Human Toxicity, Environmental Impact and Legal Implications of

HUMAN TOXICITY, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF WATER FLUORIDATION
Aluminium-based products, particularly those for water treatment (e.g.,
aluminium sulfate [alum], polyaluminium chloride [PAC], and sodium
aluminate), are commonly used as compounds in water treatment in Ireland.
It is also known that the relative risk of having Alzheimer‘s disease is increased
when individuals have a high amount of alumimum in the brain coupled with
low levels of fluoride. 297 Concern over the use of aluminium compounds as
coagulants in drinking water treatment plants using fluoridation (as well as in
effluent wastewater treatment plants) exists, since their addition usually results
in an increase in the amount of aluminium in finished water.
Further important details on the toxicological profile of aluminium fluorides
have been documented in a number of important studies that demonstrated
serious kidney abnormalities and blood vessel deteriorations. 298 , 299 , 300 One
group of investigators has proposed that the aluminium present in infant
formulas played a role in the development of aluminium toxicity in two
neonates with renal fai1ure. 301 The Varner et al. research team concluded
that the alterations of the blood vessels from exposure to aluminium fluoride
may be a primary event, triggering neuro-degenerative diseases. It has been
reported that in respect to the study and cause of Alzheimer´s disease, the
long-term action of aluminium fluoride also represents “a serious and potent
risk factor for the development of this new epidemic threat to human
civilization”. 302,303.,304
Professor Strunecká (Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology,
Charles University, Prague), found that “aluminium fluoride might induce the
alterations of homeostasis, metabolism, growth and differentiation of the
living organism. The long-term synergistic effects of these ions in living
environments and their hidden danger for human health are not yet fully
recognized‖. 305
Fluorides and fluoride-aluminium compounds have been demonstrated to
297 Belovjovic, G., Jakovlevic, B. (1999) Aluminum and Alzheimer‘s disease. Spr.
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298 Varner JA, Jensen KF, Horvath W, Isaacson RL, Chronic administration of aluminumfluoride
or sodium-fluoride to rats in drinking water: alterations in neuronal and
cerebrovascular integrity, Brain Res. 1998 Feb 16;784(1-2):284-98
299 Isaacson RL, Varner JA, Jensen KF, Toxin-induced blood vessel inclusions caused
by the chronic administration of aluminum and sodium fluoride and their implications
for dementia, Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1997 Oct 15;825:152-66..
300 Varner JA, Horvath WJ, Huie CW, Naslund HR, Isaacson RL, Chronic aluminum
fluoride administration, I. Behavioral observations, Behav Neural Biol. 1994
May;61(3):233-41
301 Freundlich M, zilleruelo C, Ahitbol C, Strauss J, Faugere MC, Malluche
NH. Infant formula as a cause of aluminum toxicity in neonatal uraemia.
Lancet. 1985;2:527-529
302 STRUNECKÁ A: Aluminium plus fluoride: a new deadly duo in Alzheimer´s disease.
The News (A Hoechst Marion Roussel Report of International Medical Opinion) 1: 10-
11, 1999.
303 STRUNECKÁ A, PATOČKA J: Pharmacological and toxicological effects of
aluminofluoride complexes. Fluoride 32: 230 -242, 1999a.
304 STRUNECKÁ A, PATOČKA J: Re-evaluation of the participation of aluminium in
Alzheimer´s disease (in Czech). Čs fyziol 48: 9-15, 1999b
305 STRUNECKÁ A et al: Fluoride Plus Aluminum: Messengers of False Information,
Physiological Research 51: 557-564, 2002.
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