 20-50 teaspoons of refined sugar each day.
Using 40 teaspoons as an average, multiplying 40 teaspoons times approx.
250,000,000 people totals 10 billion teaspoons of sugar sold EACH DAY,
just in the United States alone. That's very big business.
ADA AND U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ASSERTION: "GOD IS STUPID"
Vested interests who sell fluoride and pharmaceuticals, or who repair the
damage, would have you believe that God screwed up so badly in engineering
man's teeth that ALL of mankind is now born with a permanent deficiency
of fluoride, and thus mass medication--with a nerve agent--is the most
cost effective way to correct God's stupid error. However, the facts state
differently. Regarding dental cavities, refined sugar and soda pop are
two of the top contenders, whereas a sweeping lifetime-deficiency of rat
poison and nerve agents in our bodies is one of the biggest, most blatant
lies in all history.
Each year it's easy to find a school district science fair whereby a smart
kid makes an experimental study of soaking various items (pennies, extracted
teeth, etc.) in soda pop to see how long it takes to dissolve them. In
one such experiment it took only 14 days for Pepsi Cola to dissolve the
entire outer layer of enamel from a human tooth.
For the benefit of enlightening the U.S. Public Health Service, the ADA,
the AMA, and the sugar and soda pop industries, try this complicated scientific
experiment: Obtain a couple of extracted teeth, give just one of them a
standard stannous fluoride treatment which supposedly proofs it against
cavities, soak both of them in Coca-Cola or Pepsi--with a few teaspoons
of sugar added--for a couple of weeks, daily changing the liquid and scrubbing
the one tooth with fluoridated toothpaste, and then examine the two teeth.
That should conclusively prove who is more stupid, God or the broad general
public.
Since fluoridation was originally promoted as effective just for children
under 14 years old, then the public health officials had a problem. How
to justify mass-medicating adults with poisonous fluoride? One of the latest
public health schemes along this line actually states that fluoride in
saliva kills tooth plaque, emphasizing that the only way to get fluorine
in your saliva is via drinking fluoridated water! Nothing is said of the
toxic, life-shortening effects caused by having that much fluorine in your
body, however. It not only kills plaque, but everything else in its path.
Is the object only to give you the brightest smile in the morgue?
An unexplored avenue of interest here is the chemical concoction inside
a can of soda pop. Given the above statements about the corrosive action
of soda pop, and also given the data on aluminum's probable relationship
to Alzheimers disease, and also given the fact that soda pop is made with
fluoridated water, and given the fact that poisons combine synergistically,
usually in unpleasantly toxic ways, is there ANY guarantee whatsoever that
your typical fluorinated can of soda pop will not even slightly assimilate
some of the aluminum metal out of the wall of the can, and thus make a
synergistic soda-fluoride-aluminum-sugar cocktail that has slow acting,
long-term lifetime effects?
Simple research challenge: Find some unopened soda pop that's several years
old, and have a laboratory analyze the ingredients to check the aluminum
and fluoride concentration.
SWEDEN FLUORIDATION FAILURE
NOTE: The following data on Sweden and Holland could not be found in official
medical, dental or other scientific literature, almost as if it had been
purged or never been reported at all.
13 June 1970 the Gothenburg POST (Sweden); 5 Aug 1970 the NEWS REGISTER
(Sweden); and 1 May 1970 NORSK FOLKEHELSELAG (Norway) TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH:
In 1969 the country of Sweden intended to fluoridate their water supply
due to the strong advice of Professor Yngve Ericsson, a Swedish dentist
who was also the senior representative on the World Health Organization's
Expert Committee on Fluoridation. However, it was then found that Professor
Ericsson coincidentally was the holder of two highly-profitable patents
on fluoride toothpaste!
A subsequent investigation disclosed that the World Health Organization's
numerous so-called "objective" comparative studies on mortality
and morbidity for fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated areas simply didn't exist!
The investigation stated that the World Health Organization's report was
unacceptable from a scientific point of view, and that some of the claims
set forth in the WHO report actually lack any and every basis in fact.
The conclusion was that the details given by WHO on risks and safety margins
were grossly defective. Sweden thus remains non-fluoridated, to this day.
HOLLAND FLUORIDATION FAILURE
In the mid 1970's the Netherlands fluoridated the city of Amsterdam, after
which an investigation disclosed that between 100,000 and 200,000 people
had developed "more or less severe side effects" to fluoride.
A subsequent campaign by concerned physicians and public resulted in fluoride's
complete removal from the Netherland's water supply, and the national law
was also changed in such a way to permanently ban future fluoridation for
the Netherlands.
3-YEAR-OLD NEW YORK CHILD POISONED TO DEATH IN DENTAL CHAIR
June 28, 1974: Little William Kennerly, age 3, of New York died just four
hours after receiving a brush-on stannous fluoride treatment during his
first and only trip to the dentist. William didn't know that he wasn't
supposed to swallow the fluoride, and he paid with his life.
Extracts from the autopsy report, performed by a Dr. Torno on 25 May 1974
at Kings County Mortuary:
"William Kennerly
Case #K74-3511
AUTOPSY REPORT
Age: 3 years
Height: 39"
Weight: 32 lb
Clinical history - the child swallowed about 45cc of 2% stannous fluoride
solution in the pediatric dental clinic, Bristol Street Clinic, at 9:30
a.m.
He was given epinephrine I.M. in dental clinic and sent to Brookdale
Medical Center for close observation. The child came to Brookdale Medical
Center at 12:30 noon, was well until 1:00 when suddenly went into
Cardiac respiratory arrest and was in shock. The child vomited out and
had an unrecordable blood pressure. He finally expired on May 24, 1974,
at 2:00 p.m."
