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To P.A. City Council for April 22,2015 APR 2 0 2015
From Eloise Kailin,M.D. for Protect the Peninsula's Future CITY OF FORT ANGELES
CITY CLERK
A policy to promote fluoridation which was established under President Truman still controls
management decisions of all federal agencies. Fluoride is widely known as "the protected
pollutant", enjoying permissive standards used for less toxic materials. When EPA received
the Report on Fluoride in Drinking Water (2006) then in 2007 Beltrans' report that dental
fluorosis affected 41% of teenagers nationally, and finally the Report on Relative Source
Contribution, (2010) which shows more than ample fluoride coming from non-water sources, it
should have recognized that there is no longer an excuse to continue water fluoridation.
Instead it lowered drinking water fluoride to a level that still permits widespread fluorosis. EPA
predicts and accepts severe fluorosis in one of every two hundred people. Dental fluorosis is
linked to hip fractures and more recently also to lowered I.Q in children. EPA's prime driver
appears to be protection of government policy and a bureaucracy.,
Europe is not constrained by U.S. policy.
Reference 1. Swiss Canton Basel-Stadt stops Fluoridation of Drinking Water on 9 April 2003.
A news release from Forum for Responsible Application of Science , Basel and
Fluh/Switzerland by scientist Rudolph Ziegelbaecker.
In April 2003 Swiss Canton Basel-Stadt stopped fluoridation with a stinging comment on
effectiveness of water fluoridation: "The preventive effect of the fluoridation of drinking water
could not be proved by any When specialists do not succeed in producing definite proof
in 40 years, the issue has to be abandoned."
Reference 2.. Statements from European health, water., and environment authorities on water
fluoridation. Fluoride Action Network (F.A.N.), (2007) 4 pages.. http://fluoridealert.org/news
Also first 3 pages Tooth Decay Trends in Fluoridated vs Unfluoridated Countries, F.A,N July
2012.
Currently 97% of the Western European population drinks non fluoridated water. Included
Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Iceland, Italy Luxenbour ,
Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Portugal Scotland Sweden, Switzerland, and
approximately 90 per cent of both United Kingdom and Spain. Teeth are doing fine.See graphs
and text detail.
Reference 3. Israel Will End Fluoridation in 2014, Citing Health Concerns. Fluoride Action
Network August 8, 2013., and first page Judicial decision..
Israel dropped fluoridation effective in 2014. Their Supreme Court's Ruling noted : "The
Petitioners have indicated the dangers that this policy entails and have claimed that the concept
on which the Original Regulations were based is outdated and is no longer widely accepted."
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Rudolf Ziegelbecker 1 Konradin Kreuzer2
FORUM FOR VERANTWORTBARE ANWENDUNG DER WISSENSCHAFT,BASEL and FLUH/Schweitz;
(FORUM FOR RESPONSIBLE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE,BASEL and FLUH/Switzerland)
Peterstalstrasse 29, A-8042 Graz/Austria CH-4112 Fluh/Switzerland
Telefon/Fax+43 316 47 11 28,e-mail:<ziegelbecker.sen @utanet.at> e-mail:<konradin.kreuzer @nux.ch>
http://www.nux.ch
Graz/Basel, 27 April 2003
Dear All, We would like to inform you about the following:
Swiss Canton Basel-Stadt
stops
Fluoridation of Drinking Water
on 9 April 2003
The Great Council of the Swiss Canton Basel-Stadt has, on April 9, 2003, on a
motion brought forward by the Commission for Health and Social Issues, totally
repealed the "Resolution of the Great Council concerning the introduction of
fluoridation of drinking water for the control of caries". The fluoridation of drinking
water initiated by Basel-Stadt on May 2, 1962 was thus stopped after 41 years.
The reasons that were given were:
• The preventive effect of the fluoridation of drinking water could not be proved by
any study. When specialists do not succeed in producing definite proof in 40
years, the issue has to be abandoned.
• Inspite of the fluoridation of drinking water caries has been on the increase with
children.
• The danger of fluorosis is played down, nobody talks about fluorosis of the bones.
The fluoridation of drinking water is particularly problematic in the case of young
children and babies.
Engineer and physicist, retired 31.12.1989, formerly scientist at the Center for Electron Microscopy of the Technical
University of Graz and at the Institute for Environmental Research at the Research Center Graz.Member of the'International
Biometric Society (IBS)", Member of the "International Society for Fluoride Research (ISFR)", Member of the "New York
Academy of Sciences", Foundation member of the "Forum ftir verantwortbare Anwendung der Wissenschaft, Basel (1973)',
Former member of the "Scientific Council of the International Society for Research on Civilisation Diseases and Vital
Substances" (1970) and of the "Scientific Council of the International Scientific Academy for the Protection of Life, for
Environmental and Biopolitics,Luxembourgh"(1971). 1 am a member of the Commission"§13 Tierversuchsgesetz"BGBI.No.
