The Safe Drinking Water Act Prohibits Fluoridation throughout the Country…
Continuing on the subject of drinking water fluoridation:
Readers, fluoride is listed as a contaminant!
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Fluoride is considered an environmental contaminant… yet
Public Health officials want us to believe that when it is added
to the municipal drinking water, it miraculously changes
into a beneficial nutrient good for your teeth and your health.
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We would like to know: why didn’t Arkansas have a transparency law for determining the hazardous metal content of fluoride additives?
We would also like to know how much arsenic and lead is actually being dumped into our public drinking water during fluoridation.
Sodium fluoride should NOT be used for potable water treatments. We can no longer turn a blind eye to water contamination caused by fluoride.
Legislators, we would especially like draw your attention to this: Are you aware that the US Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) prohibits adding fluoride to our tap water?
Here’s HOW (also click here for the 2-page PDF):
The US Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
Prohibits Adding Fluoride to Our Tap Water
“SDWA applies to every public water system in the United States…
The most direct oversight of water systems is conducted by state drinking water programs.
States can apply to US EPA for ‘primacy,’ the authority to implement SDWA within their jurisdictions,
if they can show that they will adopt standards at least as stringent as US EPA’s and make sure
water systems meet these standards.” – “Understanding the Safe Drinking Water Act” (EPA 2004)
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Safe Drinking Water Act
(Enacted December 20, 2019)
Coverage: Section 1411 (p. 4)
“National primary drinking water regulations…
shall apply to each public water system in each State.”
Standards: Section 1412(b)(11) (p. 15)
“No national primary drinking water regulation may require the
addition of any substance for preventive health care purposes.”
State Primary Enforcement Responsibility: Section 1413(a)(1) (p. 22)
“A State has primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems
during any period for which the Administrator determines… that such state
has adopted drinking water regulations that are no less stringent
than the national primary drinking water regulations” under Section 1412(b).
Adding “any substance for preventive health care purposes”
is “less stringent” than the national primary drinking water regulation,
therefore this common-sense standard prohibits adding to drinking water:
Vitamin D to prevent rickets • Folic acid to prevent birth defects
Lithium to prevent depression • Vaccines to prevent viral infections
It also prohibits every public water system from adding fluoride for “preventive health care purposes” –
the CDC’s stated purpose for the “fluoridation of drinking water.”
An EPA policy, however, allows states to fluoridate their water systems.
But policies do not override Safe Drinking Water Act regulations.
John D. MacArthur • macjohnd@gmail.com • SDWA Prohibits Adding Fluoride to Our Tap Water •
16 May 2024 • p.1/2
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EPA Policies are Not Legally Binding Requirements
- Oversight of the Safe Drinking Water Act (2000)
“What is EPA’s official policy on the fluoridation of drinking water?”
Response. “As you no doubt are aware, the Safe Drinking Water Act prohibits EPA from requiring or supporting the addition of any substance (including fluoride) to drinking water for preventive health care purposes. Those decisions are made on a State or local basis and do not directly involve EPA.”
– Robert Perciasepe, Assistant Administrator of the Office of Water (p. 112, Question 2) - EPA Guidance; Administrative Procedures for Issuance and Public Petitions (2020)
“Guidance document means an Agency statement… that sets forth a policy on statutory, regulatory, or technical issue, or an interpretation of a statute or regulation.” (Definitions, p. 35)
“The EPA issues non-binding guidance… Guidance documents come in a variety of formats, including interpretive memoranda, policy statements, manuals, bulletins, advisories, and more.” (p. 9, footnote 8)
“The EPA proposed new procedures for developing and issuing guidance documents… Implementing these procedures will lead to enhanced transparency and help to ensure that guidance documents are not improperly treated as legally binding requirements by the EPA or by the regulated community.” (p. 8)
“In regard to the use of fluosilicic acid as a source of fluoride for fluoridation,
this Agency regards such use as an ideal environmental solution to a long-standing problem.
By recovering by-product fluosilicic acid from fertilizer manufacturing, water and air pollution are minimized, and water utilities have a low-cost source of fluoride available them.”
– Rebecca Hammer (1983) – EPA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water
No doubt the million dollars per day benefit to the phosphate fertilizer industry
is used to “encourage” this policy.
John D. MacArthur • macjohnd@gmail.com • SDWA Prohibits Adding Fluoride to Our Tap Water •
16 May 2024 • p.2/2
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In closing, fluoridation
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is not a policy that should ever be decided by a vote and
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should never have been mandated by the state.
Stay tuned!! More to come on this…
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