A toxicologist's report stated that little William had swallowed the equivalent
of three lethal doses. His parents later collected several hundred thousand
dollars in a wrongful-death lawsuit, but that was small consolation for
the senseless loss of their son.
Toothpaste is similar in this regard, because a typical family-sized 7-ounce
tube of toothpaste contains enough stannous fluoride or sodium fluoride
to kill a 20-pound child. To test this, just call the 800 number listed
on your toothpaste box, tell them that your 2-year-old child has just eaten
half a tube of toothpaste and that he's now vomiting, act frantic, and
watch how quickly your call gets patched directly through to a Poison Control
Center. (It's common for a child to vomit for 12 hours, after eating a
large quantity of toothpaste.)
CONGRESSIONAL INACTION
July 21, 1975: When confronted with new evidence regarding the role of
fluoride in causing cancer, U.S. Congressman Delaney recommended immediate
suspension of all artificial fluoridation, pending further research. His
recommendation was ignored.
Dec. 16, 1975: Congressman Delaney entered into the Congressional Record
the results of a new study showing another link between fluoridation and
cancer. This time he demanded "that all artificial fluoridation of
our water supplies be suspended immediately." Once again, his unprofitable
demands were ignored.
DENTAL ASSOCIATION PR LIE REVEALED
THE LIE: August 1, 1979: A letter from the Secretary of the Victorian Branch
of the Australian Dental Association stated, "In a community with
a fluoridated water supply, the dental manpower required to maintain a
good standard of dental health in a community is always halved."
THE TRUTH: The 1976 edition of the C.B.S. News Almanac published figures
showing the number of dentists per 100,000 population in 30 "Representative
American Cities." Of these 30 cities, 16 were artificially fluoridated.
A simple comparison of the fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated cities shows
that there were an average of 76.7 dentists per 100,000 population in the
fluoridated cities, vs. 59.2 dentists per 100,000 in the non-fluoridated
cities. Furthermore, data from the 1971 American Dental Directory, the
1971 U.S. Statistical Abstracts and the 1973 World Almanac reveals that
the three American cities which have been fluoridated the longest (Grand
Rapids, Newburgh, and Evanston) averaged 121 dentists per 100,000 population,
or over twice the national average, after approximately 25 years on fluoridated
water. (Data compiled by Phillip R.N. Sutton, D.D.Sc., Melbourne, Australia,
1979.)
JAPANESE FLUORIDE-RELATED CANCER RESEARCH
24 August, 1982: The Japan Times published an article expressing concern
about potential hazards of topical fluoride applications (9000 ppm) to
teeth, and fluoride mouth rinses (250-500 ppm) has prompted researchers
at the Nippon Dental College in Tokyo to investigate effects of fluoride
on hamster fetal cell cultures, with results that can only be described
as very disturbing. At the August '82 meeting of the Japanese Society for
Cancer Research, Associate Professor of Pharmacology Taketi Tsutsui and
his colleague, Dr. Maizumi, reported that 24-hour contact with sodium fluoride
solutions at concentrations of 34, 45, and 57 ppm (fluorine ion), results
in morphological changes and malignant transformations in second-generation
hamster fetal cells. After the one-day fluoride treatment, one group of
cells was cultured for one week and then fixed and stained for study. Survival
rates of 90, 50 and 30% were found for the exposure to 34, 45, and 57 ppm
respectively, with morphological changes of 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0% in the surviving
colonies. In the untreated control cultures, the incidence of abnormalities
was significantly lower -- only 0.03% or less.
In another series of experiments, cells from the 34 and 45-ppm fluoride
treatments were found to have acquired the ability to proliferate in soft
agar for an additional 50 to 200 days. These cells were then shown to have
developed a strong tumor-forming capacity. In the untreated control cultures,
neither proliferated in soft agar nor acquisition of tumor-forming capacity
were observed, and only one of four cultures had transformed into one having
infinite proliferative characteristics.
Between 100 and 200 days after the sodium fluoride treatment, cells from
the 34 and 45-ppm treated cultures were transplanted subdermally into each
of two 10-hamster groups. The animals were then observed for the appearance
of tumors. All surviving three hamsters in the group that received cells
from the 34-ppm treated culture developed cancer (fibro-carcinoma) at the
site of injection. Likewise, all eight surviving hamsters receiving the
45-ppm treated cells developed cancer. The other hamsters in both groups
died from causes other than cancer, before the experiments were completed.
None of the hamsters in the control group that received the untreated cells,
developed cancer.
FLUORIDE BANNED IN CUMBERLAND
1990: The residents of Cumberland, Maryland voted to ban fluoride from
their drinking water, not long after the community's 26-year ban on the
chemical was lifted because of the urging of dentists and other special-interest
officials. The fluoride issue divided the city such that it was reportedly
responsible for the defeat of Cumberland's incumbent pro-fluoride mayor
George Wycoff, who lost to Harry Stern, a strong opponent of fluoridation.
1992: Statement by Pennsylvania Justice Flaherty, after 40 days of court
hearings on fluoride: "... I entered an injunction against the fluoridation
of the public water supply for a large portion of Allegheny County. ...
In my view, the evidence is quite convincing that the addition of sodium
fluoride to the public water supply at one part per million is extremely
deleterious to the human body, and a review of the evidence will disclose
that there was no convincing evidence to the contrary." Pennsylvania
Supreme Court Justice John P. Flaherty (Townsend Letter For Doctors - June
1992, p. 450)
DEATH FROM FLUORIDATED WATER, 1992
May 23, 1992: 290 residents of Hooper Bay, Alaska were severely poisoned
by sodium fluoride when the city's fluoride dispenser malfunctioned, injecting
150 PPM of fluoride into the drinking water for over a week. Dominic Smith,
previously healthy 41 year-old leader of the local National Guard, died
of fluoride poisoning after swallowing an estimated 1200-2400 mg of sodium
fluoride from the local drinking water supply. One overdose symptom of
fluoride is thirst, and Dominic just kept drinking more water until he
died.
