October 26, 2019
The Fluoride Action Network has published the press release below. Please email the PR
Newswire version of
our release to you local decision makers and the news editors of the
media outlets in your community, large and small (newspaper, radio, TV,
online).
NTP Study:"Fluoride is presumed to be a
cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to humans"
On Oct 22, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) published a draft
review of fluoride's neurotoxicity concluding:
"…fluoride
is presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to humans. This
conclusion is based on a consistent pattern of findings in human
studies
across several different populations showing that higher fluoride
exposure is associated with decreased IQ or other cognitive impairments
in children."
For years the Fluoride
Action Network (FAN) has been drawing attention to fluoride's neurotoxicity. There are
61 human IQ studies linking lowered IQ with fluoride exposure, many of which FAN had translated from the original Chinese.
FAN
disagrees with NTP's conclusion that studies "with [fluoride] exposures
in ranges typically found in the water distribution systems in the
United States (i.e., approximately 0.03
to 1.5 ppm) …are inconsistent and therefore unclear (our emphasis)."
FAN's director Paul Connett, PhD, says, "the studies funded by US government agencies (Bashash et al. 2017, 2018; Green
et al., 2019) were at exposure levels commonly experienced with fluoride water concentrations below 1.5 ppm, and are consistent, very clear and stronger than the earlier Chinese studies at levels
above 1.5 ppm (Choi
et al, 2012)
because they were based on individual exposures, with many confounding
variables carefully controlled. In reality, it is the studies with lower fluoride levels of exposure that have
provided the strongest evidence."
Connett continued, "We hope that, when the National
Academy of Sciences completes its peer review, NTP will raise the classification of fluoride to a 'known' from 'presumed'
neurodevelopmental hazard to humans. Whether they do or not, the
weight of scientific evidence in the NTP review should be sufficient to
force an end to fluoridation."
Dr. William
Hirzy, former Environmental Protection Agency risk assessment
specialist, says, "Damage at a concentration of 1.5 ppm in water offers
no meaningful margin of safety to
protect the brains of a whole population of infants drinking
fluoridated water at 0.7 ppm. Without going into detailed calculations
of total dose, a safety factor of ten (to account for the expected range
of sensitivity in a large populations), would reduce
the allowed level in water to less than 0.1 ppm in water."
Connett
asks, "How can anyone now claim that community water fluoridation is
safe? And why allow it to continue when safer and more effective
programs (e.g., Childsmile)
exist?"
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