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In 1984 a toxicology reference book gave fluoride a toxicology rating of 4 (very toxic). They go on: “the fact is that fluoride is more toxic than lead and just slightly less toxic than arsenic.” Yet the US Environmental Protection Agency set the maximum contaminant level for lead at 0.015ppm and for fluoride at 4.0ppm. 

That’s 266 times higher. Does that make any sense? This in spite of the fact that more than 100 fatal acute fluoride intoxications were reported between 1935 and 1981. Fluoride has been linked to genetic damage. One study found that just 1ppm inhibited DNA repair and damaged chromosomes. Another found “a highly significant increase in mutation.” Dr Perry Cohn surveyed a number of areas of New Jersey. He found the incidence of bone cancers in boys was up to 4.6 times higher in the fluoridated areas. Some studies also suggest that fluoride has a causal relationship with respiratory, oral and uterine cancers. Chinese scientists showed that children in highly fluoridated areas have a lower IQ than those who are fluoride free. 

Fluoride has also been shown to accumulate in the pineal gland to inhibit melatonin production in animals. This causes earlier onset of sexual maturity. Many mood altering drugs like Prozac (fluoxetine), designed to act on the central nervous system, include fluoride in their chemical makeup. A safe intake of fluoride is supposed to be 1 milligram a day. But apart from fluoridated water, many foods contain fluoride. The pesticide cryolate, which is over 50% fluorine is used on apples, raisins, lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, peaches and most berries. A single cup of tea may contain up to 0.2mg of fluoride. 

Then there are toothpastes, gels, flosses and mouthwashes, Teflon coated cookware (poly-tetra-fluoroethane), cigarettes and some pharmaceuticals. By the 1990’s the US Dept. of Health put the daily consumption for US fluoridated cities at 6.5mg. Healthy kidneys will excrete about 50% of ingested fluoride. But what if they’re not up to par? This is what the Journal of the American Medical Association had to say in 1972: “Children, the elderly and any person with impaired kidney function are in the high risk group for fluoride poisoning and must be warned to monitor their fluoride intake. 

Also at high risk are people with immunodeficiencies, diabetes and heart ailments as well as anyone with calcium, magnesium and vitamin C deficiencies. At the level of 0.4ppm renal impairment has been shown.” How elderly are the elderly? The US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry reiterated the above statement in 1993 and added: “People over the age of 50 often have decreased fluoride renal clearance.” Only 5 countries in the world fluoridate their water supply to any great degree. 

Only 2% of the population of Western Europe drink it, and most of those are in England. All supportive studies are either poor or moderate. If the benefits are so obvious why do so few countries utilise it? The reason is simple. They don’t wish to poison their populations with an industrial waste product whose benefits are highly dubious and whose damaging effects are so obvious.