Fluoride is cumulative in the body--somewhat like radiation--so it's been
predicted that those poisoned residents who didn't die will have worsened
health for the rest of their life. (We'll know in a few years. Half of
the town drank from a different well, and they didn't get sick.)
It's common for a private vested interest to put up a "smokescreen"
by redefining terminology to fit their needs. In this case a Public Health
Service report regarding the above incident called it an "outbreak"
as if it were a live disease organism out of control, instead of the mass
poisoning that it actually was. (The end justifies the means; it's all
God's fault, after all, by being stupid and neglecting to engineer enough
fluoride into our bodies...)
NUMEROUS U.S. MECHANICAL FLUORIDE DISPENSER FAILURES
Similar malfunctions of fluoridation equipment have occasionally happened
nationwide over the past 40 years, each accompanied by a careful news cover-up.
Fluoride dispensing machinery is not perfect. Human overdoses of fluoride
can be found in such places as Annapolis, Maryland in 1979, when their
water treatment plant dumped up to 50 PPM fluoride into their water supply,
giving approximately 50,000 people toxic reactions. Officials kept it quiet
for 2 weeks afterwards saying, "We didn't want to jeopardize the fluoridation
program."
However, Dr. John Yiamouyiannis studied the Annapolis situation after the
spill, and reported his findings in a book, "Fluoride the Aging Factor".
On page 63 of his book, he stated that more than 5 times the normal number
of people died of heart failure in Annapolis during the week following
the fluoride spill.
During a conversation in 1992, Dr. Yiamouyiannis stated that the actual
cause of the Annapolis spill was a human error, done to cover up a mechanical
malfunction that had occurred. Evidently Annapolis had a small fluoride
day-tank which was supposed to fill up with fluoride and then the pump
would stop. However, the pump malfunctioned and kept running after filling
up the tank, and the excess fluoride spilled over into a large waste-sump
before it was finally discovered. To cover up the error, the operator who
discovered it deliberately pumped the entire overspill (1,000 gallons)
directly back into the fresh-water supply.
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 1980:244; 7) had
this short PR article on the above fluoride spill, meanwhile carefully
avoiding using Annapolis' name:
FLUORIDE. In what the PHS [Public Health Service] calls "the first
instance of fluoride overexposure known to have caused serious illness
in the 35 years since fluoridation of community water supplies was begun,"
eight patients undergoing renal dialysis (kidney bypass) in a Maryland
community became ill and one died. Charles M. Wax, MD, assigned by the
CDC to the Maryland State Department of Health, said investigation revealed
that failure to close a valve in the community's treatment plant led to
the spilling of 3,800 Liters (1,000 gallons) of 22% hydrofluosilicic acid
into the water supply. Further investigation, he said, "raised the
possibility of widespread mild fluoride intoxication within the community
as the result of drinking overfluoridated water."
Dr. Yiamouyiannis said that many fish in Annapolis pet shops died shortly
after the Annapolis fluoride spill.
JAMA's report was false, however. Public records show that contrary to
the above PHS claim that Annapolis was the first of such a malfunction,
the following 12 U.S. communities had had overdoses of sodium fluoride
in their water supplies before that time:
Rome, PA 6/6/72
Stanley County, NC, 4/16/74
Lebanon, PA, 8/20/75
Seattle, WA 5/76
Stanford Univ., CA 1976
Syracuse, NY 3/29/77
Marin County, CA 1977
Harbor Springs, MI 1977
St. Charles, MN 1978
Los Lunas, NM 11/17/78
Fenton, MI 1979
Island Falls, ME 1979.
Further, since 1979 the following communities have also had fluoride overdoses
in their drinking water supplies:
Nisqually Indian Res. WA 1980
Shaftsbury, VT 8/30/80
Potsdam, NY 1981
Morristown, NY 2/7/81
Saratoga Springs, NY 5/81
Pendleton, OR 6/28/81
Jonesboro, ME 10/6/81
Alameda County, CA 1982
Rouses Pt. NY 1982
New Braunsfels, TX 7/3/82
Painted Post Village, NY 12/14/82
Plattsburgh, NY 1/1/83
Marysville, MI 1983
Crown Pt. NM 1983
Grand Rapids, MI 7/84
Vancouver, WA 1/20/85
Elkhart, IN 2/5/85
Charleston, IL 1985
Sequoyah, OK 1986
New Haven CN 1986
Antigo, WI 1989
Hooper Bay, Alaska, May 1992 (one fatality, 290 toxic reactions).
In the July 84 Grand Rapids MI spill, 8 PPM of fluoride was reportedly
dumped into that city's water supply for more than a month, before being
discovered and repaired. In the 5/92 Hooper Bay Alaska spill, up to 150
PPM fluoride was tested in the village water supply one week before the
death of Dominic Smith, the near-death of his sister, and simultaneous
flu-like symptoms experienced by over 290 villagers.
80% OF ILLINOIS FLUORIDE TREATMENT PLANTS WERE FAULTY IN 1989
In 1989 the State of Illinois had 1,931 public water facilities, 1,000
of which were fluoridated. The State Health Department gave awards out
to each state water treatment facility that was able to maintain the recommended
dosage of fluoride in their water for the entire year, but they only gave
115 awards out to the 1,000 fluoridation facilities that year, meaning
that 885 treatment plants did NOT keep the fluoride dosages within required
limits. (Crete Record, Crete, IL 9/21/89)
JUST A SMALL AMOUNT OF FLUORIDE DECREASES REACTION TIME
From an article in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 67, No. 2, Pp.