501/1989 W.F.BGBI.I Nr.169/1999 under the presidency of the Federal Minister for Science in Vienna,Austria.
Physical,chemical and biological qualities and quantities of fluorides cannot be influenced by governments and international
organizations.Therefore the independent scientific level of knowledge must be taken into consideration.
2 Konradin Kreuzer,dipl.ing.Chem.ETH,Founder and Secretary of the"Forum for Responsible Application of Science,Basel
1973"
• Less than 1% of the fluoride in drinking water is actually used for "prevention of
caries", more than 99% of the fluoridated water is used for washing, cleaning,
industrial production etc. and thus only pollutes the environment, a very
undesirable imbalance.
Rudolf Degelbecker Konradin Kreuzer
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declined in Europe as precipitously over the past 50 years as they have in the United
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tooth decay in the United States since the 1950s is largely attributable to the advent of
water fluoridation. 97%OF WESTERN EUROPE HAS REJECTED
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"Toxic fluorides have never been added to the public water supplies in Austria." FLUORIDE IS NOT A NUTRIENT
SOURCE(httr)://v'Avw.fluoridealert.ora/uploads/austria.pdf):M. Eisenhut,Head of (HTTP://WWW.FLUORIDEALERT.ORG/STUDIES/ESSE
Water Department,Osterreichische Yereinigung fur das Gas-und Wasserfach NUTRIENT/).
Schubertring 14,A-1015 Wien,Austria,February 17,2000,
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BELGIUM—Unfluoridated Water,Fluoridated Salt:
"Caries-free children increased from 4%to 50%...A remarkable decline in dental
caries was observed during the 15-yr period."
SOURCEL Carvalho JC,Van Nieuwenhuysen JP,D'Hoore W.(2001).The
decline in dental caries among Belgian children between 1983 and 1998.
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 29:55-61.
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DENMARK—Unfluoridated Water,Unfluoridated Salt:
"The paper presents an overview of the oral health situation in Denmark...
[N]ational oral epidemiological data have been provided since 1972.Partly due to
the preventive approach,a general decrease over-time in the prevalence of
dental caries has been documented for children and adolescents.For example,
in 1972 children in first class had a mean caries experience of 12.4 def-s against
3.9 def-s in 1990.'
SOURCE:Petersen PE.(1992).Effectiveness of oral health rare—some Danish
experiences.Proceedings of the Finnish Dental Society 88:13-23.
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FINLAND—Unfluoridated Water,Unfluoridated Salt:
"During the 10 years,substantial decreases were seen in the mean numbers of
dental visits(from 4.0 to 2.4)and fillings(from 2.9 to 1.2).The greatest decrease
was seen in the number of fillings made in incisors."
SOURCE:Vehkalahti M,Rytornaa I,Helminen S.(1,991).Decline in dental caries
and public oral health care of adolescents.Acta Odontologica Scandinavica 49:
323-8.
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FRANCE—Unfluoridated Water,Fluoridated Salt:
"Epidemiological surveys showed a marked decrease of caries prevalence in
French children during the last 20 years."
SOURCE:Obry-Musset AM.(1998).[Epidemiology of dental caries in children]
[Article in French]Arch Pediatr 5:1145-8.
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GERMANY-Unfluoridated Water,Fluoridated Salt:
"Caries rates are on the decline in the Federal Republic of Germany,too.Arid,in
some cases considerable,increase in the number of children with caries-free
teeth and a clear reduction in the average number of carious teeth has been
recorded,above all in kindergartens with preventive dentistry programmes."
SOURCE:Gulzow HJ.(1990).[Preventive dentistry in the Federal Republic of
Germany][Article in German]Oralprophylaxe 12:53-60.
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THE NETHERLANDS-Unfluoridated Water,Unfluoridated Salt:
"According to WHO criteria,12-year-old children in The Netherlands now have a
very low caries experience."
SOURCE:Truin GJ,Konig KG,Bronkhorst EM.(1994).Caries prevalence in
Belgium and The Netherlands.International Dentistry Journal 44:379-8,
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NORWAY&all SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES-Unfluoridated Water,Unfluoridated
Salt:
"Denmark,Iceland,Norway,and Sweden have all had a similar decline in dental
caries during the last 20 years,although the decline has come later in Iceland.
