WASHINGTON ACTION FOR SAFE WATER

JAMES ROBERT DEAL ATTORNEY PLLC
PO Box 2276, Lynnwood, Washington  98036-2276
Telephone 425-771-1110, Fax 425-776-8081
James@JamesRobertDeal.com

PRESS RELEASE:
WASHINGTON ACTION FOR SAFE WATER
TO OCCUPY SEATTLE MUNICIPAL BUILDING MONDAY AT NOON
SEATTLE WATER IS NOT SAFE TO DRINK
DUE TO LEAD, ARSENIC, SILICOFLUORIDES ADDED

October 31, 2011

Summary:
On Monday at noon, members of Washington Action for Safe Water will occupy the foyer of the Seattle Municipal Building to deliver this press release, hand out our fliers, and as a group deliver them to the mayor, city council members, and city attorney. Bill Osmunson, Bellevue Dentist, and president of WASW, says: “Seattle adds the cheap, commercial, toxic waste version of fluoride to our water, known as silicofluoride. It is not FDA approved. It is not pharmaceutical grade. It contains lead and arsenic. And it leaches lead from pipes.”

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Bill Osmunson, Bellevue Dentist, and president of WASW, says: “Seattle adds the cheap, commercial, toxic waste version of fluoride to our water, known as silicofluoride. It is not FDA approved. It is not pharmaceutical grade. It contains lead and arsenic, and it leaches lead from pipes.

On Monday at noon, members of WASW and other safe water groups will occupy the foyer of the Seattle Municipal Building to deliver this press release, hand out fliers, and as a group deliver them to the mayor, city council members, and city attorney.

Fluoride Class Action, a sister group which takes a tougher line and warns of coming lawsuits, has served Notice of Potential Liability on the city.

http://fluoride-class-action.com/notice-of-liability-to-seattle-10-11-11

Osmunson says, “Washington Action for Safe Water is demanding a written response and demanding that this issue be put the issue on the Seattle City Council agenda. All candidates for office are being asked if they will put this issue on the agenda and give it a fair hearing.”

http://fluoride-class-action.com/questionaire-to-candidates

According to James Robert Deal, Lynnwood attorney and vice-president of WASW, “In 2004 we learned that tap water in old Seattle schools contained lead at up to 1.6 parts per million, an extremently high level, higher than the fluoride level. Old schools contain brass pipes and fittings which can be from 8% to 30% lead. Much money has been spent replacing pipes, but the lead leaching problem in Seattle schools has not been solved. Ending fluoridation would stop most lead leaching and stop the dumbing down of our children.”

http://fluoride-class-action.com/hhs/comments-re-lead

According to Deal, “Silicofluoride also contains arsenic, a confirmed Type 1, Class A human carcinogen. There is no acceptable level of arsenic which may be added to drinking water.”

According to Ossmunson, who also has a degree in public health, “The CDC admits that 41% of children age 12-15 suffer from some degree of dental fluorosis, that 8.6% suffer from mild fluorosis (white spots and some brown spots with up to 50% of tooth surfaces affected), and that 3.6% suffer from moderate and severe fluorosis (white spots and brown spots and sometimes pitting and chalky teeth, with up to 100% of tooth surfaces affected).”

Ossmunson says, “The CDC also admits that the effect of fluoride is topicial only. It makes as much sense to drink fluoride as it would to eat sunscreen.”

Ossmunson continues, “The CDC, ADA, and many other groups advise that infants should not drink fluoridated water nor consume formula made up with fluoridated water. Their kidneys are not developed, and they have trouble excreting it.”

Ossmunson says, “If fluoride is in tap water, it is all food and beverages made with tap water – cola, coffee, beer, reconstituted juices, bread, cereal, canned vegetables, rice, and restaurant food.”

Deal says, “The silicofluoride we drink is cumulative. The body has trouble eliminating it and stores half in bones and other organs. Silicofluoride builds up over a lifetime and causes or worsens hip fractures, arthritis, kidney disease, thyroid disease, and many other maladies.”

Deal says, “The effect of silicofluoride on Hispanics, Blacks, and the poor is greatest. Alveda King, Bernice King, and Andrew Young are leaders in the Fluoride-Gate movement. They see fluoride as the next civil rights issue.”

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We will occupy the center of the Municipal Building foyer with our Washington Safe Water sign, which says “Tap Water – Not Safe To Drink – WashingtonSafeWater.com.

Send a news crew to the municipal building at Noon on Monday, October 31 for this press release. I will be there beginning at 11:00 for interviews. My phone number is 425-774-6611.

For comments call:

JAMES ROBERT DEAL ATTORNEY PLLC
PO Box 2276, Lynnwood, Washington  98036-2276
Telephone 425-771-1110, Fax 425-776-8081
James@JamesRobertDeal.com

COMMENT REGARDING FLUORIDATION RULEMAKING
NOTICE OF POTENTIAL LIABILITY

June 4, 2011

Dear Mr. McLaughlin,

I am responding to WSR 11-11-046 Pre-Proposal Statement of Inquiry relating to water fluoridation. See:  http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/laws/wsr/2011/11/11-11-046.htm.

I am sending you two letters which I recently sent to Health & Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency. See www.Fluoride-Class-Action.com/HHS. These letters show that fluoride does not prevent dental decay and in addition is harmful to teeth, bones, and many organs and systems of the human body.

I am enclosing hard copies of those letters. You may read them online, which is advantageous because you will be able to follow the links to other documents.

