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EUREKA SPRINGS -- Possibly in advance of filing a lawsuit, a Eureka Springs couple delivered a letter to the Carroll-Boone Water District in late May. The notice was directed to all board members, water operators and attorney for the district and warns against "non-compliance, unlawful activity, misrepresentation and liability" related to the implementation of the state's mandated water fluoridation.
The notice warns CBWD that "indemnification, hold harmless agreements, and government immunities" do not protect them against lawsuits.
"Carroll-Boone alone has the duty to assure that claims made for the public policy of fluoridation are met by the specific (fluoridation) product Carroll-Boone chooses." It adds that Carroll-Boone could become "complicit" if it does not disclose all necessary information about contaminants in the product, warn consumers about its dangers and use restrictions, monitor the effects of and the performance of the additive and other duties and responsibilities.
René Fonseca, one of the 12 water operators at CBWD, all of whom oppose fluoridation for several reasons, said the notice "lists a lot of questions we have been trying to deal with, and some I wasn't aware of."
Asked whether the letter will be on the agenda for the upcoming quarterly board meeting July 19, Office Manager Jim Allison said he is not sure yet. Asked if Chairman James Yates wanted the notice on the agenda, Allison said Yates told him no. As of last Thursday, Allison had not heard back from the water district's attorney, Dan Bowers.
Fonseca said there has been little communication with the board about how to proceed. Engineering plans for the two buildings that will store and dispense fluoride are in the process of being revised to come more into line with a $763,000 grant amount Delta Dental pledged to pay for startup costs, as opposed to engineering firm McGoodwin, Williams & Yates' original estimate of $1.2 million.
Under the state's Act 197, mandating fluoride for all water districts that serve 5,000 or more customers, startup costs cannot be borne by taxes or the water district's sales revenue.
Fonseca said he has concerns about those revisions if they cut down the building size so that a forklift can't be driven into it.
"We don't want to unload the product by hand," he said. "I know they put a lot of trust in engineers, but errors have been made in the past. I think it's important that those of us who work here every day and will have to handle this product be involved in the process. We know what we need to be safe, and the board assured us in past meetings that our workers' safety is paramount."
CBWD will meet Thursday, July 19, at 10 a.m. at the Freeman-Raney Water Treatment Plant on Hwy. 187, west of Eureka Springs. The meeting is open to the public.
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NOT BREAKING THE LAW IS NOT A CRIME
Stop accepting delivery of fluoridation drugs
Fluoridation laws, state mandated or at the local level, are causing the cities and water operators to break federal FDA laws who will ultimately be liable for purchasing / receiving unapproved drugs and repackaging (diluting) fluoridation drugs
Under the FDCA, every person engaging in the manufacture, preparation, compounding, or processing of drugs in any establishment which he or she owns or operates, is required to immediately register his or her name, places of business, and all such establishments. 21 U.S.C. § 360(c). The terms "manufacture, preparation, propagation, compounding, or processing" include repackaging or otherwise changing the container, wrapper, or labeling of any drug in furtherance of the distribution of the drug from the original place of manufacture to the person who makes the final sale to the ultimate consumer or user. 21 U.S.C. § 360(a)(1).
Is the city registered for repackaging (diluting) fluoridation drugs??
Illigally accepting unapproved drugs for final sale to the ultimate consumer is breaking Federal FDA law.
Under the FDCA, the doing or causing of the following acts, among others, is prohibited:
a. The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any drug that is misbranded (21 U.S.C. § 331(a».
b. The receipt in interstate commerce of any drug that is misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise (21 U.S.C. § 33 1 (c».
c. The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of an unapproved new drug (21 U.S.C. § 331(d».
d. The doing of any act with respect to a drug, if such act is done while the drug is held for sale (whether or not the first sale) after shipment in interstate commerce. which results in the drug being misbranded (21 U.S.C. § 331(k».
This means that nearly everyone involved in fluoridation drugs/chemicals in interstate commerce, such as manufacturers, packers, distributors, and retailers, is responsible for assuring that he or she is not dealing in products that are adulterated or misbranded, even if someone else caused the adulteration or misbranding in the first place. If you introduce it into interstate commerce or receive it in interstate commerce, you are responsible. The law applies to components and packaging as well as to finished products.
