"Fluoridation" Overfeeds and MCL's

As of March 22, 2005, everything changed. The NAS Report states," After reviewing the collective evidence on adverse health effects associated with fluoride, our committee concluded unanimously that EPA should lower the maximum contaminant level goal for fluoride."

The EPA Union, representing the scientists, researchers and other professionals, opposes the practice stating" Our members review of evidence over the past eleven years, including animal and human epidemiology studies, indicate a causal link between fluoride/fluoridation and cancer, genetic damage, neurological impairment, and bone pathology. Of particular concern are recent epidemiology studies linking fluoride exposures to lower I.Q. in children. As professionals who are charged with assessing the safety of drinking water, we conclude that the health and welfare of the public are not served by the addition of ths substance to the public water supply."

The need for a Code of Ethics at EPA has been emphasized time after time since the Agency began in 1970. This need became critical when it published the Fluoride in Drinking Water Standard in 1985. An investigation by the EPA Union revealed that scientific support documents for the health-based standard[ of fluoride MCLs] were crafted to support a long-standing public health policy. Objective scientific methods of data collection and analysis were avoided in favor of presenting information that agreed with current policy.

RMCLs [changed to MCL goals in 1986] "...are non-enforceable health goals which are to be set at levels which would result in no known or anticipated adverse effects and which allow an adequate margin of safety." [emphasis added]