What's In The Water?

Read the documents below to get a better idea:

Specifications of Dirty Fluoride Agent (HFS) (download PDF now)
A typical batch of commercial grade fluoridation product is 24% Hydrofluosilicic acid and 76% waste water which contains varying amounts of heavy metals.

Letter, March 14, 1994, from Cosme Water Treatment Plant, City of St. Petersburg(download PDF now) (65K)
St. Petersburg, Florida, contracts with Lucier Chemical Industries for its fluosilicic acid. Lucier purchases the chemicals from Cargill Fertilizer, Inc.

Why Should the Public Care About Arsenic in Drinking Water?(Go to site now)
Report by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Chart of HFS metals in drinking water after dilution*(download PDF now) (See Page 7 for Chart)
* obtained from NSF International by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science during their investigation of fluoridation, dated July 7, 2000.
As reported to Congress, Table 1 shows arsenic contamination of up to 1.66 parts per billion from Hydrofluosilicic acid (HFS), the substance added to Boulder's drinking water as a fluoridation agent.

Summary, "Arsenic in Drinking Water" (2001 Update), Committee on Toxicology, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences (download PDF now).
Table S-1 shows 20 excess lung and bladder cancers per 10,000 U.S. citizens from exposure to 3 micrograms/liter (or ppb) arsenic in drinking water (p. 12, image 13 of the pdf (file). Based on the linear dose-response relationship assumed by the Committee (pp. 6, 11), 1.5 ppb arsenic in drinking water causes an additional 1 in 1000 lung and bladder cancers over a lifetime of consumption, enough to cause an additional 100 of such cancers in a city the size of Boulder.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 2000, response to questions posed by subcommittee of the House Committee on Science (download PDF now) (69K)
"Fluoride, when used in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animal, is a drug that is subject to FDA regulation." "No New Drug Applications have been approved or rejected for fluoride drugs meant for ingestion."

Letter, April 2, 1998, from EPA Director, Office of Science and Technology (download PDF now) (33K)
"In the U.S., there are no Federal safety standards which are applicable to drinking water additives, including those intended for use in fluoridating water."

The 1998 AWWA Standards Committee on Fluorides (download PDF now) (65K)
Listed are the 17 members of the "volunteer standards committee" which review and approve the fluoride standard. The Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary are from the CDC, Lucier Chemical Industries, and Kaiser Aluminum & Chem. Corp., respectively. Cargill Fertilizer Inc. and Chemtech are producer members.

Dartmouth news release, Aug. 1999: Silicofluorides are associated with increased lead levels (download PDF now) (26K)
Analyzing a survey of over 280,000 Massachusetts children, investigators found a significant association between water fluoridated with silicofluorides and children suffering from blood lead poisoning.

Chemical and Engineering News abstract of 1998 Brain Research study (download PDF now) (65K)
Test animals treated with the same concentration of fluoride used in fluoridated tap water suffered neural injury and increased deposits of B-amyloid protein in the brain, similar to those seen in humans with Alzheimer's disease.

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