230-238: Researchers in the Dept. of Psychology at Florida International
University, North Miami, found a statistically significant delay (almost
1/2 second longer to respond) in visual response to a peripheral light
stimulus in subjects given just 1/2 milligram of sodium fluoride. That
dose is less fluoride than the amount you get from drinking one cup of
coffee or tea made from fluoridated tap water.
FDA NEVER APPROVED CHILDREN'S FLUORIDE SUPPLEMENTS
June 3, 1993: New Jersey State Assemblyman John V. Kelly held a press conference
in Room 109 of the New Jersey State House in Trenton, NJ. He requested
that the FDA remove all children's fluoride supplements from the market,
after he asked the FDA to supply his office with the studies supporting
the safety and effectiveness of children's fluoride supplements and the
FDA evidently searched their files back to 1939 and reported to him that
NO DRUG APPLICATIONS HAD EVER BEEN FILED FOR THESE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
All children's fluoride supplements, in the FDA's own words, were and are
"unapproved new drugs." The pharmaceutical companies have been
openly running a scam for years, by selling these products.
Thus illegal, unscientific but highly profitable fluoride supplements are
still being promoted and sold by the medical and dental professions, meanwhile
in 1997 the FDA is quietly gearing up on an active campaign to ban common
herbs and food supplements from our health food stores for the purpose
of redefining them as "drugs" so that pharmaceutical companies
will then have a monopoly on these substances. (Follow the money.) To find
more data on this, do an internet search on the word CODEX, which is the
European program already in place.
1994: The US Public Health Service and the American Dental Association
are both continuing to strongly promote and expand the profitable U.S.
fluoridation campaign. They boast that over 60% of the United States population
is now drinking fluoridated water every day, even though fluoride's only
original stated purpose was to aid the developing teeth of children under
14 years.
VARIOUS FLUORIDE POISON REFERENCES
"Fluorine was substituted for chlorine in Lindane, to make it a far
more toxic substance." (Plummer, W.J. and Wall, L.H. Science, Vol.
127, 1958)
"Fluorine is substituted for chlorine in DDT to produce more effective
and more toxic insecticides." (Reimschneider, R. Suddent. Apoth. Ztg.
1947)
"Fluorine in the atmosphere increases the sensitivity of the thyroid
gland to damaging effects of atmospheric sulfur dioxide." (Gabovich,
R.D. et. al., Chemical Abstracts, p. 9051) In other words, fluoride has
a synergistic poisoning effect with sulfur dioxide, a component of smog.
"Sodium silicofluoride spray on oranges remains in the peel, and so
can cause severe toxicity..." (Union of So. Africa, Dept Agr. Forestry
Sci. Bull. No. 236, 1943) Note: Marmalade is made from citrus peel.
"1080, or Sodium Fluoroacetate, is described in a federal training
manual as a 'biological high-explosive.' " (Los Angeles Times, December
6, 1970)
Sodium fluoroacetate (also known as FAC, RATBANE 1080, COMPOUND 1080, FRATOL,
FURATOL, YASOKNOCK, SODIUM MONOFLUOROACETATE, and SODIUM FLUOACETIC ACID)
is listed in a hazardous waste book as being 500 times more toxic to rats
than was regular sodium fluoride. This is because it's an "organic
metabolite." 1080 was used to kill rodents as early as 1944, but was
eventually banned for use in buildings due to dogs dying from eating poisoned
rats. In 1952, according to Circular No. 140 of the UCLA College of Agriculture,
it was reported that 1080 worked so rapidly that it was impossible to save
experimentally poisoned animals, even with first aid and under the best
of laboratory conditions. Scientists had yet to find an antidote for 1080
at that time. Only our nerve warfare laboratories have the full story.
QUESTION: If fluoridation of our water supplies was originally stated to
be just for the "developing teeth of children under 14," then
why were U.S. military bases among the first to fluoridate their water
supplies? Why would anybody want Rambo to be STUPID, DOCILE, and SUBSERVIENT?
(And why did Admiral Forrestal "commit suicide" by jumping out
a window with his hands tied behind his back and a sheet knotted around
his neck, not long after he'd adamantly opposed the fluoridation of his
military bases, among other things?)
Incidentally, fluoride reactions resemble Attention Deficit Disorder in
a certain percentage of the population, and especially in hyperactive children.
The simple test of this is to get the person under question off of ALL
sources of fluoride (fluoridated water, toothpaste, soda pop bottled with
fluoridated water, canned soup, etc.) and see if their condition improves
over a period of 3-4 weeks. Use distilled water, because most simple charcoal
water filters will not remove fluorides. To remove possible variables,
also test the child for negative reactions to sugar and sugar-substitutes.
It's a tragedy that children are given the habit-forming drug Ritalin to
counter the effects of a "disease" that might only be due to
their adverse reactions to the drug fluoride, and/or to sugar. Following
the money, this tragedy is good business, and the "sickness industry"
is a multi-multi-billion-dollar business.
Note the following fluoride symptoms as referenced in "Encyclopedia
of Pure Materia Medica," Vol IX, p.333. These symptoms--by volunteers
who took varying quantities of fluorides--were listed one hundred years
ago, in 1887!
FLUORIDE SYMPTOMS:
--Great loss of memory, forgets almost everything.
--Good memory in morning, forgetfulness every evening.
--Forgetfulness in his daily employment of dates.
--On making notes, mistakes right for left.
--Mental weakness.
--Mental excitability.
--Feels indifference towards those he loves best.
--Aversion (intense dislike) to his own family, bordering on insanity.
--Gay disposition, everything is satisfactory.
--Excessive hilarity; great buoyancy of mind.
--Greatly depressed in mind.
--Exceedingly anxious, causing sweat; greater in morning than evening.
--Sensation as if danger menaced him, but without fear.
--Felt certain that something dreadful would happen, with dullness in head.
--Fear of apoplexy (stroke).
--Anxiety.
