FAN Bulletin 1074

May 21, 2009

GOOD NEWS:

MAY 20: GREAT LAKES UNITED pass resolution that supports the end of water fluoridation

Great Lakes United is an international coalition dedicated to preserving and restoring the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River ecosystem. Great Lakes United is made up of member organizations representing environmentalists, conservationists, hunters and anglers, labor unions, community groups, and citizens of the United States, Canada, and First Nations and Tribes.

Carole Clinch (caclinch@gmail.com), Research Coordinator for People for Safe Drinking Water (Ontario, Canada), submitted a resolution to Great Lakes United for the members to vote. The results were announced May 20, 2009 during an electronic, annual general meeting.

The resolution (at http://fluoridealert.org/glu.resolution.passed.5-20-09.pdf ) states:

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United supports the United States Environmental Protection Agency unions (US EPA Unions), Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) statements and professionals world-wide that the practice of artificial drinking water fluoridation be terminated.

This resolution passed with a vote:
16 for the resolution
10 against the resolution
62% voted in favor of the resolution.

53% of GLU members participated in the online voting.
The results are available at http://www.glu.org/meeting09

Thanks to Carole for her continued outstanding efforts as one of Ontario’s dynamic fluoridation activists.

GOOD WEBSITE: OpenSecrets.org on ADA’s Congressional contributions for 2008

SEE the list of US Congressional representatives who received contributions from the American Dental Association (ADA) in 2008 which totaled $1,940,490 at http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000105&type=P&cycle=2008&sort=A&state=CA . (Thanks to Danny Gottleib for finding this.)

SEE also ADA’s May 13 press release thanking Congressman Mike Simpson (R-ID) for sponsoring — and the House of Representatives for passing — a resolution on May 12, 2009, congratulating the ADA on its 150th anniversary. Simpson received $10,250 from the ADA in 2008 (from OpenSecrets.org) at http://www2.fluoridealert.org/Alert/United-States/National/Congressional-Resolution-Congratulating-the-ADA-for-its-150-Years-of-Service

IMPORTANT CALIFORNIA MEETING TO ATTEND:

Sacramento, California, on Friday, May 29

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) sent a list of 38 chemicals for prioritization to the Prop 65 Carcinogenicity Identification Committee (CIC). Included in the list is “fluoride and its salts” (see http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/CRNR_notices/state_listing/prioritization_notices/prior030509.html ). A 60-day public comment period on the chemicals ended on May 5. On May 29, the first public meeting will take place to discuss the prioritization and the public will be allowed to make comments.

The meeting will start at 10am-until all business is conducted or 5 pm, in the

Sierra Hearing Room
California Environmental Protection Agency
1001 I Street, Sacramento

Tentative agenda at http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/public_meetings/cicagenda051509.html

ONLY 4 of the 38 chemicals will be selected for review by CIC at this time and because of that, this meeting is very important as the CIC will provide OEHHA with advice on the prioritization of these chemicals. Based on the CIC’s advice, OEHHA will select chemicals for preparation of Hazard Identification Materials. These materials will be used by the CIC at future meetings to decide the chemicals to add to the Proposition 65 list. No listing decisions will be made concerning these chemicals at the May 29 meeting. FAN’s Chris Neurath (cneurath@AmericanHealthStudies.org) will attend.

See this FAN website for fluoride-related California Prop 65 documents and updates.

From the Team at Fluoride Action Network.