FLUORINE-A HEALTH SCANDAL FINALLY PUBLICIZED

In April 2016, France 5 has decided to "declassify" the media-Fluor folder in an Audrey Gloagen documentary "Fluor, a friend who wants to harm you." Until then, the media "mainstream" seemed uncomfortable vis-à-vis this issue of public health, they had neglected for so long, up to promote the consumption of fluorine in many commercials.

The survey Audrey Gloagen course begins as a thriller, loving journalists to stage by giving the starring role. After an exchange of text messages with his "editorial" that informs the danger of fluoride, the reporter decides to exhume the archives of steel Schneider Creusot in the Burgundy and discovers a report "Pollution" 1970 indicating that fluoride was used to melt steel in blast furnaces and gave off toxic fumes. Dental fluorosis had developed in the surrounding population and livestock Charolais neighbors.

Caries and dental fluorosis (refined sugar and fluoride toothpaste)

Among the dangers of fluoride, dental fluorosis is one of the pathologies "less serious" but more and more common in children: unsightly stains on teeth with destruction of enamel (which makes the patient very susceptible to caries). Because consumption of fluoride is toxic from 1 mg per day for children and 4 mg for adults.

It is found in our water, toothpaste, our stoves, our salt, our clothes and toxicity now worries scientists around the world.

"A teacher knows fluorine more than anyone to have been the subject of his thesis. Anne-Marie Musset runs one of the largest centers of dental surgery in France. At the Faculty of Strasbourg, he happens regularly see fluoride poisoning problems. "

She advises parents to minimize the amount of fluoride toothpaste on the toothbrush of their children. In March 2009, printing on boxes of toothpaste with fluoride to the "size of a pea" dose for children was imposed by statute. Prof. Musset says:

    "The fluorosis seen in France, in 80% of cases, these are children who have swallowed toothpaste overdose. "

This is human fluorosis. Fluorine, ingested in high doses, causes severe bone problems and, to a lesser dose, causes dental fluorosis: horizontal traces and brown spots appear on the teeth and the enamel is gradually destroyed.

An embarrassing poison for multinational

The US company Alcoa had in the 1930s a major problem with fluorine. As Schneider in France, Alcoa generates toxic fumes extracting aluminum fluoride grace. Concerned about the risks of trial, Alcoa survey from 1931 on dental fluorosis around its plant in Massena, New York. In an internal letter, the company stated that many dentists have observed cases of mottled enamel on the teeth of their patients. Water contamination particularly concerned the company could eventually see patients turn against her for dental fluorosis problems, thyroiditis and arthritis. According to two American experts interviewed for the report, in and around factories, cases of poisoning multiplied and Alcoa needed arguments to defend themselves against the courts and to highlight the positive aspects of fluorine.

"The answer to her problem, Alcoa will find the Mellon Institute, a laboratory of Applied Sciences in Pittsburgh that the aluminum giant has itself created to serve the interests of industry. The institute has already been useful to legitimize asbestos, for example.
    In 1935, a scientist, Gerald Cox, works there. He is conducting a study on the teeth using laboratory rats. A man will come forward and meet him: his name is Francis Frary, it is the research director of Alcoa and will strongly suggest to Cox to introduce fluorine in its study. "

This is to identify the beneficial role of fluoride on caries to offset all the other negative aspects of the product. Gerald Cox recognize this collusion during a match with a historian in 1956.

    "The poison has become a cure. The Mellon Institute announces four years later in a scientific journal that fluoride is probably the element allowing the teeth to be more resistant to decay. (...) This is a small operation has made the great history of fluorine. No one will think the challenge for decades. "

After World War II, fluorine is introduced in many products: water, salt, chewing gum, and of course in toothpaste. The France will not be outdone, since it will prescribe fluoride to infants and children as drops from birth or tablets.

It was not until 2008 in France that Professor Goldberg of the University Paris 5 and several experts from the French Agency for Safety of Health Products gradually require doctors to back down in their orders.