The Delta Dental group has plenty of money to entice communities to install fluoridation all over the U.S. What is the source of their money? We do know that the industries which sell this toxic waste fluoride are profiting greatly. They can't dump it in the environment, or they would be arrested. If they sell it and run it through our drinking water, then somehow it becomes legal to dispose of it. This is a rather insane condition.
The best scientific information on fluoridation can be found in Dr. Paul Connett's book, "The Case Against Fluoride," published last year. It contains over 1200 peer reviewed studies and sound scientific reasoning showing the ineffectiveness and dangers to health from fluoride. Provided is scientific evidence to show that it causes cancer, thyroid & pineal gland damage, broken hips from brittle bones, lowered IQ, kidney disease, and other serious health problems.
U.S. cities have been ignoring Food Drug and Cosmetic Act regulations by infusing industrial flurosilicic acid into water supplies for a long time now. Also the Safe Drinkng Water Act prohibits substances from being added other than to sanitize water, and the Water Pollution Control Act Section 101a established by President Kennedy decrees that the natural chemistry of U.S. water supplies must be maintained.
Delta Dental withholds ratepayer premiums, that should have been used to cover more of one's dental costs, and uses the ill-gotten wealth to force cities to infuse industrial fluorosilicic acid diluted hazardous waste into water supplies, in gross violation of the above Federal water laws. The Eureka Springs water operators must stand therir ground in unity and never order the illicit chemicals. Period. With soft water in the North lacking antidote calcium, fluoride is fully assimilated. Fluoride incorporates into atherosclerotic plaque in coronary arteries in cardiovascular disease victims (Yuxin, Nuclear Communications, Jan 2012)and heart attack rates increase signficantly in cities analyzed before and after fluoridation. When do we say enough is enough?
To fluoridepoisoned and richsauerheb. Who regulates drinking water chemicals in the United States? The EPA. Not a single drinking water treatment chemical (hazardous or nor hazardous) requires FDA approval.
Fact:
No US court of last resort has ever upheld fluoridation to be illegal. The most recent court case was in California. It denied the plaintiff's (fluoride opposition) charges, some of which included the legality of fluoridation and that fluoridation was forced medication without informed consent.
Legal rattling is intended to freeze public officials into non-action. Then the opposition goes on the attack of the public at large to instill fear through half-truths, lies, and misquoted or twisted statements from valid scientific studies. You're witnessing both of these strategies here.
Community Water Fluoridation (CWF) is safe, effective, and an inexpensive way to save the public money, pain and suffering of a substantial portion of dental disease they would experience if they didn't drink fluoridated water. Google ADA Fluoridation Facts & CDC Community Water Fluoridation. All credible scientific information & references are there for you to read.
ImaDentist: The real point that everyone is missing is this: do people have a right to say what goes into their bodies or don't they? That is the fundamental question.
If it's a matter of saving public dollars, then let Delta Dental and the ADA provide vouchers for all those poor people who are clamoring for fluoride but simply can't afford to buy a $3 tube of toothpaste that has it in it. It would be more cost-effective all around.
Well JiminyCricket
I'd agree with you that we do have the ability to say what we put into our bodies. I have to breathe exhaust emissions when I ride my bike, but I guess I could wear a filtration mask. Or I could have asked my parents not to immunize me as an infant (if I could have said so) so that I could go through horrific preventable childhood illnesses as an adult. Or worse yet, I could give a childhood illness to my friend who had an organ transplant and kill them with the childhood preventable disease. oops. Sorry buddy.
So my friend, you can chose not to drink fluoridated water. Buy a relative inexpensive RO water filter, less than $200 at Lowes, and filter your water. But even more interesting would be to see how you'll get fluoride out of the foods that you eat. I don't think there is a filter for that.
The point being missed here is that Community Water Fluoridation (CWF) has been around forever. God put fluorine on the earth. It reacts to form the fluoride ion. The same as table salt has Chloride, only this is Fluoride. Thank God that a dentist in Colorado was perceptive enough to see the positive changes of fluoride in his patients back in 1930's. And yes, it was naturally in the water. The goal of adjusting community water to optimal levels is to achieve cavity reductions by people JUST drinking the water. That includes everyone, not just the poor. Add fluoride containing toothpaste and mouth rinses to that and you've got even greater benefits.