--Irritable, disagreeing mood.
--Moodiness in evening, greater than morning.
--Very ill humored.
--Discontent and excessive ill humor followed by indifference and forgetfulness,
and finally by perfect contentment and uncommonly gay disposition of mind.
--Congestion of blood mostly to forehead.
--Feeling in brain as if on the verge of being struck with apoplexy. (A
stroke)
--Vertigo with sickness of stomach.
--A kind of sinking weakness, has to sit down.
--Feeling as if in an earthquake.
--Sensation of weakness, like numbness in head, same in hands.
--Sensation of numbness in forehead.
--Congestion of blood in forehead.
--Heaviness above eyes, with nausea.
--Severe pressing of both temples.
--Compressing pain in temples.
--Slight pain in right temple, followed by left.
--Headache in skull, behind ears.
--Headache accompanied by congestion of blood to head, sensation of numbness.
--Headache every morning.
--Sensation of weakness, like numbness in head.
--Numbness in head and hands.
--Dull, heavy headache.
--Congestive headache.
--Dullness & pressure in back of head.
--Dullness in back of head.
--Pressure on both sides, back of head.
--Headache in back of head, with fullness in head.
--Headache from neck to forehead; dull feeling in head.
--Atrophy of brain.
Is it a coincidence that the above-listed fluoride symptoms sound almost
exactly like the TYPICAL EVERYDAY ANECDOTAL PATIENT ILLNESS COMPLAINTS
which today's expensive TV commercials, pharmacies, physicians and psychiatrists
are so eager to "cure" with their endless supply of profitable
new drugs, many of which contain fluoride? This is like a snake swallowing
his own tail.
The bottom line is to follow the money. Look at the high standard of living
of those who are promoting and distributing the current crop of pharmaceuticals,
versus the lower living standards and drug-education level and gullibility
of the ignorant general public who are becoming convinced that pharmaceuticals
in general are a NUTRIENT. Public sickness and ignorance is good business,
in some circles.
--Found on the Internet, March 18, 1997:
ENVIRONMENTALLY-CAUSED MENTAL RETARDATION
Mental Fluorosis: Brain Damage from Exposure to Fluorides
By George Glasser
(Courtesy of Sarasota ECO Report, Guy Alland, Publisher. P.O. Box 35500
Sarasota, FL 34242 (941) 925-1946)
"Those who are for and against fluoridation have little common ground
other than issues they disagree on. They cannot dialogue objectively because
they have different realities. They see things differently, and have different
criteria in determining validity. Our lives are enriched by artists for
whom "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." But our lives are
often endangered when scientific truth is in the eye of the beholder."
(Dr. Schatz, discoverer of streptomycin)
Only now are the insidious facts about Sarin (nerve gas) surfacing as more
comes out about the "Gulf War Syndrome" and the Tokyo subway
incident. It appears that with both incidents, the people exposed to Sarin
are suffering from a variety of chronic adverse health and lingering neurotoxic
effects such as memory loss.
Sarin is the most potent neurotoxic substance known. Sarin is also a fluorinated
organophosphate similar to, but more toxic to humans than the insecticide
Parathion. Sarin is the prime example of toxicokinetics of the fluorine
ion. When the fluorine ion is combined with relatively benign substances
it often creates a powerful toxicant (toxic synergism). With Sarin, the
fluorine ion is like an arming mechanism for the relatively benign organophosphate
which transforms it into a compound with one hell-of-a-wallop.
Acute exposure to Sarin, a drop about the size of a grain of sand, causes
spasms (tetany), heart palpitations (cardiac arrhythmia), many other neurological
disorders, and possibly, collapse of the nervous system and death. Production
of acetylcholine, the most important chemical for nervous system function
is disrupted. Acetylcholine is responsible for carrying all neuro-transmissions
in the brain and throughout the nervous system of the body.
Many animal studies of fluorinated organophosphates also suggest a delayed
neurotoxic reaction similar to those experiences by those people exposed
to Sarin.
With water fluoridation, the public is exposed to a variety of fluorides,
and aside from the fluorine ion, some of those fluorides are neurotoxic.
Many scientists discount the fluorine ion as being neurotoxic; however,
the weight of scientific evidence strongly indicates that the fluorine
ion is, if nothing else, the perpetrator. This is evidenced by the variety
of highly effective fluorinated drugs that are used to treat mental disorders,
and the fluorine ion's role in the devastating effectiveness of Sarin as
a chemical nerve agent.
Many psychoactive drugs are fluorinated. Two of the most noted are Prozac
and Rohypnol (better known as the infamous date-rape drug, "Roofs.").
Rohypnol is fluorinated Valium, which is about 20-30 times more potent
than Valium alone. Essentially, these drugs effect enzyme functions in
certain areas of the brain to achieve the desired effect. The primary ingredients
of most psychoactive drugs suppress enzyme production, and the fluorine
ion is also an enzyme inhibitor. The one particular side effect common
to almost all fluorinated drugs which is mentioned in the Physician's Desk
Reference is memory loss. These drugs include Fenfluramine (a fluorinated
weight loss drug), fluorinated corticosteroids, and fluorinated psychoactive
drugs. Memory loss and learning disorders are associated with the hippocampal
area of the brain.
On page 125 of the Toxicological Profile for Fluorides it is stated: "Neurotoxicity:
Because fluoride interacts with calcium ions needed for effective neurotransmission,
fluoride can affect the nervous system." This statement is reinforced
by recent studies performed by Dr. Robert Isaacson and Dr. Phyllis Mullenix
which were concluded shortly after the publication of the profile.
Since 1992 there have been three studies confirming that fluorides affect
brain functions. Dr. Robert Isaacson, Binghamton University, New York conducted
two studies using low levels of aluminum fluoride and sodium fluoride.
