Fluoride lobbyists claim that ingesting fluoride is safe and that no credible evidence exists to show that it is harmful.  They also admit that the actual product, hydrofluorosilicic acid, we’re ingesting has never undergone safety tests.  No tests to prove safety and no credible evidence to show harm (if you don’t look, you can’t see!).  This kind of double-speak is quite common in the fluoride lobbying literature.

However, the law is clear – chemicals added to our water supply MUST meet standards and those standards include toxicological testing.  So decades old public policy and endorsements aside, would the claim that ingesting hydrofluorosilicic acid is safe, hold up in a court of law?  This is the question Windsor, Tecumseh and Lasalle councillors need to ask themselves when they finally decide yay or nay for continuing to mass medicate residents without their informed consent.

Who is liable?

The Province of Ontario has provided municipal councillors with a document titled Taking Care of Your Drinking Water: A Guide for Members of Municipal Councils. This guide details how on January 1, 2013 a Standard of Care comes into effect that puts an unprecedented duty of care on municipal councillors.  The guide shows an ‘ideal water treatment model’ and no fluoridation step is shown.  This guide states: “It’s Your Duty. The Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002, includes a statutory standard of care for individuals who have oversight responsibilities for municipal drinking water systems that can extend to municipal councillors as of January 1, 2013. There are legal consequences for negligence, including possible fines or imprisonment.”

With a warning like that coming from the Province, councillors must be fully certain that the product they’ve chosen to mass medicate their constituents with is, indeed, safe and effective, as the fluoride proponents claim.  Because those fluoride lobbyists will not shield municipalities from legal liability.

Fluoride Free Windsor members have been doing their best to arm councillors with credible fluoridation information, including providing them with the Water Fluoridation Expert list, so councillors will have several professionals to turn to for the truth about the marketing claims that fluoride is safe and effective.  These experts can and will help councillors make informed decisions that are protective of all constituents and adhere to environmental legislation.

No Means No

Following is a presentation titled NO MEANS NO that very appropriately highlights the fraudulent NSF certification that municipal governments are relying on as the safety standard for hydrofluorosilicic acid.  Thank you to Carole Clinch of Citizens for Safe Water.

NSF Certification is Fraudulent