EPA admits millions likely to be harmed by fluoridation EPA Response to US House Committee on Science US Environmental Protection Agency reveals that tens of millions of Americans may be at risk from fluoridated drinking water. This work has just begun, and will initially focus on the elderly, children and pregnant women. It will later be expanded to cover other at-risk populations. Existing data indicate that subsets of the population may be unusually susceptible to the effects of fluoride and its compounds. These populations include the elderly, people with deficiencies of calcium, magnesium and vitamin C, and people with cardiovascular and kidney problems . . .
Poor nutrition increases the incidence and severity of dental fluorosis and skeletal fluorosis.
In the response to congressman Ken Calvert, the EPA also concedes that fluorosilicic acid and fluorosilicates, the preferred chemicals used to fluoridate drinking water are captured pollution waste products from phosphate fertilizer industry. No safety testing has ever been done with the products. The addition of fluoride substances to the drinking water for the purpose of water fluoridation are regulated by EPA as contaminants. It is important to note that the population values in Table 1 are numbers of individuals that fall in each category. There are no data to suggest that these individuals as a group are, or would be, sensitive to fluoride at the levels found in the environment.