Repeal The Poughkeepsie Fluoridation mandate

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Author: Aholder

Started: October 27, 2009, 1:56:51 pm

Target: Dutchess County Board of Health

Category: Health

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110

Goal:

10,000

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Active

The Dutchess County Board of Health wishes to amend article 5 Section 5.6 of the Dutchess County Sanitary Code So that \"effective January 1, 2011 all public water supplies serving 10,000 or greater consumers in Dutchess County will maintain a fluoride concentration in water available to consumers at a level recommended by the New York State Department of Health.\"
The amendment was revised on August 26, 2009 yet not presented to the public until almost THREE(3) months later.

Read the proposed amendment here:
www.co.dutchess.ny.us/CountyGov/Departments/Health/HDPublicHearingArticle5Sect56.pdf

This amendment DOES NOT specify what the level will be and neglects to take into account the risks as outlined in the accompanying 49 published health studies such as:
Increased hip fracture in the elderly specifically males
Neurotoxicity
Lowered intelligence in children
Depletion in brain membrane
Earlier onset of sexual maturity
Osteosarcoma (bone cancer)
Chromosomal abnormalities
Reduced birth rates
Lymphoma
Increase in downs syndrome of babies born to mothers with fluoride exposure.
Increase in fluoridosis(discoloration of teeth)

www.fluoridation.com/epa2.htm#Reference%204

The most common forms of Fluoride :
(1) Sodium Flouride is a byproduct(waste at end of production) of Aluminum manufacture
(2) Fluorosilicic acid is a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer.
Furthermore the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) regards such fluorides as contaminants.

The New York Department of Health HAS NOT stated why it REFUSED to answer 33 specific questions about flouride safety and efficacy as posed by the city of Poughkeepsie ( which lead the City of Poughkeepsie to discontinue flouride use in February of 2008).

Both the State and County Departments of Health neglect the LARGEST and most Comprehensive study {Recommendations for flouride use in children. Kumar,J.V. and Greedn, E.L.New York State Dent.J. (1998) 40-47} which concluded \" NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE in caries(cavities) in fluoridated, non-fluoridated and partially fluoridated communities.

As the State and County Departments of Health tout the benefits of flouride and the savings in Medicaid dental treatment costs why then are they not FORCING every water supply in the County or State to fluoridate?

We the undersigned ask that the amendment be repealed and the choice to fluoridate be left to the CITIZENS and their elected officials.

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Added by: Aholder on October 27, 2009, 2:00:48 pm
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The Dutchess County Board of Health wishes to amend article 5 Section 5.6 of the Dutchess County Sanitary Code So that \"effective January 1, 2011 all public water supplies serving 10,000 or greater consumers in Dutchess County will maintain a fluoride concentration in water available to consumers at a level recommended by the New York State Department of Health.\"
The amendment was revised on August 26, 2009 yet not presented to the public until almost THREE(3) months later.

Read the proposed amendment here:
www.co.dutchess.ny.us/CountyGov/Departments/Health/HDPublicHearingArticle5Sect56.pdf

This amendment DOES NOT specify what the level will be and neglects to take into account the risks as outlined in the accompanying 49 published health studies such as:
Increased hip fracture in the elderly specifically males
Neurotoxicity
Lowered intelligence in children
Depletion in brain membrane
Earlier onset of sexual maturity
Osteosarcoma (bone cancer)
Chromosomal abnormalities
Reduced birth rates
Lymphoma
Increase in downs syndrome of babies born to mothers with fluoride exposure.
Increase in fluoridosis(discoloration of teeth)

www.fluoridation.com/epa2.htm#Reference%204

The most common forms of Fluoride :
(1) Sodium Flouride is a byproduct(waste at end of production) of Aluminum manufacture
(2) Fluorosilicic acid is a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer.
Furthermore the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) regards such fluorides as contaminants.

The New York Department of Health HAS NOT stated why it REFUSED to answer 33 specific questions about flouride safety and efficacy as posed by the city of Poughkeepsie ( which lead the City of Poughkeepsie to discontinue flouride use in February of 2008).

Both the State and County Departments of Health neglect the LARGEST and most Comprehensive study {Recommendations for flouride use in children. Kumar,J.V. and Greedn, E.L.New York State Dent.J. (1998) 40-47} which concluded \" NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE in caries(cavities) in fluoridated, non-fluoridated and partially fluoridated communities.

As the State and County Departments of Health tout the benefits of flouride and the savings in Medicaid dental treatment costs why then are they not FORCING every water supply in the County or State to fluoridate?

We the undersigned ask that the amendment be repealed and the choice to fluoridate be left to the CITIZENS and their elected officials.