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UK Against Fluoridation

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

F.A/N. Newsletter

Virginia residents and professionals, your help is needed!  
We have just learned that the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors is considering an end to the fluoridation of the public drinking water of over 100,000 citizens.  The decision will also impact the city of Fredericksburg, which gets its water from Spotsylvania’s Motts Run Water Treatment Plant.
The Board of Supervisors will be hosting pro-fluoridation presentations from the dental industry and their lobbyists.  However, at the beginning of the meeting (at 6:02pm) there is a public comment period, where each participant will get at least 3-minutes to speak in favor of ENDING FLUORIDATION. 
If you can attend this important meeting to express your opposition to fluoridation, please do so.  The Board of Supervisors appears to be leaning in favor of ending the practice, but they want to hear from professionals, parents and local consumers:   
What: Fluoridation Hearing
When: Tuesday, January 22, 2018 at 6:00 pm
Where: 9104 Courthouse Road, Spotsylvania, VA 22553
Agenda for meeting: https://spotsylvania.novusagenda.com/agendapublic/
If you cannot personally attend the meeting, please email you testimony to the board members:
Make sure to start off with “I support the proposal to end fluoridation.”  Please keep your emails polite and focused on the scientific and ethical arguments against fluoridation (see example talking points below). 
While county supervisors need to hear from all area residents, they especially need to hear from Virginia medical, scientific, legal, and engineering professionals.  Your opposition, expert advice, and testimony could easily mean the difference between success and failure.   
They also need to hear from those who have been negatively impacted by fluoride.  Our government has admitted that they’ve overexposed at least 57% of adolescents to fluoride, resulting in dental fluorosis and likely a host of other ailments.  Studies have also shown that fluoridation is likely linked to higher rates of ADHD, hypothyroidism, and osteoarthritis.  If you or your family have felt the impact of overexposure to fluoride, then it’s crucial that officials hear your story since the dental-lobby claims that there are no victims of fluoride.

Please send your emails today so we can end fluoridation in Spotsylvania County.  It’s your health, your water, your tax dollars, and ought to be your choice.
When contacting the board of supervisors, here are some points we suggest making:
-A new study linked fluoride exposure in utero to lower IQ in kids.
-Increasing fluoride levels will increase overexposure and dental fluorosis.
-Fluoride chemicals have been shown to increase lead levels in drinking water.
-Over 100 animal experiments and 50 human studies link fluoride consumption to a decrease in IQ, with fluoride now labeled a developmental neurotoxicant.
-A recent study has linked fluoridation to increases in ADHD.
-A recent study has linked fluoridation to increases in hypothyroidism.
-A Cochrane Group review found no quality research proving benefit from fluoridation but did find a clear connection to fluorosis.
-Over 235 communities have rejected fluoridation since 2010. 
Here is additional information and talking points:

Sincerely,
Stuart Cooper
Campaign Director
Fluoride Action Network
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