Read the html version of my Report Card for HHS and EPA, updated May 19, 2011 by clicking here: http://fluoride-class-action.com/hhs/report-card-for-hhs.

Or read the PDF version here: http://fluoride-class-action.com/wp-content/uploads/james-robert-deal-report-card-to-hhs-and-epa-5-19-11.pdf.

Read the html version of the Comment to HHS and EPA Regarding Lead, Arsenic, and Water Fluoridation, updated May 19, 2011, by clicking here: http://fluoride-class-action.com/hhs/comments-re-lead.

Or read the PDF version here by  clicking here: http://fluoride-class-action.com/wp-content/uploads/james-robert-deal-comments-to-hhs-and-epa-regarding-lead-and-water-fluoridation-5-19-11.pdf.

HHS is proposing to lower its recommended fluoridation level to .7 ppm, and the Washington State Board of Health is proposing to follow the lead of HHS and revise WAC 246-290-460 to mirror the HHS recommendation.

However, HHS has absolutely no jurisdiction over water fluoridation and no authority to recommend fluoride be added to water at any level. The Board of Health should not be following the lead of HHS.

The SDWA specifically prohibits requiring the addition of any chemical to drinking water for medical purposes. See 42 USC 300g-1(b)(11)[3]:

No national primary drinking water regulation may require the addition of any substance for preventive health care purposes unrelated to contamination of drinking water.”

Fluoride is added for “preventive health care purposes”. It is added for “purposes unrelated to contamination of drinking water”, such as removing other contaminants. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act (FDCA) defines a drug as an article

… intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animal. 21 U.S.C. 321 (g)(1)(B)

Fluoride mixed with water at any level meets federal definitions of the terms “drug” and “medication.” Fluoride is added for “preventive health care purposes”, and therefore fluoride is a drug.

HHS proposes to recommend fluoridation at .7 ppm. However, it cannot require fluoridation at any level. HHS should not recommend what it cannot require. The same is true of EPA.

The prohibition against requiring the addition of chemicals such as fluoride for medical purposes flows down to the states and to municipalities, as I explain in my letters.

Washington State Board of Health should not defer to HHS but should defer to the FDA. The Board of Health should pass a new rule which forbids municipalities from adding any amount of fluoride to drinking water unless and until the form of fluoride used and the concentration is approved by the FDA.

RCW 57.08.012 allows water districts to fluoridate drinking water, however, it does not say what type of fluoridation materials may be used nor at what level they may be used. Nor does that statute excuse municipalities from conforming to federal law and fluoridating (medicating) only with FDA approved fluoride. Fluoride travels in interstate commerce, and federal law trumps state law.

I make it clear in the letters attached that the silicofluorides used are much more harmful than sodium fluoride and that they contain lead and arsenic and leach lead out of pipes. Washington has failed to give the lead warnings, which federal law requires Washington to give.

NOTICE OF POTENTIAL LIABILITY

The Washington State Board of Health and the State of Washington, by recommending and allowing water fluoridation with materials unapproved by the FDA, are exposing the agency to liability. Class action attorneys are working on preparing the lawsuits right now. Check with your insurance carrier to see if there is sufficient coverage for the massive damage verdicts which are coming.

Bear in mind that now that the Board of Health and its leadership have now been put on notice of their potential liability, continued fluoridation using current fluoridation chemicals and in the quantities used constitutes bad faith action and may subject the leadership of the Board of Health to personal liability for the harm caused. Check with your own personal insurance carrier to see if your umbrella policy covers you for poisoning the public with the most potent electron negative of the elements.

Sincerely,

6-14-10   To David Sirota, ds@davidsirota.com:  

Your article in the Seattle Times on June 14 was good. http://washingtonsafewater.com/fluoride-warning-for-infants/   I like the fact that you included the effect of a meat diet on the environment.  

However, you need to inform yourself regarding tap water.

You said that “clean tap water is ubiquitously available in America.”   However, around 60% of us get tap water that is fluoridated. Fluoride is highly diluted poison.  

See http://washingtonsafewater.com/petition-to-board-of-health/  

See: http://fluoridealert.org  

See my own legal brief at http://www.box.net/shared/iedafn1jr7  

Fluorosilicic acid typically used to fluoridate water is the unfiltered scrubber liquor from the production of phosphate fertilizer. It contains lead and arsenic plus numerous other heavy metals.

The body retains half the fluoride we consume. Fluoride makes bones harder and more brittle. Fluoride is an enzyme interruptor.  

Some 1 to 5% of the population is hyper allergic to fluoride. See: http://fluoride-class-action.com/wp-content/uploads/lohr-amicus-brief-fluoride-sensitized.pdf.pdf  

Fluoridated water is especially harmful to infants. See: http://washingtonsafewater.com/fluoride-warning-for-infants/  

For a good background intro to the subject see:  http://fluoride-class-action.com/the-story.  

This absurd practice arose as a method of disposing of toxic waste through dilution. It is illegal to dump fluoride into rivers or oceans, but fertilizer companies sell it to water districts where it is dumped in our water. See:  http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/363.html.  

What you should say is that tap water that non-fluoridated or fluoridated water that is distilled or run through a reverse osmosis filter is safe and ubiquitous and can be transported in bottles without people buying water in bottles.

It is a problem that some bottled water is fluoridated and there is no requirement that fluoride content be disclosed.  

Fluoride is a big issue, and as an environmentalist, you should familiarize yourself with the pros and cons.  

James Robert Deal V-P, www.WashingtonSafeWater.com