Fluoride, a major pollutant in phosphate mining and also used in water fluoridation, is documented to be

an extremely problematic pollutant: known to be carcinogenic and highly toxic and to have caused large

numbers of adverse health effects

Fluoride Pollution: An Overview

http://www.fluoridealert.org/f-pollution.htm

Fluoride is more acutely toxic than lead http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/accidents/f-lead.html

Fluoride water 'causes cancer' http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1504672,00.html

http://ewg.org/issues/fluoride/20050606/index.php

FLUORIDE HEALTH EFFECTS DATABASE

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/

Why EPA's Headquarters Professionals' Union Opposes Fluoridation

http://www.fluoridealert.org/hp-epa.htm

Suppression of Scientific Dissent on Fluoride's Risks and Benefits http://www.fluoridealert.org/suppression.htm

Research links low levels of fluoride and aluminum to Alzheimer's and kidney damage

Alzheimer's in America: The Aluminum-Phosphate Fertilizer Connection,

http://www.nofluoride.com/Alzheimer's_in_America.htm

http://www.advancedhealthplan.com/alzheimers.html

http://www.bruha.com/fluoride/

FLUORIDE COMBINES WITH ALUMINIUM IN DRINKING WATER: NEW STUDY SHOWS GRAVE IMPLICATIONS FROM INTERACTION OF ALUMINUM AND LOW DOSE FLUORIDE http://www.actionpa.org/fluoride/aluminum.html

J A Varner, K F Jensen, W Horvath and R L Isaacson, Binghamton, New York, and Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, CHRONIC ADMINISTRATION OF ALUMINUM-FLUORIDE OR SODIUM-FLUORIDE TO RATS IN DRINKING WATER: ALTERATIONS IN NEURONAL AND CEREBROVASCULAR INTEGRITY, Abstracted from Brain Research 784 284-298 1998 http://www.fluoride-journal.com/98-31-2/31291-95.htm .

Dr. Mercola’s Health Letter http://www.mercola.com/article/links/fluoride_links.htm

Lead researcher Dr. C.D. Anuradha, in comments to the Optimal Wellness Center, explains that "fluoride in general is harmful to any type of cell. We have seen that fluoride causes cell death in non-cancerous cells, through a mechanism known as "necrosis". Necrosis, is an externally influenced death, which occurs through some type of local injury (as loss of blood supply, corrosion, burning, or the local lesion of a disease). Studies on fluoride usually use the simplist and least toxic form, sodium fluoride.

However the type of fluoride found in phosphate ore is different and appears to be even more toxic. one of the silicofluorides (either fluosilicic acid or sodium silicofluoride).

However, these chemicals have been shown to act much differently from the much simpler sodium fluoride. In one study, it was shown that these chemicals enhance the cellular uptake of lead (http://www.fluoride-journal.com/98-31-3/313-s25.htm).