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, 14 May 2009 www.qawf.org