The levels were similar to the amounts people are exposed to on a daily
basis from fluoridated toothpastes and drinking water. Results showed that
both types of fluorides were neurotoxic. The most recent study, "Neurotoxicity
of Sodium Fluoride in Rats", Mullenix, et al, published in Neurotoxicology
and Teratology 1995, was done using larger doses of sodium fluoride and
corroborated the results of both Isaacson studies (1992 &.1994).
All the studies demonstrated that the hippocampal region (learning center)
of the brain was the most susceptible to the effects of fluorides.
It was also stated in the study published in Neurotoxicology and Teratology,
1995, Mullenix, et al, that: "Hyperactivity and cognitive deficits
are generally linked with hippocampal damage, and in fact, the hippocampus
is considered to be the central processor which integrates inputs from
the environment, memory, and motivational stimuli to produce behavioral
decisions and modify memory." However, the researchers said that although
the behavior of rats does not extrapolate to humans, the generic behavioral
patterns created in rats from fluoride exposure can and probably do occur
in humans. They also said the problems that might occur in humans from
typical chronic fluoride exposure during pregnancy and early childhood
are: "motor-sensory dysfunction, IQ deficits' and/or learning disabilities"
(environmentally induced retardation of brain development).
While Dr. Mullenix's study dealt only with sodium fluoride, Dr. Isaacson's
studies focused on aluminum fluoride compared to sodium fluoride and were
performed to determine if fluoridated water's effect on leaching aluminum
or combining with the aluminum sulphate added to some water as a clarifier
[by water treatment facilities] had an impact on the development of Alzheimer's
Disease. Alzheimer's studies had determined that there was a significant
build-up of aluminum in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.
Population studies also suggested that there appeared to be a higher incidence
of Alzheimer's disease among people who lived in fluoridated areas which
was the impetus for Dr. Isaacson's study.
Isaacson's study indicated that the aluminum fluoride was more neurotoxic
than the sodium fluoride.
Recent studies in China, where coal containing fluorides is used for cooking
and heating, determined that fluorides released during burning and inhaled
by young children were responsible for lowered IQ's.
Documents with regards to the neurotoxic effects of fluoride exposure among
the workers who processed uranium for the first nuclear bombs in 1944 were
recently declassified by the government. These documents indicate that
the US Government has known for more than fifty years that fluorides are
neurotoxic. Other studies dating back to 1949 indicate that exposure to
fluorides can have neurotoxic effects on animals.
The first form of nerve gas, Soman (a fluorine compound) was developed
by the Germans during World War II which indicates that scientists were
well aware of neurotoxicity of fluoride compounds almost sixty years ago.
Through water fluoridation, the general population, especially children
who are most susceptible to developmental changes, are exposed to fluorides.
In the "Toxicological Profile for Fluorides", 1993, page 90,
it states, "The fluorine ion carried in human blood serum exists in
two forms, namely as an inorganic ion (F-) and in combination with an organic
molecule. The toxicological significance of the latter form is unknown.
A portion of circulating fluoride acts as an enzyme inhibitor because it
forms metal-fluoride-phosphate complexes that interfere with the activity
of those enzymes requiring a metal ion cofactor. In addition, fluoride
may interact directly with the enzyme or the substrate. It is a general
inhibitor of the energy production system of the cell...."
The fluorine ion has a negative electrical charge while metal ions have
a positive electrical charge, and they readily combine to form metal-fluoride-complexes.
Both metal ions and fluorine ions are very small. Consequently, they can
easily pass through cell membranes. Once in the cell, a natural chemical
reaction occurs where the fluorine ion is released from the metal ion.
The fluorine ion interferes with the enzyme function and continues on,
while the metal ion is left behind. It is also possible for the fluorine
ion to attach to a trace mineral such as zinc which is essential to enzyme
function and remove it from the cell. This same scenario is how fluoride
acts as a delivery mechanism for psychoactive drugs, but with water fluoridation,
the passenger is a neurotoxic substance such as lead, mercury or aluminum
for which the brain is the target organ.
Because the poisoning of the brain is accomplished from chronic, low-level
doses of highly potent (synergized) metal-fluoride-complexes, conventional
standards used to determine intoxication would be inadequate (a linear
dose-response to a particular neurotoxic substance). Like Rohypnol or Sarin,
the neurotoxic substances may well be synergized with the addition of the
fluorine ion. Consequently, lead or mercury fluoride combinations could
be much more neurotoxic than the independent metal ion.
While symptoms may indicate that a person is suffering from neurotoxicity,
the method and standards used to measure toxicity and/or serum levels of
substances would not indicate toxic levels in the body. The present accepted
method used by researchers to determine adverse effects is to attempt to
target a single substance as the causative rather than address chemical
interactions that can and do occur when chemicals are metabolized in the
human body or through environmental reactions. The consequences of not
considering synergized chemical interactions would be misdiagnoses and
possibly the prescribing of a medication that may exacerbate the condition.
To further confound the problem, there are only several animal studies
available on the neurotoxic effects of metal-fluoride-complexes on which
to base any diagnosis.
The present thought among most pro and anti-fluoridation scientists and
researchers is that since the neurotoxic metal-fluoride-complexes are only
found at trace levels in fluoridated water, they are of little significance.
Most scientists are only concerned with how much of a specific toxicant
will cause an adverse immediate health effect, not how little of a synergized
toxicant will cause an adverse health effect with prolonged chronic, low-level
exposure.
The problem with fluorides is that it is difficult to prove that the fluorine
ion had anything to do with a metabolic crime involving neurotoxic damage
related to metal-fluoride-complexes. This is because the fluorine ion is
the vehicle that carries the neurotoxic substance, effectively delivers
it to the target area of the brain where it will do the most damage, leaves
it, and then continues on its metabolic journey.
