AMESBURY, Mass. –Fluoride is added to the water most of us drink because the government believes it’s a safe and inexpensive way to prevent tooth decay. However, Team 5 Investigates found the Amesbury Water Department pulled fluoride from its system amid concerns about its supply from China. Department of Public Works Director Rob Desmarais said after he mixes the white powder with water, 40 percent of it will not dissolve.
“I don’t know what it is,” Desmarais said. “It’s not soluble, and it doesn’t appear to be sodium fluoride. So we are not quite sure what it is.” Desmarais said the residue clogs his machines and makes it difficult to get a consistent level of fluoride in the town’s water. Since April the fluoride pumps in Amesbury have been turned off and they will stay that way until Desmarais can find out what’s in the fluoride that’s imported from China. Both state and federal health officials told Team 5 Investigates that Chinese fluoride is safe.
The Department of Public Health said it believes that more than 650,000 customers in 44 Massachusetts communities are getting the flouride in question and only Amesbury has temporarily stopped using it. Approximately 1,000 water systems in the United States use the additive to adjust the fluoride in their water supply, according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Since 2007, most of the sodium fluoride has been imported from China because it’s the least expensive on the market. “I don’t think that when it comes to something that I ingest every day that the lowest bidder is good enough,” Stewart said. Testing continues to determine the precise composition of the residue.
If the government says it’s safe that’s good enough for me, how about you?
I’d trust Dvorak to tell me what those Communist have sold our Communists before I trusted what my Communists claimed.
It’s either melamine or lead.
Fluorines are a waste byproduct from metals smelting, such as aluminum. Its a genius move for coporations to tout the benefits of fluoride in the water supply, killing 2 birds with one stone by helping get rid of a toxic waste they normally would have to pay to get rid of.
Sodium used in nuclear reactors and is so dangerous that it explodes on contact with water.
Chlorine is used in WWI poison gas and turns into deadly acid on contact with water.
Yet the government lets our precious little children put both sodium and chlorine on their french fries.
Well water. I’ll take the toxins from run off over my other options.
#4… and water is made from rocket fuel.
As always, “The dose makes the poison.”
Thousands of people die from water every year and yet they tell people to drink 8 glasses of it every day!
Watch out. Chinese fluorides are laced with baby formula!
First of all, isn’t fluorine in its elemental form a gas? Second, why do we import this stuff from China in the first place? Do we not make enough of it here from all the aluminum smelting plants? or have those all been outsourced too?
So domestic water additives are too expensive. But imported ones, of questionable quality are much cheaper. And nobody ever thought to check. Go figure! If these state governments can’t afford the domestic brand. Why don’t they do, what they’re doing with education, fire, and police protection. CUT BACK ON IT! Do we really need complete water fluoridation, 24/7 ? Besides, I rather resent the government deciding I must have it in my drinking water. Rather than trusting me to brush regularly. If only they were that conscience of providing some level of free basic health care. A dental plan would be nice. But no, they only want to spring for a weak treatment of the water, to slowdown cavities. Bullsh*t! Mail out some dissoluble tablets. So we can exercise the option of treating only the water we drink. Rather than wasting it on all the water we flush down the tub and toilet, and thru the washing machines.
Rather than actually prove that this water treatment, significantly reduces tooth decay. They do it anyway, just in case. And are even willing to risk poisoning everyone, with foreign supplies of the stuff.
It’s this sort of crusader pseudo-science thinking, that makes me question what crackpot solutions will they come up with to reverse Global Warming? And inflict upon us, in order to “save the world”, without any proof that it actually does any good? But they’ll do it anyway, “just in case it might work”. Regardless of its negative side effects. Which they’ll cover up for.
Dan Berger, looks to be a student of Don Rosa’s art style. For a minute I thought Rosa was doin something other than Scrooge McDuck comics.
Curry’s going to eat this with a spoon!
This reminds me of a classic scene in one of my very favourite movies.
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk… ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children’s ice cream.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I… no, no. I don’t, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen, tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first… become… well, develop this theory?
General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh… I… I… first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue… a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I… I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh… women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh… I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.
General Jack D. Ripper: But I… I do deny them my essence.
People need to know that domestically produced fluoridation chemicals are allowed to contain trace amounts of lead, arsenic, mercury and other toxins by NSF International (pdf), the US governing body over water additives
Meanwhile, representatives from the Centers for Disease Control tell legislators lies about the safety of fluoridation. See
I think I am going to call BS I have been in the business of water treatment for 20+ years both potable and non-potable. This sounds more like a bad operator. Chinese made fluoride? No way this is cheaper than domestic. Why feed powder, when liquid is easily accessible and easier to introduce, and easier to regulate the dosage. “I don’t think that when it comes to something that I ingest every day that the lowest bidder is good enough,” and what color is the sky in your world.
clancy_daddy… having been involved with ingredients selection for consumer products as a product development manager, I can assure you that almost any commodity – even simple stuff – from China is cheaper – predatory cheaper.. but at a cost.
ANYTHING you source from China needs 100% testing for actual content. There’s just too many hidden levels of trading on goods over there. Too many places for substitution and fraud.
And quite frankly, honesty just takes second seat to profit in China and thanks to the Chinese “legal” system, they can not be successfully sued by foreigners for negligence.
The best you can hope for is some local Chinese to die, then the government will execute those responsible (unless of course they are politically well connected, in which case someone else will be killed), but dead non-Chinese doesn’t seem to bother them.
As for powder vs liquid, one typically mixes powder into water on-site to make a batch, then add the solution with a metering pump. Shipping and storing water is expensive.
So the Chinese poisoned the poison that was dumped into the water?
http://holisticmed.com/fluoride/
I want to drink clean water. Not this poison.
I specifically get bottled water to drink that does not contain fluoride. Fluoride will hurt you even if the Chinese did not poison it. In fact, the Chinese poisons might be better for you than the fluoride.
Recent article about arsenic in apple juice concentrate, a majority of which comes from China.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/health/arsenic-in-apple-juice-how-much-is-too-much/1079395