Despite the differences in choice of preventive methods,the dental health of
children varies little across the frontiers."
SOURCE:Kallestal C,at al.(1999).Caries-preventive methods used for children
and adolescents in Denmark,Iceland,Norway and Sweden.Community Dentistry
and Oral Epidemiology 27: 144-51.
"Despite differences in the dental health care services and the recording and
reporting systems,a consistent and similar decline in dental caries is evident for
Denmark,Finland,Norway and Sweden during the last two decades."
SOURCE:von der Fehr FR.(1994).Caries prevalence in the Nordic countries.
International Dentistry Journal 44:371-8.
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SWEDEN-Unfluoridated Water,Unfluoridated Salt:
"Between 1967 and 1992 the mean dmfs values declined from 7.8 to 1.8.The
decline was greatest between 1967 and 1980 and then levelled off."
SOURCE:Stecksen-Blicks C,Holm AK.(1995).Dental caries,tooth trauma,
malocclusion,fluoride usage,toothbrushina and dietary habits in 4-year-old
Swedish children:changes between 1967 and 1992.International Journal of
Paediatric Dentistry 5:143-8
"During the last decade,a continuous decrease in dental caries has been
observed among schoolchildren in Iceland...There does riot seem to be any
single factor responsible for the onset of the caries decline."
SOURCE:F_inarsdottir KG,Bratthall D.(1996).Restoring oral health:On the rise
and fall of dental caries in Iceland.European Journal of Oral Science 104:459-
69.
GREECE—Unfluoridated Water,Unfluoridated Salt:
"The percentage of caries-free children for the total examined population
increased by 94%while the reduction in DMFT index ranged between 38 and
70%.Treatment need was significantly lower in 1991 compared to 1982 in both
dentitions."
SOURCE:Athanassouli 1,et al.(1994).Dental caries changes between 1982 and
1991 in children aged 6-12 in Athens,Greece,Caries Research 28(5):378-82.
SWITZERLAND—Unfluoridated Water,Fluoridated Salt:
"Caries prevalence has declined by 70-84 percent since the late sixties."
SOURCE:Marthaler TM.(1991).[School dentistry in Zurich Canton:changes as
a result of caries reduction of 80 to 85 percent][Article in German]
Oralprophylaxe 13: 115-22.
"Surveys of dental caries prevalence were carried out from 1970-1993 in
schoolchildren of the city of Zurich.DMFT experience declined by 68 to 80`:x,
while the average drnft decreased by 48-53%(ages 7 to 9).°
SOURCE:Steiner M,Menghini G,Curilovic Z;Marthaler T.(1994).[The caries
occurrence in schoolchildren of the city of Zurich in 1970-1993.A view of
prevention in new immigrants][Article in German].Schweiz Monatsschr Zahnmed
104:1210-8.
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Fluoride advocates often claim that the reduction in tooth decay that has occurred
since the 1950s is the result of the widespread introduction Of fluoridated water.In (http'!/fluoridealert.myshopify.COm/)
1999,for example,the Centers for Disease Control stated that"as a result[of water
fluoridation],dental caries declined precipitously during the second half of the 20th FAN NEWSLETTER
century."As support for this assertion,the CDC,published
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in all western countries, irrespective of whether the country ever fluoridated its (HTI-P://WWW FLUORIDEALERT.ORG/ISSUES/SOURCES/F
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their tooth decay rates have declined at the same rate as the U.S.and other
fluoridated countries.This fact,which is widely acknowledged in the dental literature IN EUROPE,FLUORIDE WAS ONCE
(see below),can be quickly demonstrated by examining the World Health PRESCRIBED AS A DRUG TO REDUCE THYROID
Organization's(WHO)data on tooth decay trends in each country. The following two ACTIVITY.
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Country DMFTs Year Status*
Denmark 0.7 2008 No water fluoridation.
No salt fluoridation.
Germany 0.7 2005 No water flUondation.
67 7.Salt fluoridation.
England 0.7 2009 11°, water fluoridation.
No salt fluoridation.
Netherlands* 0.8 2002 No water fluoridation.
No salt fluoridation.
Switzerland" 0.82 2009 No waterfluoridalion.
88%salt fluoridation.
Belgium 0.9 2009-10 No water Iuor dation.
No salt fluoridation.
Sweden 0.9 2008 No vaterfluondation.
No sal!fluoridation.
Australia 1.0 2003-2004 60':�water fluoridation.
No salt fluoridation.
Austria 1.0 2002 No waterfluordation.
6°:,salt fluoridation.
