Special Section
Fluorides and the Environment

Contents:

• Editorial: Why Fluoride Is An Environmental Issue
  by Gar Smith, Editor, Earth Island Journal

• Clear and Present Danger
  by Bob Woffinden, London Guardian

• Fluoridation and Hip Fractures
  by John R. Lee, MD

• The Impact of Fluoridation on Salmon in the Northwest US and British Columbia
  by Richard G. Foulkes and Anne C. Anderson, RPN

• EPA Whistleblowers on Fluoride
  by William L. Marcus, Ph.D and Robert Carton, Ph.D

• Fluoride Risk in Baby Food
  American Dental Associatio

• Fluoride: The Phosphate Connection
  by George C. Glasser

• The Effects of Fluorides on Plants
  by Alan Davison and Leonard Weinstein

• Resources: Organizations, Websites, Books, Fluoride-free Toothpaste

This special section of Earth Island Journal was prepared to coincide with the 22nd meeting of the International Society for Fluoride Research on August 24-27 in Bellingham, Washington. For information on the conference, contact Prof. Ming-Ho Yu. Center for Environmental Science, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9181, (360) 650-3676, fax: (360) 650-7284.

Funding for this report was made possible through the generosity of the Phillips E. Patton Charitable Foundation.

Earth Island Journal, the quarterly publication of the nonprofit Earth Island Institute, is the winner of eight Project Censored Awards and the 1997 Alternative Press Award for "Best Scientific and Environmental Reporting."

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"Our members' review of the body of evidence over the last 11 years, including animal and human epidemiology studies, indicates a causal link between fluoride/fluoridation and cancer, genetic damage, neurological impairment and bone pathology… the health and welfare of the public is not served by the addition of this substance (fluoride) to the public water supply… for which there is virtually no evidence of significant benefits… and substantial evidence of harm."
-- National Federation of Federal Employees Union (Local 2050), Washington, DC, July 1997