With lethal doses of poisons such as Sarin or sodium fluoroacetate, it
would be almost impossible to determine that a person had been poisoned
from the fluorinated toxicants. This is because of the bioactivity of the
fluorine ion which is in a constant state of transition as it travels through
the body. With these fluoride compounds, the examining physician would
have to know that a person was exposed to these substances to determine
the cause of death, otherwise, it would be written off as heart failure.
Diagnosing the effects of chronic, low-level exposure to fluoride compounds
would be almost impossible unless appropriate research was done to determine
what those adverse affects were and that the physicians were aware of the
research.
In essence, it can be said that the ubiquitous fluorine ion when combined
with another substance could be the perpetrator of almost perfect neurological
or biological crimes. This is because: 1. Neither toxic levels of the fluorine
ion nor the accomplice substance can be placed at the scene of the crime
in significant amounts to indicate intoxication; 2. Scientists generally
discount toxic synergism as a factor with chronic fluoride toxicity; and
3. there is no research data on which to base a diagnosis.
The weight of scientific evidence suggests that the fluorine ion is the
most logical perpetrator of neurotoxic damage. It is also a scientific
fact that the fluorine ion has a particular affinity for metal ions of
which some, such as lead, aluminum and mercury are neurotoxic and accumulate
in brain tissues. And it is a well known scientific fact among toxicologists
that the fluorine ion acts as a synergizing agent for many toxicants. Consequently,
it is only logical to assume that the neurotoxic metal-fluoride-phosphate
complexes act as potentiated neurotoxicants. [Note: Only several hundred
registered professional toxicologists exist in the entire U.S.)
The only adverse effects most scientists are interested in with regards
to water fluoridation are the effects of the fluorine ion, which is an
intangible, and which accumulates in endpoint tissues after the fact (meaning,
after the metabolic damage has been done). The fluorine ion, alone, only
exists instantaneously in a transitional phase during such a chemical reaction.
Long term effects of low-level chronic exposure to synergized fluoride
compounds/complexes are possibly considered inconsequential, although the
population is exposed to low-levels of these cumulative chemicals on a
daily basis via fluoridated water, toothpaste, mouthwash, residual fluorinated
insecticides, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides on fruits and vegetables
along with environmental fluoride pollution.
In the Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 69, Feb. 1990, pg. 584, there is
a mention of toxic synergism and concern over metal-fluoride complexes
in Recommendations from Session IV, Needed Research, #7, "Consider
variations in physiological, nonphysiological, and pathological changes
__ for example, diet, ambient temperature, altitude, environmental pollution
and disease states. Environmental pollutants __ heavy metals, for example
__ should be monitored not just for their effects on Fluorine but for their
other effects per se".
The effects of long-term, low-level exposure to these cumulative metal-fluoride
complexed neurotoxicants and organophosphates are contingent on several
factors: The age of the person, diet, health, vitamin and mineral deficiencies,
genetic disposition, ethnicity, length of exposure, previous exposure to
neurotoxicants, medications, and environmental factors. Not all people
react the same.
There is much research data on the neurotoxic effects of lead, mercury
and aluminum: Lead is associated with environmental retardation (learning
disorders); mercury is associated with various nervous and mental disorders
(the "mad hatter" syndrome, where hatters once used mercury to
make felt hats); and aluminum has been associated with memory loss (Presenile
dementia, or Alzheimer's disease). However, since there are only several
studies about neurotoxic metal-fluoride-complexes, one can only speculate
what effects chronic, long-term, low-level exposure to synergistic combinations
of these complexes could be.
In reviewing pharmaceutical, agricultural and chemical warfare research
data, it appears safe to assume that the neurotoxic effects of metal-fluoride-complexes
would be magnified as with the case of Rohypnol and other psychoactive
drugs. It is also logical to believe, that like soldiers suffering from
Sarin exposure ("Gulf War Syndrome"), there might not be an antidote
for the adverse metabolic reaction caused by organophosphates that are
also used in agricultural products or metal-fluoride-complexes. Possibly,
continued chronic exposure to low-levels of fluorides might well exacerbate
the initial effects.
(END of George Glasser's article)
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SARIN (MILITARY DESIGNATION "GB")
As previously stated, Sarin was developed and used by the Nazis in Germany,
used by terrorists in Tokyo several years ago (in Newsweek Magazine's coverage
photos of the Tokyo gas attack, did you notice the photo of numerous small
light-green barrels clearly marked SODIUM FLUORIDE, in the terrorist's
Sarin-manufacturing facility?), and used by Iraq in the Gulf War.
The following EPA Chemical Profile of SARIN nerve gas was recently published
on the Internet, after pressure from Gulf War Syndrome veterans. Notice
this quote from SECTION VII of the following chemical profile, regarding
the neutralization of SARIN: "Rapidly hydrolyzed by dilute aqueous
sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate forming relatively non-toxic products.
Water alone removes the fluorine atom, producing a non-toxic acid (Merck
1983, p. 1204)"
THUS, THE FLUORINE ATOM IS THE SINGLE INGREDIENT THAT CHANGES A NON-TOXIC
ACID INTO SARIN, ONE OF THE MOST VIRULENT AND DEADLY NERVE GASES KNOWN
TO MANKIND.