Ireland 1.1 2002 100`;1,waterfluoridalion in study.
No salt fluoridation.
Italy t A 2004 No waterfluordalion.
No salt fluoridation.
UnitedSfates 1.19 1999-2004 64%vaater111-toridation.
No salt fluoridation.
Finland 12 2006 No water fluoridation.
No salt fluoridation.
France 1.2 2006 No water fluoridation.
65%salt fluoridation.
Spain 1.3 2004 11 l water fluoridation.
10%salt fluoridation.
Greece 1.35 2005-06 No water fluondation.
No salt fluoridation.
Iceland 1:i 2005 No water fluoridation.
No salt fluoridation.
New Zealand 1.4 2009 61%water fluoridation.
No salt fluoridation.
Japan 1.7 2005 No water fluoridation.
No salt fluoridation.
Norway 1.7 2004 No water fluoridation.
No salt fluoridation.
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PUBLISHED RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY ON THE DECLINE IN TOOTH DECRY IN THE WESTERN
WORLD:
"Although the prevalence of caries varies between countries,levels everywhere
have fallen greatly in the past three decades,and national rates of caries are
now universally low.This trend has occurred regardless of the concentration of
fluoride in water or the use of fluoridated salt,and it probably reflects use of
fluoridated toothpastes and other factors,including perhaps aspects of nutrition.'
SOURCE:Cheng KK,et al.(2007).Adding fluoride to water supplies.British
Medical Journal 335(7622):699-702.
Israel Will End Fluoridation in 2014, Citing Health Concerns
SOURCE: Fluoride Action Network I August 8, 2013
On July 29, 2013, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that new regulations require Israel to
stop adding fluoride chemicals into public water supplies in one year. . . .
Izun I-Iozer Association for Dissemination of Health Education and Yaacov Gurman
petitioned Israel's highest court, November 12, 2012, demanding that the Ministry of
Health order the cessation of fluoridation because it resents health dangers and its
benefits are no longer widely accepted.
A 1974 regulationovided legal authorization for communities in Israel to fluoridate
water. Since few communities elected to do so, another regulation was passed in 1998
that mandated fluoridation for all Israeli communities with more than 5,000 people. In
April 2013, however, the Minister of Health Yael_German, revolted both the 1974 and
1998 regulations.
4`It must be known to you that fluoridation can cause harm to_thehealth of the chronically
ill," including "people yhD-suff. rom thyroid problems,' German wrote in a letter
addressed to doctors opposed to ending fluoridation.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Ministry's new regulations will not only bring an end to
mandatory fluoridation in Israel in 2014 but will also put an end to any fluoridation—
mandatory or voluntary. See translation of the Court's ruling at:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/israel_supreme—Ctjuly2O l3.pdf
Many communities, over the last few years, stopped fluoridation in the US, Canada, New
Zealand and Australia. Recently, both Wichita, Kansas and Portland, Oregon rejected
fluoridation 60% to 40%. Hamilton, NZ, councilors voted 7-1 to stop 50 years of
fluoridation after councilors listened to several days of testimony from those for and
against fluoridation
Windsor, Ontario, stopped 51 years of fluoridation. Sixteen regional councils have halted
or rejected fluoridation in Queensland since mandatory fluoridation was dropped there in
Nov 2012.
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At the Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice
High Court Case Number 8173/12
Before: The Honorable Deputy Chief Justice M.Naor
The Honorable Justice U. Fogelman
The Honorable Justice D. Barak-Erez
The Petitioners: 1. Izun Hozer Association for Dissemination of Health
Education in Israel
2. Yaacov Gurman
Vs.
The Respondents: 1. State of Israel
2. Minister of Health
Petition for granting a decree nisi
On behalf of the Petitioners: Advocate Ashkenazi Dan
On behalf of the Respondents: Advocate Liora Weiss-Bansky
Ruling
Justice D. Barak-Erez:
1. The Petition before us was submitted on November 12, 2012, and at its center is the
Petitioners' demand that Respondent 1, the Ministry of Health, order the cessation of adding
fluorine to drinking water. Fluorination, as aforesaid, has been performed according to the
concept 'supporting it as an act of preventative medicine for protecting the population's dental
health, and was set in the Public Health Regulations (Health-Related Quality of Drinking Water),
1974 (hereinafter: the Original Regulations). The Petitioners have indicated the dangers that this
policy entails and have claimed that the concept on which the Original Regulations were based is
outdated and is no longer widely accepted.
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jTranslated from the original Hebrew by TransPerfect on August 7, 2013
courtesy of Fluoride Action Network(www.fluoridealert.org)