CWF is undisputedly safe, effective, and saves money for families. It's a no brainer. Next subject?
FLUORIDE: UNSAFE IN ANY DOSE
Thank you so much to all the safety conscious people out there who have taken the time to read these comments and do you best to see through the deception of the fluoride producing industries.
To the creepy, arrogant, child-health- abuser, who calls himself a dentist, we're shocked. Get your mind off of money, get in touch with your higher power and GET REAL. I speak for motherss, even yours, our job is to protect our children from reckless people like you. Pleae, stay away from our kids, wear your ankle bracelet so we know where you are, and warn parents when you enter their neighborhood, cause there's nobody who is causing more harm to all of our children, and our own health then you are. And you show no remorse.
I'm an Nurse, and the Medical field would never secretly push a known toxic drug on mothers and babies like you're doing right here for everyone to see, when a drug is unsafe we don't continue to prescribe it because it's profitable, we're legally required to give full disclosure, we only prescribe FDA approved drugs & only do so w/Patient Consent. Even GlaxoSmithKline, after 15yrs of knowingly poisoning mother's and babies has been forced to publicly admit their FLUORIDE DRUG PAXIL doubles the risk of SERIOUS HEART DAMAGE AND OTHER BIRTH DEFECTs, and YOU WON'T EVEN warn Moms so we can protect the unborn from your greedy, ARROGANT, failure to offer us a realistic choice....Shame on you, stay Away from our healthy kids, they don't need your type or your filthy fertilizer waste.
1) The FDA won't Approve Fluoride, and Fluoridated water is an ingredient in most foods and beverages so it's safety, mfring, shipping, storage are all directly required to conform to FDA regulation, and any health claims or risks are subject to FDA approval
2) The Majority of EPA Scientists call for and end to water fluoridation
3) The Fluoride Industry won't comply with NSF requirements, the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, or anything else
4) The CDC says Fluoride Toxicity, loss of dental enamel, is present in at least 40% of teens from too much fluoride already, they don't need more,
5) The research proves that the benefits don't go beyond brushing, and even that benefit is not necessary because cavities are caused by sugar & poor nutrition not lack of fertilizer fluoride which doesn't exist in nature or humans, nor is necessary to life at all
6) Fluoride Drugs like GlaxoSmithKline's PAXIL have a long list of serious birth defects of the heart, lungs, brain and spinal cord, and they push this on your kids and pregnant women, without remorse, wow that's cold!
7) It's own Material Safety Data Sheet, easily found online, says just 2 ounces of its concentrated form is lethal to an adult
8) It's exposure to young children causes permanent loss of dental enamel, which leaves the tooth unprotected, and prone to decay which erases the already meager benefit of brushing with it, but it does benefit dentists, lets face it FLUORIDE HASN'T STOPPED CAVITIES, INFACT AREAS THAT FLUORIDATE HAVE JUST AS MANY DESPITE higher soceo-economic status.
9) Most dentists are OK giving this drug to a kids, even though a child died in a dentists chair after swallowing a small amount in New York,
10) God may have created fluorine/fluoride but that doesn't mean it should be in water or your kids,
11) Some of this junk is now coming from China, that's right we buy their waste, put it in our water, and the this guy covers for them, that doesn't sound safe
12) It's damaging effects on a fetus, the elderly, osteoporosis, hip/bone fractures, arthritis, kidney and thyroid are well established to everyone, except, you guessed it, some pushy dentists and smug PR companies representing the rich aluminum and fertilizer interests who profit on your pain, and ridicule simple folks trying to protect their kids
Please consider the value of healthy children to our society, the simple fact that cavities ( and most other diseases affecting kids) can be prevented with improved nutrition and the reduction of the real cause of tooth decay: Sugar. All we're asking is that if you believe you need fluoride, to use a rinse, a tablet, toothpaste, dentist treatment and give toothpaste free to the needy and let them decide if they want fluoride in it or not. That would reduce cavities, end self-inflicted fluorosis, and could easily be paid for by saving the money wasted down the drain on water fluoridation, because that's where 99.5% of the fluoride goes, down the drain, in a waste of tax payer money and health.
