Daily Echo - Fluoride's coming at us from all directions

Fluoride's coming at us from all directions
THE Government's proposed addition of folic acid to all bread has been abandoned because there would be no way to check the total daily intake.
So what about the fluorides, now coming at us from all directions, from womb to tomb?
The Government's recommended Medical Research Report on fluori-dation says 'Fluoride crosses the placenta and is incorporated into the developing conceptus... could plausibly be teratogenic' (ie. can cause malformation).
That would be only a part of the chemical load children are now inheriting through the 300 quarts of blood pumped through them every day in their last month in the womb. A recent US Environmental Working Group study found an average of 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants in umbilical cord blood from babies born in 2004. The industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides included eight perfluoro- chemicals, used as stain and oil repellents, in fast food packaging, clothes, textiles, carpets, etc, including the Teflon and Scotchguard
chemical, PFOA, recently categorised as a likely human carcinogen by the EPAs advisory board.
Samples taken from almost 4,000 adults between 1999 and 2006, reports the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found those with the highest 25 per cent of PFOA and PFOS were more than twice as likely to have thyroid disease than individuals with the lowest 50 per cent.
Professor Galloway of Exeter University, said 'Our results highlight a real need for further research into the health effect of low level exposure to environmental chemicals like PFOA that are ubiquitous in the environment and in peoples' homes'.
There are now 17 pages of fluoride pesticides on the PSD lists. Fluoride is now a corn fumigant.
And the Government wants to add it to our drinking and bath water. Just how ubiquitous can it get?
MJ REICHUN, Andover.