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EPA CHEMICAL PROFILE October 31, 1987
CHEMICAL IDENTITY - SARIN (Military Chemical Nerve Agent)
CAS Registry Number: 107-44-8
Synonyms [alternate names]: (NIOSH/RTECS 1983 Synonyms, Volume 3, p. 122)
-- GB
-- MFI
-- IMPF
-- T-144
-- T-2106
-- TL 1618
-- Sarin II
-- Trilone 46
-- Isopropyl Methylfluorophosphate
-- Isopropyl Methanefluorophosphonate
-- Isopropoxymethylphosphoryl Fluoride
-- Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl Fluoride
-- Phosphine Oxide, Fluoroisopropoxymethyl
-- Methylphosphonofluoridic Acid-Isopropyl Ester
-- Phosphoric Acid, Methyifluoro-Isopropyl Ester
-- Phosphonofluoridic Acid, Methyl-Isopropyl Ester
Chemical Formula: C4H10FO2P
Molecular Weight: 140.11
SECTION I -- REGULATORY INFORMATION
CERCLA (SARA) 1986:
Toxicity Value Used for Listing Under Section 302: LC50 inhalation
(human) 0.07 mg/liter (*NIOSH/RTECS 1985)
TPQ: 10 (pounds)
RQ: 1 (pound) (statutory, for notification under SARA Section 304(a)(2))
Section 313 Listed (Yes or No): No
SECTION II --PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Physical State: Liquid
Boiling Point: 2970F, 1470C (Merck 1983, p. 1204)
Specific Gravity (H2O=1): 1.10 at 200C/40C (Merck 1983, p. 1204)
Vapor Pressure (mmHg): 2.9 at 250C (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4)
Melting Point: -710F, -570C (Merck 1983, p. 1204)
Vapor Density (AIR=l): 4.86 (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4)
Evaporation Rate (Butyl acetate=1): About the same as water (U.S. Army
1975, p. 3-4)
Solubility in Water: Miscible with and hydrolyzed by water (Merck 1983,
p. 1204)
Appearance and Odor: Liquid (Merck 1983, p. 1204). A colorless liquid and
vapor. Almost no odor in pure state (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-3 to 3-4).
SECTION III -- HEALTH HAZARD DATA
OSHA PEL: Not Found
ACGIH TLV: Not Found
IDLH: Not Found
Other Limits Recommended: Not Found
Routes of Entry: Inhalation: Yes (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4)
Skin: Yes (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4)
Ingestion: Yes (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4)
Health Hazards (Acute, Delayed, and Chronic): Extremely toxic; lethal dose
in humans may be as low as 0.01 mg/kg. [10 parts per billion.] Extremely
active cholinesterase inhibitor. Toxic effects similar to, but more severe
than those of parathion (Merck 1983, p. 1204). Death within 15 minutes
after fatal dose is absorbed (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4).
Medical Conditions Generally Aggravated by Exposure: Not Found
SECTION IV -- FIRE AND EXPLOSION HAZARD DATA
Flash Point (Method Used): Non-flammable (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4)
Flammable Limits:
LEL: Not Found
UEL: Not Found
Extinguishing Methods: Extinguish with foam, carbon dioxide, and dry chemical
(Sax 1984, p. 1662)
Special Fire Fighting Procedures: Protective clothing and respiratory protection
(U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-5).
Unusual Fire and Explosion Hazards: Non-flammable (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-5)
NFPA Flammability Rating: Not Found
SECTION V - REACTIVITY DATA
Stable: Yes (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4)
Conditions to Avoid: Not Found
Incompatibility (Materials to Avoid): Slightly corrosive to steel (U.S.
Army 1975, p. 3-4). Hydrolyzed by water (Merck 1983, p. 1204).
Hazardous Decomposition or Byproducts: Acidic conditions produce hydrogen
fluoride; alkaline conditions produce isopropyl alcohol and polymers (U.S.
Army 1975, p. 3-4). When heated to decomposition or reacted with steam,
it emits very toxic fumes of fluorides and oxides of phosphorus (Sax 1984,
p. 1662).
Hazardous Polymerization:
May Occur: Not Found
May Not Occur: Not Found
Conditions to Avoid: Not Found
SECTION VI -- USE INFORMATION
Quick-acting military chemical nerve agent (U.S. Army, p. 3-4). Chemical
warfare agent (Merck 1983, p. 1204).
SECTION VII -- PRECAUTIONS FOR SAFE HANDLING AND USE
Rapidly hydrolyzed by dilute aqueous sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate
forming relatively non-toxic products. Water alone removes the fluorine
atom producing a non-toxic acid (Merck 1983, p. 1204).
Decontaminants include bleach slurry, dilute alkali, hot soapy water, steam
and ammonia (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4).
SECTION VIII-- PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
For emergency situations, wear a positive pressure, pressure-demand, full
facepiece self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) or pressure-demand
supplied air respirator with escape SCBA and a fully-encapsulating, chemical
resistant suit. See the introductory information section at the beginning
of the profiles for additional information.
SUIT MATERIAL PERFORMANCE (Based on EPA/USCG "Guidelines", 1987)
(Chemical Resistance/Amount of Data)
Butyl/Neoprene GOOD/LIMITED**
Viton/Neoprene GOOD/LIMITED**
*Based on qualitative performance information.
**Based on a chemical analog.
SECTION IX -- EMERGENCY TREATMENT INFORMATION
Signs and Symptoms of Exposure: Symptoms include difficulty in breathing,
drooling, excessive sweating, nausea, vomiting, cramps, involuntary defecation
and urination, twitching, jerking, staggering, headache, confusion, drowsiness,
coma, convulsion, dimness of vision and pinpoint pupils (U.S. Army 1975,
p. 3-3)
Emergency and First Aid Procedures: Immediate decontamination of the smallest
drop is essential. Vapor penetrates the skin (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3.4).
Toxic effects are similar to parathion (Sax 1984, p. 1662). Treatment for
parathion is as follows: move victim to fresh air; call emergency medical
care. If not breathing, give artificial respiration. If breathing is difficult,
give oxygen. In case of contact with material, immediately flush skin or
eyes with running water for at least 15 minutes. Speed in removing material
from skin is of extreme importance. Remove and isolate contaminated clothing
and shoes at the site. Keep victim quiet and maintain normal body temperature.
Effects may be delayed; keep victim under observation (DOT 1984, Guide
55).
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