We're mainstream Americans and this industry has crossed the line into pushing dangerous drugs on pregnant mothers, nursing moms, babies, and all women who just want to have healthy children. All women reject profits over the health of our children, AND as soon as MORE WOMEN GET BEYOND THE FLUORIDE COVER-UP, THIS WILL COME TO AN END VERY QUICKLY.
FLUORIDE: UNSAFE IN ANY DOSE,
End of Story
Pretty amazing these anti-fluoride, anti-oral health posts.
The simple fact is that a suit like this has NEVER prevailed in any state.
Clearly fluoride can be:
A natural mineral
A mineral nutrient
A water additive
An over the counter medication
A prescription medication
An industrial chemical
An industrial pollutant
A fumigant
A rat poison
The willful refusal to acknowledge these distinctions is an important element in anti-fluoridation propaganda. Use of an imagined FDA drug regulation or some imagined liability when none exists are propaganda variations on a theme.
World science is a very open system. Mistakes are aggressively corrected. The reason that there is such widespread agreement among mainstream public health experts is because the peer-reviewed literature shows fluoridation safe, effective and inexpensive.
A huge Louisiana study showed that 2/3rd of the operations for terrible cavities in young kids and 50% of their dental bills were avoided with fluoridation.
see: Water Fluoridation and Costs of Medicaid Treatment for Dental Decay -- Louisiana, 1995-1996. MMMW, 9/03/1999 48(34);753-757
For the sake of community oral health, especially the children's, oOne can only hope that the expert opinion will prevail here.
Great Post Picker lets make sure the good folks get the EXPERT HEALTH OPINION THAT CAN ONLY BE FOUND AT:
FLLUORIDEALERT.ORG
Go ahead and see what all the people who want your baby to suffer don't want you to find out. That several industries have banded together to be sure your baby and your family will pay with their health so that an: OUTDATED, INEFFECTIVE, AND RECKLESSLY DAGEROUS PRACTICE can continue with no basis in Science or Reality. Please take your baby poison, that now is being IMPORTED FROM CHINA, AND TRY TO CON SOME OTHER COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE'RE SICK OF OUT-OF-TOWN MONEY PAYING FOR YOUR LIES.....DISPOSE OF YOUR TOXIC WASTE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE BY PAYING TO LEGALLY DUMP IT IN A TOXIC WASTE SITE, NOT MY FAMILY
THANK YOU
FLUORIDEALERT.ORG
Fluoride in the form of GlaxoSmithKline's Psychotic drug PAXIL have been proven to cause birth defects, and now they want to put that in the water?
Water fluoridation has been shown to damage every part of the body, including teeth, with the Thyroid, Kidneys, Liver, Bones and Brain most adversely affected. When fluoridated countries, states, or cities are compared there is no reduction in cavities compared to those that don't fluoridate. So for no benefit, that can't already be achieved with toothpaste, families seeking to have a child are subjecting that child to the following risks, as well as risking their own health....It's just not worth it. Use your toothpaste, get your teeth cleaned, but there's no need to subject anyone to the following birth defect risks, all of which at least double when women take fluoride drugs while pregnant:
FLUORIDE RELATED Birth Defects Include:
Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)
Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD THAT MEANS A HOLE IN YOUR BABIES HEART)
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)
Transposition of Great Arteries (TGA)
Craniosynostosis
Omphalocele
Spina Bifida
Club Foot
Bilateral Cleft Lip
Cleft Palate
Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension (PPHN)
Pulmonary Stenosis
Hypospadias
Epispadias
Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)
Coartaction of the Aorta
Bicuspid Aortic Valve
Neural Tube Defect
Ebstein's Anomaly
Aortic Stenosis
Tethered Spinal Cord
Hypoplastic Heart Syndrome
Gastrointestinal Malformations (GI Tract)
Cranial Birth Defects
Cardiovascular Malformations
Abdominal Birth Defects
Limb Defects
NOT A NECESSARY MINERAL, NOT EFFECTIVE AT REDUCING CAVITIES, NOT SAFE....
THE OPTIMAL DOSE OF FLUORIDE FOR YOUR KIDS IS ZERO, ASK FOR PROOF, NOT OPINION FROM YOUR LEADERS
Arm yourself with the truth from FLUORIDEALERT.ORG and fight this attack on mothers and babies in Arkansas