From 2012, in his article dedicated to the dangers of fluoride, Au Bon Sens denounced the consumption of toothpaste with fluoride by children in the prevention of caries and even analyzing the real causes of childhood caries:

    "If there is therefore an effective way to reduce children's caries is obviously replacing refined sugars everywhere with complete sugar or other natural sugars (fruits, honey, syrups plant). It must be recognized that fluoride has a "Cavity", but it is largely overstated by the medical world. "

In Common Sense has also added to its catalog of organic toothpastes without fluoride toothpaste for children, and has always encouraged the consumption of whole sugar (unrefined).

Fluoride in water

Beyond the medical authorities, health authorities, too, seem to have shown some "laissez-faire".

There are some years, Alexandra Thebault, a resident of the Bordeaux region, sounded the alarm. This mother has done that for years, filling the bottles with tap water, his family had been drinking this water does not comply without being cautioned and her daughter had developed dental fluorosis stage 2. it nevertheless escaped the worst: twenty studies worldwide also shows that fluoridated water can cause neurological delays in children.

    "Present naturally in the basement rock, fluorine contaminate water beyond the regulatory limit. "

For a long time in the area of ​​family Thebault, the Union Water delivers a non-compliant water regularly exceed the threshold of 1.5 mg / L for children. Yet until 2010, residents received water quality assessments indicating no warning.

The regional health agency did not alert local councils and the families concerned. And above all, it has not been able to impose the Union of the waters its own standards to avoid exceeding the fluoride levels in the water.

In France, according to the Ministry of Health, the non-compliant water for fluoride has already been distributed at least once in 22 departments.

Fluorine and table salt
Failing to focus on the commercial fluorine-refined sugar complementary implementation by industrial, documentary highlights still the problematic case of "table salt". Because the sources of poisoning may be multiple: toothpaste, mineral water, tap water, but table salt (iodized and fluorinated). "And very soon, we can drop the maximum recommended dose. "The competent dentists, as Professor Anne Musset, are now forced to make fluorinated intake assessments with their patients to examine current or mineral water, table salt and toothpaste they 

use.

Au Bon Sens, table salt of Guérande is unrefined and without fluoride. It is also available in coarse salt or salt.

Fluorine and tea

The foods also are concerned by the dangerous presence of fluorine.

At the University of Derby in England, researchers Paul Lynoh and Aradhana Mehra discovered that high consumption of tea (discount or distributor brand) contains more fluoride than other 6 of 10 teas exceed 4 mg threshold fluorine per adult per day, overcome beyond which our health is threatened.

    "The pure black teas and contain on average 2 mg of fluoride per liter. Blue Oolong teas, which are as pure blends, have a comparable value. Mixtures of black teas sold by pincipales brands contain between 3 and 4 mg of fluoride per liter. Green tea has very similar values. But mixtures of black teas cheap, those distributors marks, have a very high fluorine content, between 5 and 8 mg / L. "

Why do we find more fluoride in tea cheap? The reason lies in the way the tea is harvested: to make tea cheap, manufacturers use a technique of mechanized harvesting, reaping the top leaves and buds but also the lower leaves and the more mature, which are the busiest course in fluorine.

"In English tea drinkers, but also Americans, several studies have revealed cases of skeletal fluorosis, a disease where the fluorine begins to take the place of calcium. The bones become so fragile, breaking for no reason. "

Au Bon Sens offers organic teas and infusions, where the fluorine content is minimal.

Perfluorocarbons (PFCs)

PFCs are chemicals riddled with fluorine. Used for their waterproofing properties, they consist of many products of the textile industries. But they cause more serious diseases that fluorosis.

