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THE LEGALITY OF FLUORIDATION

I have been seriously interested in fluoridation for over 52 years. Before that, I believed fluoride was an essential nutrient for health as it is with zinc, chromium and manganese and that its deficiency was a major factor in tooth decay. However, during my studies in naturopathy, I acquired knowledge on the toxicity of toxic metals such as lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium and nickel and that none of them had a safe dose for the health of the cell.

When I read that fluoride can cause dental fluorosis and bone fluorosis, I tried to understand how a so-called "nutrient" could cause such harmful effects and by what mechanism. I came to realize that no human physiological function depends on fluoride and, worse still, that fluoride is an enzyme poison like lead or arsenic; therefore fluoride cannot be an essential nutrient for health.

Dental fluorosis is the first sign of fluoride's toxic effect on enzymes active in the formation of tooth enamel. Health authorities acknowledge that fluoridation can lead to a certain rate of dental fluorosis. But, I could not understand the scientific logic of distribution by drinking water, because it is impossible to control the daily dose.

Fluoride is already found in good quantities in food. The hypothesis that tooth decay could be caused by fluoride deficiency made no sense to me. From there, I thought to myself that, by doing a deep review of the science in the field of fluoride, it would be easy to convince the health authorities that fluoridation was a serious scientific error. They haven't changed their position yet, but I have had the chance during all these years to meet a large number of eminent scientists with whom I have collaborated and extraordinary people who got involved. This enabled us to end fluoridation in virtually all cities in Quebec.

This brings me to today's topic: the legality of fluoridation. Health authorities claim to have the right to add a nutrient to foods to counter a nutritional deficiency that causes endemic disease in a population, such as the addition of iodine to salt, or vitamin D to milk. However, there is a serious flaw in the comparison between water fluoridation and food fortification, and that is the legal classification of chemicals used in fluoridation.

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE NATURE OF THE CHEMICALS IN FLUORIDATION?

Today, these three products are made primarily from fluoroapatite using products captured by the chimneys of pollution control systems of chemical phosphate fertilizer plants. Therefore, the clear nature of fluoridation chemicals is waste products from phosphate fertilizer production in an industrial environment, with no control over sanitary conditions.

Strangely, the legal classification of the fluoridation chemicals used for water fluoridation has rarely been raised by health authorities, whether federal or provincial. However, these legal aspects are crucial. Here are the potential legal classifications of fluoridation chemicals:

1.  Medicine
2.  Natural health products
3.  Sources of a mineral for food fortification
4.  Food
5.  Food additives
6.  Water treatment chemicals
7.  Toxic and hazardous products

Fluoridation has a therapeutic goal of preventing dental caries, but the legal classification of fluoridation products assigned by Health Canada and accepted by Quebec Public Health has nothing to do with the prevention of disease or an intake of a nutrient. Yet fluoridation is presented as an important public health measure in the prevention of tooth decay.

Fluoridation is the addition of a chemical containing fluoride, with the aim of treatment against a disease (dental caries) by modifying the composition of tooth enamel to make it more resistant to caries. Therefore, the products used to fluoridate need to be legally classified in order to use them for this obviously therapeutic purpose. Only two classifications allow products to have a therapeutic purpose: drugs and natural health products.

Under the Food and Drugs Act, only Health Canada has the constitutional right to regulate substances with therapeutic benefits. The Act classifies two of the possible fluoridation agents as follows:

Drug

Includes any substance or mixture of substances manufactured, sold or represented for use in:

1. The diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of a disease, disorder or abnormal physical state, or its symptoms, in human beings or animals,
2. Restoring, correcting or modifying organic functions in human beings or animals, or
3. Disinfection in premises in which food is manufactured, prepared or kept.

Food

Includes any article manufactured, sold or represented for use as food or drink for human beings, chewing gum, and any ingredient that may be mixed with food for any purpose whatsoever.

These definitions of the Food and Drugs Act will help to clarify two of the possible classifications of the fluoridation agent. However, in Petition 299, 299B and 299C, addressed to Health Canada under the Environment Commissioner of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, Health Canada claimed that they did not have any jurisdiction over fluoridation chemicals because they were only water treatment chemicals. So, by eliminating the legal classifications above: Medicines, Natural health products, Sources of a mineral for food fortification, Food and Food additives...what is left as classifications?

Water Treatment Chemicals and Toxic and hazardous products! 

What then are the legal and ethical implications of these two legal classifications?  It really raises serious legal issues!  Can you see that?  If classified as a "water treatment chemical", we are really "treating humans" NOT water; or if classified as a "toxic and hazardous product", why are we adding it to drinking water?

It is illegal to add a drug to drinking water; as it is illegal to make a therapeutic allegation to a nutrient used for food fortification; as it is illegal to use a water treatment chemical to treat a population or even an individual.  There are at least 10 legal articles in the Food and Drugs Act for which fluoridation is in contravention.  We will deepen the legality of fluoridation in a future newsletter.

FLUORIDE FACT

Fluoridation chemicals are made primarily from products captured by the chimneys of pollution control systems of chemical phosphate fertilizer plants from fluoroapatite.  In other words: the waste products from phosphate fertilizer production in an industrial environment.  Fluoride also is NOT an essential nutrient for health.

HOW CAN YOU HELP TODAY?

As misinformation is rampant with no help from the media, in the next two weeks, tell 10 people the above fluroide fact and ask them to tell 10...etc. and feel free to point them to fluoridefreecanada.ca if they want more facts.

Sincerely,

Dr. James Winter, Ph.D.

Fluoride Free Canada

Newsletter Director

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