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Basic Information about Fluoride in Drinking Water
http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw000/contaminants/basicinformation/fluoride.html
What are fluoride's health effects?
Some people who drink water containing fluoride well
in excess of the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for
many years could get bone disease (including pain
and tenderness of the bones); children may get
mottled teeth.
This health effects
language is not intended to catalog all possible
health effects for fluoride. Rather, it is intended
to inform consumers of some of the possible health
effects associated with fluoride in drinking water
when the rule was finalized.
How is fluoride
regulated?
In 1974, Congress passed the Safe Drinking Water
Act. This law requires EPA to determine safe levels
of contaminants in drinking water which do or may
cause health problems. These non-enforceable health
goals, based solely on possible health risks and
exposure over a lifetime, are called maximum
contaminant level goals (MCLG). Contaminants are any
physical, chemical, biological or radiological
substances or matter in water.
* The MCLG for fluoride
is 4 mg/L or 4 ppm. EPA has set this level of
protection based on the best available science to
prevent potential health problems.
What are EPA's drinking
water regulations for fluoride?
EPA has set an enforceable regulation for fluoride,
called a maximum contaminant level (MCL), at 4 mg/L
or 4 ppm. MCLs are set as close to the health goals
as possible, considering cost, benefits and the
ability of public water systems to detect and remove
contaminants using suitable treatment technologies.
In this case, the MCL equals the MCLG, because
analytical methods or treatment technology do not
pose any limitation.
EPA has also set a
secondary standard (SMCL) for fluoride at 2 mg/L or
2 ppm. Secondary standards are non-enforceable
guidelines regulating contaminants that may cause
cosmetic effects (such as skin or tooth
discoloration) or aesthetic effects (such as taste,
odor, or color) in drinking water. EPA recommends
secondary standards to water systems but does not
require systems to comply. However, states may
choose to adopt them as enforceable standards. Tooth
discoloration and/or pitting is caused by excess
fluoride exposures during the formative period prior
to eruption of the teeth in children. The secondary
standard of 2.0 mg/L is intended as a guideline for
an upper boundary level in areas which have high
levels of naturally occurring fluoride. It is not
intended as a substitute for the lower
concentrations (0.7 to 1.2 mg/L) which have been
recommended for systems which add fluoride to their
water. The level of the SMCL was set based upon a
balancing of the beneficial effects of protection
from tooth decay and the undesirable effects of
excessive exposures leading to discoloration
This
information was taken on 1/17/10
You can visit the EPA site for the latest updates they may have made to this information
* The EPA due to the flood of information now
surfacing on fluoride has reduced the recommended
amount of fluoride that water supply companies put
in water. Use this test kit to check to see if your
water company is in compliance. We feel there should
be no added fluoride to drinking water.
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Notice
These Other Reports
On Fluoride Below
VIDEO: Alex Jones Interviews Dr. Neil Carman on Water
Fluoridation This is a very
compelling interview with Dr. Neil carman giving some
eye popping details of fluoride. You must see this.
Click
here to view this interview.
Reuters: Another Study Links Fluoride to Bone Cancer
This news report shows that
blood
fluoride levels were significantly higher in
patients with osteosarcoma than in control groups,
according to research published in Biological Trace
Element Research (April 2009). Osteosarcoma, a rare
bone cancer, occurs mostly in children and young
adults. To read the full article click
here.
Human and animal cancer evidence prompts review of
fluoride
This article reports that California EPA committee
designates fluoride as priority for review for
public warnings about risk of cancer to consumers
over the objections of the powerful lobbyists for the
American Dental Association and the Personal Care
Products Council who oppose further evaluation of
fluoride as cancer-causing.
Click
here to read the full article
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