To: The Ohio State House, The Ohio State Senate, and Governor Mike DeWine
Fluoridization of our Drinking Water
Petition Statement
After a one time vote in 1970, there is no longer a mechanism for communities to opt out of the 1969 law requiring Fluoridation of our drinking water. Many of us don't need or want fluoride (a waste product), added to our drinking water. Access to fluoridated products is vast through an array of dental products. It is added or naturally occurring in some foods and drinks we consume every day, including baby formula and foods.
The time has come to amend the 1969 law and allow communities another chance to vote for their right to safe drinking water.
Please give Ohioans a right to vote on whether or not fluoride is added to our communities' drinking water.
After a one time vote in 1970, there is no longer a mechanism for communities to opt out of the 1969 law requiring Fluoridation of our drinking water. Many of us don't need or want fluoride (a waste product), added to our drinking water. Access to fluoridated products is vast through an array of dental products. It is added or naturally occurring in some foods and drinks we consume every day, including baby formula and foods.
The time has come to amend the 1969 law and allow communities another chance to vote for their right to safe drinking water.
Please give Ohioans a right to vote on whether or not fluoride is added to our communities' drinking water.
Why is this important?
The General Assembly enacted legislation in 1969 that required all public drinking water systems that serve more than 5,000 residents to fluoridate their water. That 1969 state law allowed communities to opt out via referenda in 1970 and several did.
Today, there is no mechanism for additional communities to opt out of that requirement.
Just as The Safe Drinking Water Act has a review period to examine practices every six years, we believe Ohio State should allow communities to vote periodically on the desire or need for this waste product to be added to our drinking water. The Safe Drinking Water Act is currently under review, and I'm told by Dr. Joyce Donohue’s office at the CDC, there are plans to lower the U.S. recommendations for acceptable levels of fluoride for public drinking water.
Adding Fluoride to our drinking water is another example of "herd" treatment that can have severe health implications for individuals among our "herd". As citizens in an era of easy access to information, unlike the 1970's, we can visit sites such as www.fluoridealert.org and become educated.
Here is some language from the Ohio Department of Health Bureau of Oral Health Services website that may add some clarity to the situation:
'Does Ohio require fluoridation? In 1969, convinced of the public health benefits of community water fluoridation, the Ohio General Assembly passed a law requiring fluoridation of public water supplies that serve more than 5,000 persons. The law provided customers of the affected water systems the opportunity to be exempted through a referendum held within 240 days of the law’s passage.
Which cities are exempt? Thirty Ohio communities held special referenda in 1970 and were exempted from the law. Since then, eight of those communities have reversed the decision. Athens, Bellefontaine, Bellevue, Fairborn, Lebanon, Middletown, Delaware and Tipp City are now fluoridated. However, 22 communities remain exempt from fluoridation'
Everyone has access to fluoridated products, no matter what your financial status may be. It's in toothpaste, mouthwash, dental rinses, offered through dental program as well as the foods and drinks we consume every day. Baby formula contains fluoride.
It is a waste product and according to www.fluoridealert.org's "50 REASONS TO OPPOSE FLUORIDATION", has a cumulative effect, interferes with hydrogen bonding, inhibits numerous enzymes and when complexed with aluminum, interferes with G-proteins (Bigay 1985,1987) which has the potential with many hormonal and some neurochemical signals. It has been shown to be mutagenic, cause chromosome damage and interefer with the enzymes involved with DNA repair in a variety of tissue studies (Tsutsui 1984; Caspary 1987; Kashi 1993 and Mihashi 1996).
The time has come to amend this law and allow communities another chance to vote for their right to safe drinking water.
Today, there is no mechanism for additional communities to opt out of that requirement.
Just as The Safe Drinking Water Act has a review period to examine practices every six years, we believe Ohio State should allow communities to vote periodically on the desire or need for this waste product to be added to our drinking water. The Safe Drinking Water Act is currently under review, and I'm told by Dr. Joyce Donohue’s office at the CDC, there are plans to lower the U.S. recommendations for acceptable levels of fluoride for public drinking water.
Adding Fluoride to our drinking water is another example of "herd" treatment that can have severe health implications for individuals among our "herd". As citizens in an era of easy access to information, unlike the 1970's, we can visit sites such as www.fluoridealert.org and become educated.
Here is some language from the Ohio Department of Health Bureau of Oral Health Services website that may add some clarity to the situation:
'Does Ohio require fluoridation? In 1969, convinced of the public health benefits of community water fluoridation, the Ohio General Assembly passed a law requiring fluoridation of public water supplies that serve more than 5,000 persons. The law provided customers of the affected water systems the opportunity to be exempted through a referendum held within 240 days of the law’s passage.
Which cities are exempt? Thirty Ohio communities held special referenda in 1970 and were exempted from the law. Since then, eight of those communities have reversed the decision. Athens, Bellefontaine, Bellevue, Fairborn, Lebanon, Middletown, Delaware and Tipp City are now fluoridated. However, 22 communities remain exempt from fluoridation'
Everyone has access to fluoridated products, no matter what your financial status may be. It's in toothpaste, mouthwash, dental rinses, offered through dental program as well as the foods and drinks we consume every day. Baby formula contains fluoride.
It is a waste product and according to www.fluoridealert.org's "50 REASONS TO OPPOSE FLUORIDATION", has a cumulative effect, interferes with hydrogen bonding, inhibits numerous enzymes and when complexed with aluminum, interferes with G-proteins (Bigay 1985,1987) which has the potential with many hormonal and some neurochemical signals. It has been shown to be mutagenic, cause chromosome damage and interefer with the enzymes involved with DNA repair in a variety of tissue studies (Tsutsui 1984; Caspary 1987; Kashi 1993 and Mihashi 1996).
The time has come to amend this law and allow communities another chance to vote for their right to safe drinking water.