    "Greenpeace launched a cry of alarm. Associated with the carbon and chemically handled, fluorine is extremely dangerous. Scientists Greenpeace went to the remotest corners of the planet to take samples, and everywhere they found PFCs. A compound made in factories scattered around the world. During the production process, these microscopic particles contaminate rivers but also disperse in the form of gas or fine particles. They travel with the wind and eventually return to earth. "

In 2013, PFCs have been identified as priority hazardous substance in Europe. Greenpeace activist and former chemist Manfred Santen explains:

"These components accumulate. This means that they remain in the body. They go to our organs (such as kidney or liver) and they stay there for several years. "

Manfred Santen examined forty products (duvets, sports jacket ...) in order to detect these dangerous compounds. Result: only 4 did not contain PFCs. Even pizza boxes can contain so that the pizza comes off more easily ...

The epic Du Pont de Nemours

For the purposes of his documentary, Audrey Gloagen also went in Parkersburg, Virginia, United States. This small town has the distinction of hosting the world's largest production site of the DuPont company (its full name "EI du Pont Nemours & Co."), the chemical giant which, thanks to PFC has including coined the famous Teflon.

    "Behind the business case of the stove that does not stick hides a tragedy. To produce Teflon, DuPont de Nemours has used for over 50 years a particular perfluorinated compound PFOA (also known as C8), emitting toxic fumes, contaminating rivers and drinking water to the entire region. "

Many residents of Parkersburg fell ill. "In 2005, 70 000 people were invited to make analyzes. The study found that PFOA was present in their blood and often in high doses. "At the end of the study, Professor Savitz, an epidemiologist at Brown University, and colleagues reported their findings. There is a link between exposure to PFOA and health problems in 6 diseases: heart in several forms, kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disorders, ulcerative colitis (bowel disease) preeclampsia (hypertension during pregnancy). Collective action was taken against DuPont.

"DuPont knew of the dangers of PFC, and even for a long time.

In 1945 the United States come from dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. A few years earlier launched the Manhattan Project: a classified secret defense project, commissioned to build factories in the country to produce the bomb. found it engineers the means to enrich uranium thanks to fluoride. An extremely corrosive substance for which the aid of an industrial will prove invaluable: DuPont and Teflon-based PFC.

Christopher Bryson (journalist): "Fluoride was essential to the manufacture of the atomic bomb. Huge amounts of fluorine have been transported with the uranium in the form of a gas called uranium hexafluoride. And this gas was used to separate the explosive fraction of uranium from its non-explosive fraction. They needed trucks and tanks that could withstand the corrosive power of fluorinated gases. They had found something that is capable of protecting metals from corrosive influence of fluorine it was Teflon. So DuPont's expertise in fluorine was actually the secret weapon that has allowed the US to build the atomic bomb. "

In the Jackson Laboratory in New Jersey, DuPont Teflon indeed invented a few years earlier. Employees will then be secretly working for the Manhattan Project. But serious medical problems appear where one handles perfluorinated compounds.

In a recently declassified document dated November 44 and sent to Colonel Warren, head of the Manhattan Project, the army is concerned the matter was noised abroad: "Some of these men are clearly undesirable workers on this particular project , they spread the word being transferred in this area is more or less an exile on what they call the Devil's island. "

Christopher Bryson: "The union representatives and workers themselves were terrified because there were so many accidents they were afraid to handle these chemicals. There were deaths, terrible burns. There was a high exposure to these products. DuPont knew how the chemical they used during the Second World War was dangerous. "

Since water has flowed under the bridge and Teflon has delighted housewives. And then one day, studies have shown that cooking stoves gave off toxic fumes at high temperatures. "

In 2012, Au Bon Sens denounced Teflon DuPont and the multinational had immediately responded through his lawyers.

To cook without risking your health and that of your family, Au Bon Sens offers cooking stoves without Teflon.

Fluorine in the blood

     "PFCs are everywhere: in our stoves, our duvets, our carpets, in the air, the rivers. According to a study of the health authorities, 98% of Americans have PFCs in the blood. And no need to have factories close to be contaminated. "

Today, even if NGOs like Greenpeace are mobilizing against the PFC, even if class actions are launched against DuPont, although brands like Adidas renew their marketing strategy by launching collections without PFOA and although several countries demand that PFOA is permanently banned, manufacturers have already replaced PFOA by other perfluorinated compounds to circumvent the ban future.