Media Release:
Queenslanders For Safe Water Air and Food Inc
14th May 2009
WORST AUSTRALIAN "FLUORIDE" ACCIDENT
Premier Bligh today announced an accident at the North Pine Dam Water treatment plant on May 1st when water massively overdosed with Sodium Silicofluoride was released into the public water supply.
About 4,000 homes are believed to have received water containing 30mg/l fluoride. This level is nearly 40 times higher than the 0.8 mg/L Qld Health advised in Nov 2008 was to be the level for water supplies in SE Qld.
Water with 30 mg/L fluoride ion is equivalent to 120 fluoride tablets per litre of water, or 30 fluoride tablets per 250 ml glass, yet the Premier has denied that there was a health risk.
At a media opportunity on 5th October 2008, the spokesperson for Prominent, supplier of fluoridation equipment used in Qld, told Stephen Robertson, then Qld Health Minister, that the maximum fluoridators could inject was 0.8 mg/L.
It appears that there has been three major malfunctions, one with the injector continuing to inject much more fluoride into the water than it was supposed to, combined with failures of the automatic inline monitoring and automatic failsafe shutdown system.
Despite fluoride levels being able to be measured in seconds with ion selective electrodes, it was not until 12 days after the accident that SEQ Water received test results showing the extremely high fluoride levels. WHY THIS HUGE DELAY ????
Despite the Premiers denial of harm, persons consuming this water were overdosed 40 fold with fluoride. People particularly at risk of harm include Diabetics, the Kidney impaired, people with chemical sensitivity or hypersensitivity to fluoride and infants.
Mothers in the suburbs affected, who made up a day's worth of baby bottles with tap water on the morning of 1st May would have overdosed vulnerable infants at every feed. The huge bolus dose of fluoride could have permanently damaged children's developing teeth but this damage, Dental Fluorosis, will not be seen until their teeth erupt from the gums.
The Premier has previously received documented medical evidence that exposure to fluoride at 1mg/L can drastically reduce lung function in a sensitive person. It can only be imagined what could happen with a sensitive person drinking water at 30mg/L.
Fluoridation is unethical mass medication, with a poison that insidiously accumulates within the body with 99% of retained fluoride being stored in bones.
Accidents can and will happen, human beings will always make mistakes and errors of judgment, equipment will always malfunction.
Queenslanders For Safe Water, Air and Food Inc demand that the Premier and Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young immediately shut down all Prominent fluoride dosage units at all treatment plants and a full investigation be carried out.
Authorised by Merilyn Haines spokesperson for Queenslanders For Safe Water, Air and Food Inc www.qawf.org
media contact 0418 777 112
FLUORIDE DOSING LEVELS (Advice from Qld Health received 19/11/2008 from Environmental Health Branch-Queensland Health Ph. 3234 1258)
Zone 1: 0.6mg/L ( North East Queensland)
Zone 2: 0.7mg/L ( Rest of Qld)
Zone 3: 0.8mg/L ( South East Queensland)
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This Email from: Diana Buckland, Kallangur, Queensland, Australia Calling a Global Revolution and an immediate, permanent and irrevocable end to SILICOFLUORIDE (S6/S7poisons) POISONING THE WATER SUPPLIES WITH TOXIC WASTE SOURCED FROM INDUSTRY UNDER THE LONGEST RUNNING FRAUD IN HISTORY (known as "WATER FLUORIDATION SCHEMES").
These are dangerous poisons & the Evidence of Harm in The scientific, medical, dental & court evidence received in worldwide submissions proving that fluoridation causes disease, deaths, tooth decay & is useless & environmentally destructive has been suppressed, buried & denied by Governments & their interests.
Judge Flaherty’s statement “Proponents of fluoridation are absolutely right about one thing; there is no real controversy about fluoridation when the facts are heard by an open mind”.
Our members review of evidence over the last eleven years, including animal & human epidemiology studies, indicate a causal link between fluoride/fluoridation & cancer, genetic damage, neurological impairment & bone pathology.
SAY NO TO DRINKING SEWAGE & TOXIC SILICOFLUORIDES
Byron Shire Community Coordinator & United People Trustee
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FLOURIDE INJURED "WON'T BE COMPENSATED"
Brisbane residents who received water with elevated fluoride levels will not be able to take action, a lawyer says.
A Brisbane compensation lawyer says residents who received water with elevated fluoride levels will not be able to take action against the Queensland Government.
For three hours earlier this month some residents at Brendale and Warner, just north of Brisbane, were drinking water with a fluoride concentration 20 times higher than the recommended maximum limit. An investigation is underway into an equipment malfunction.
Four thousand homes were affected and Premier Anna Bligh says they should receive an apology. But lawyer Mark O'Connor says the Water Fluoridation Act prevents any legal action being taken against the Government over the bungle.
"The legislation makes it perfectly clear that there is no civil remedy for persons who drink fluoridated water, so regrettably if someone does have some illness that is caused by water fluoridation they don't have any civil remedy in Queensland," he said.
The Australian Medical Association says Brisbane residents could indeed suffer health problems from ingesting too much fluoride. AMA Queensland president Dr Chris Davis says high levels can cause teeth pigmentation and brittleness of bones.
Meanwhile, water officials have begun distributing information to the public about the overdose. Mike Foster from SEQ Water says up to 60 staff will be working this afternoon and tomorrow, running an information stand at the Strathpine shopping centre and making door-to-door visits in the affected suburbs of Brendale and Warner.
He says they will reassure people an investigation is underway, and the health risk was very low.
"Today's really just about the start of our process, the sort of mobilisation of our staff and some private contractors in to tomorrow, to ensure that every household and business in the Warner-Brendale areas actually do receive information about the North Pine fluoride incident," he said.
