Flouridation Action Update

From: Karen Eberly kareneberly@hotmail.com
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 2:17 PM

Fluoridation Action Update, 9/14/09

Since my last email announcing the meeting of 9/10/09 some interesting developments have occurred.

* I was interviewed on WUFT radio Wed. and Thurs., 9/9/09 and 9/10/09, telling about the industrial waste product added to our water
supply and how it isn't tested. This issue raised hackles (it should!) and led to a call from the CDC. Then GRU asked for equal time
to respond, so today I heard their interview with Tony Cunningham, who said the product is thoroughly tested (not true - see below)
and evaded the questions about where it comes from (phosphate fertilizer plants), and added that at the next RUC meeting, (maybe
Oct.8) NO FURTHER COMMENTS ON THIS ISSUE WILL BE PERMITTED BY CITIZENS!

* At the meeting on 9/10/09 with the Regional Utilities Committee (RUC) of the Gvlle city commission, we managed to present lots of
fluoride information with references to studies to back it up. We had about 20 people there to testify against fluoridation on the
grounds it is not safe, effective, ethical, or perhaps even legal. On the status quo side were the RUC (Mayor Hanrahan, Chair Lauren
Poe, and Craig Lowe), several GRU people, some public health people, and four dentists, who all said how wonderful fluoridation is
and that there is 60 years of research showing that, along with their anecdotal observations, but didn't cite one single study. They
also kowtowed to CDC spokesman Kip Duchon who was speaking on conference phone.

* I was told that the minutes of this meeting are now being summarized by GRU and then will be censored (ooops, I mean "edited") by
a committee before being posted on the city site: www.cityofgainesville.org

* Because the meeting was moved to the big auditorium at the last minute, it was videotaped and I requested a copy. They may be
"editing" this also --- I will find out when I get it. Anyone can request a copy at city hall or through GRU; it may cost $1-3 for
the DVD.

They generally insulted our intelligence and attacked my info. as "outdated" because some of it was compiled in 2006, while they
were referring indirectly to questionable studies of the 50s and 60s. We could tell that the committee had its mind made up before
we opened our mouths, and it became clear they had previously met with the dentists/public health people and been told to push the
party line. All the agencies that are supposed to protect us are pushing fluoridation (under corporate and political pressure to do
so): the FDA, the CDC, and the EPA. GRU is following orders.

The one issue that stood out to me is the VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE OF EXISTENCE OF SAFETY TESTING ON THE "PRODUCT" THEY ADD TO GVLLE
WATER. The product (actually classified as "hazardous waste" before cities are willing to buy it) is a fluoride compound called
hydrofluosilicic acid (H2SiF6), obtained from phosphate fertilizer plants as a waste product. I have in writing from GRU last month,
and I quote: "To our knowledge there is not an individual toxicological study performed on hydrofluosilicic acid." End quote. Legal
proof. I also have a letter from the EPA saying as of 2000 they knew of no studies either.

The "experts" tried to evade this issue by citing the testing done on the CONTAMINANTS in the product: arsenic, mercury, lead, etc.,
which they claim are in such small amounts they are safe. However, testing on the contaminants is NOT EQUIVALENT to testing on the
compound itself. Thus, the fact remains that we are being forced to drink an industrial hazardous waste product that has no safety
testing.

ATTACHMENTS:
1- a printable notice about what further actions you can take at this time.

2- my response on the lack of testing of hydrofluosilicic acid that I submitted today to the official records of the 9/10/09
meeting.

Thanks for all you do,
Karen Eberly