Is Fluoride A Nutrient?
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  On countless internet sites, public health pamphlets and other pro-fluoridation literature, fluoride is proclaimed as the “wonder nutrient”, the “deficiency” symptom being increased dental caries (1). It boggles the mind that a cumulative toxin and toxic waste product can be described a “nutrient”. Nevertheless, such claims are repeatedly made by pro-fluoridationists (2).

 On March 16, 1979, the FDA deleted paragraphs 105.3(c) and 105.85(d)(4) of Federal Register documents which had classified fluorine, among other substances, as “essential” or “probably essential”. Since that time, nowhere in the Federal Regulations is fluoride classified as “essential” or “probably essential”. These deletions were the immediate result of 1978 Court deliberations(3). No essential function for fluoride has ever been proven in humans(4,5,6,7,8).

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1) Examples:

http://ificinfo.health.org/insight/septoct97/flouride.htm

http://www.wvda.org/nutrient/fluoride.html

2) Barrett S, Rovin S (Eds) - "The Tooth Robbers: a Pro-Fluoridation Handbook" George F Stickley Co, Philadelphia pp 44-65 (1980)

3) Federal Register, 3/16/79, page 16006

4) Federal Register: December 28, 1995 (Volume 60, Number 249)] Rules and Regulations , Page 67163-67175 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration, 21 CFR Part 101 Docket No. 90N-0134, RIN 0910-AA19

5)The Report of the Department of Health and Social Subjects, No. 41, Dietary Reference Values, Chapter 36 on fluoride (HMSO 1996). 

• “No essential function for fluoride has been proven in humans.”

6) “Is Fluoride an Essential Element?” Fluorides, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 66-68 (1971)

7) Richard Maurer and Harry Day, “The Non-Essentiality of Fluorine in Nutrition” Journal of Nutrition, 62: 61-57(1957)

8) “Applied Chemistry” Second Edition, by Prof. William R. Stine, Chapter 19 (see pp. 413 & 416) Allyn and Bacon, Inc, publishers. 

“Fluoride has not been shown to be required for normal growth or reproduction in animals or humans consuming an otherwise adequate diet, nor for any specific biological function or mechanism.”

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