Fluoride Abundant in Foods, Beverages, Dental Products & More; Fluoridation Unnecessary

Fluoride chemicals are added to public drinking water supplies in a failed effort to reduce tooth decay in tap water drinkers. Fluoridation is controversial but, even those promoting fluoridation, agree that ingesting too much fluoride is a bad thing. Fluoridation began in 1945 when it was virtually the only fluoride source. Now there are many.

Total fluoride intake should be determined before prescribing more, reported former New York State Department of Health Dental Director, J. Kumar, He wrote: “Because of the availability of fluoride from multiple sources, practitioners should prescribe other forms of fluoride therapy based on an understanding of patients’ total exposure to fluoride and the need for it,” (NYS Dental Journal, February 1998). Few dentists, if any including him, heed that advice.

But now, as the California state dental director and American Dental Association’s National Fluoridation Advisory Committee, Kumar says “my job is to promote fluoridation.” Legislators mistakenly assume their health departments are studying the issue; but they aren’t. So it seems unelected bureaucrats are leading our “leaders.”

Never is fluoride intake tallied when communities are pressured to continue or start fluoridation. Legislators should know much fluoride children already ingest before feeding them more via their water supply.

In fact, a 1999 study specific to non-fluoridated Connersville, Indiana, showed resident children got sufficient fluoride from foods, beverages and dental products. Dentists ignored that inconvenient fact pushed more fluoride into them in 2000 after a successful lobbying effort to start fluoridation.

Fluoride sources are many:

Absent from labels, fluoride is in virtually all foods and beverages, including, soda, baby foods and all infant formulas, It’s high in tea (up to 6 mg/L) and ocean fish. Grape products (raisins, juice, wine, jellies, jams) because of fluoride-containing pesticide residues. EPA allows extremely high amounts of fluoride pesticide residues on foods See “Fluoride tolerances approved b US EPA as of July 15, 2005”

Fluoride is even in chocolate and french fries.

Foods made with mechanically separated (boned) chicken, such as canned meats, hot dogs, and infant foods, also add fluoride to the diet (J Agric Food Chem Sept 2001) “A single serving of chicken sticks alone would provide about half of a child’s upper limit of safety for fluoride,” the researchers report.

Fluoride ingested daily from toothpaste ranges from 1/4 to 1/3 milligram (National Institutes of Health) “Gels used by dentists are typically applied one to four times a year and can lead to ingestions of 1.3 to 31.2 mg fluoride each time.”

Fluoride is in 20% of medicines, food packaging.) and inhaled from air pollution

Other sources come from feed regimens of animal products, animal products; food storage containers (Teflon-coated containers); and food packaging (migration of perfluorochemicals into food).

How much is too much?

According to the National Academy of Sciences, “without causing unwanted side effects including moderate dental fluorosis,” (yellow splotched teeth), the adequate daily intake of fluoride, from all sources, should not exceed: (But does)

— 0.01 mg/day for 0–6-month-olds (which is in every infant formula — concentrated or not)

— 0.5 mg/day for 7 through 12 months

— 0.7 mg/day for 1–3-year-olds

— 1.1 mg/day for 4–8 year olds

This is what moderate dental fluorosis looks like, according to the US Centers for Disease Control

The US Department of Health and Human Services (1991) estimated that total fluoride exposure in fluoridated communities ranges from 1.6 to 6.6 mg/day

Further, parents need to know that fluoride supplements have “not been found by FDA to be safe and effective.”

No evidence proves anyone is or ever was fluoride-deficient. Fluoride isn’t a nutrient or essential for decay-free teeth — meaning that fluoride-free diets do not cause cavities. Fluoride is a drug with side effects. In fact, 70% of US kids are fluoride overdosed and afflicted with dental fluorosis — white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth which created a lucrative market for cosmetic dentistry because fluoride is everywhere. But tooth decay is still epidemic

The EPA regulates water fluoride levels to protect against fluoride-caused bone damage. So It’s important to know that fluoride concentration in drinking water does not equate to an individual’s daily dose. Fluoridation should never begin without fore knowledge of the community’s fluoride intake from all sources.

FLUORIDE IS ALSO INHALED FROM AIR POLLUTION

“Chief sources of fluoride pollutants are glassworks, steelworks, ceramic factories, phosphate fertilizer plants, brickworks, aluminum factories and uranium smelters. Combustion of coal is also source of fluorine pollution to some extent. Most injurious fluoride pollutant is gaseous hydrogen fluoride (HF). Fluoride is released into the air in large quantities by aluminum reduction plants, phosphate processors, steel mills, coal burning operations, brick and tile manufacturers, and various less significant sources (8). It can cause adverse effects when ingested by domestic animals or absorbed by plants. Fluoride air pollution adversely affect health of human beings. Fluorides are released into the atmosphere in gaseous state (as hydrogen fluoride and silicon tetra-fluoride) as well and in form of solid particles. These particles fall on and the gases are absorbed by, plants/ vegetation near the source of pollution. If such vegetation/ plants are consumed by the animals like cattle, sheep, horses, or pigs they will suffer from serious problems as these animals, particularly the cattle are vulnerable to fluoride (9). Ninety-six percent of the ingested fluoride accumulates in the bodies of animals is incorporated into the crystal structure of bone and tooth mineral (10, 11). Fluorides affect the bones & teeth (9, 12, 13).”

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