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Lawsuit Filed Against FDA for Causing Millions of Needless Deaths
September 17, 1997
A suit was filed in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California at San Jose on August 4, 1997,
alleging that the Food and Drug Administration has failed to prevent magnesium deficiency,
thereby causing millions of needless deaths because magnesium deficiency contributes to heart disease.
The connection with fluoridation is that fluoride contributes to magnesium deficiency. The suit was filed by Paul Mason.
For the complete details, see Paul Mason's web site at http://www.execpc.com/~magnesum/index.html.
Here are some excerpts from the court record:
57. CLAIM
58. USC § 201 (f) states that water is a food. 21 USC § 342 states, A food shall be deemed adulterated (b) (1) if any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted therefrom. Therefore water from which nutritious and essential magnesium has been omitted or abstracted, such as by Reverse Osmosis, Distillation, or other, has been adulterated. 21 USC Sec. 331 states, The following acts are hereby prohibited:
59. The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any food ... that is adulterated.
60. The adulteration ... of any food...in interstate commerce.
61. The receipt in interstate commerce of any food...that is adulterated...and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise.
62. The manufacture within any Territory of any food...that is adulterated.
63. Numerous purified bottled waters and in-home water-purification systems use purification methods such as reverse osmosis or distillation which remove valuable nutrients such as magnesium and other healthful minerals, and are therefore adulterated under the law, but the Secretary of Health and the FDA have unlawfully ignored plaintiff’s Petitions, letters, and Constructive Notice of the adulterated water problem, and have permitted unfair competition from deadly, deficient, inferior, and adulterated drinking water, and thereby has harmed, does harm, and will harm plaintiff’s Mg-rich spring water business.
66. ALLEGATION B: Defendants did negligently and/or willfully and unlawfully cause American bottled water to have an average magnesium content of 2.7 mg/L compared to an average magnesium content of bottled water in the rest of the world of 28 mg/L --- over TEN TIMES AS MUCH --- and that this deadly deficiency of American bottled waters was a direct result of the Secretary of Health, DHHS, HEW, FDA, and the Commissioner of the FDA, acting in concert with other agencies of the Federal Government of the United States. . .
Plaintiff accepts, recognizes, and Honors that defendants and said radical far right extremists did Honestly believe that their water-agenda was correct and in the best interests of the American People, and that defendants and said far right extremists would, if informed by injunction of this court, currently be aghast at the pandemic and millions of deaths that they unintentionally wrought by their lack of knowledge existing decades ago and by their hysterical endorsement of pure water, meaning mineral-free water. However, once a fallacy is firmly established and woven into the official policies of manifold agencies of government, even overwhelming scientific evidence is powerless to change conventional wisdom and policies of government in a timely fashion, thus necessitating a resort to this Court, that reason and science, applied within the framework of Law, can be used to discredit fallacy and establish scientific truth, and thereby end and prevent 215,000 needless deaths per annum. . . Highlight from the prayer for relief: 116. For an order that defendants and/or the NAS immediately release to the public the unreleased study of Magnesium, Calcium, Potassium, and Fluoride, and interactions of said minerals, which the FDA commissioned the NAS to perform in 1994, and which went to secret internal review in late 1996, and which has not yet been released to the plaintiff or the public, even though plaintiff instigated the inclusion of Magnesium in the study in 1994. Jump to the web site where the full article was found Home top of this page. Go to Site Main Index
Lady Refuses to Drink Fluoridated Water and Lives to be 107 Years Old September 15, 1997 Irene Sieberling Harrison was born in 1890. Her father was F. A. Sieberling, founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. The Sieberling family has lived in the Akron, Ohio area since 1810. She has always refused to drink fluoridated water. "If I did, I'd be dead," she always used to say. She celebrated her 107th birthday this year. In 1968, there was campaigning for and against a measure to fluoridate the city's water in Akron. Mrs. Harrison opposed the fluoridation measure. Someone put a pro-fluoridation bumper sticker on her car and it was there for a week before she noticed it. She was not thrilled. Her daughter reports that Mrs. Harrison kept a lot of papers about fluoridation in the attic. She saved everything -- except that bumper sticker. Part of the information in this article came from the The Akron Beacon Journal, February 2, 1997, pp. G1+. New Research Reaffirms that Fluoride Concentrations of Infant Foods Are Sometimes High Enough to Cause Dental Fluorosis September 12, 1997 The prevalence of dental fluorosis has continued to increase in the United States and Canada and other industialized countries. Part of the cause may be the hidden sources of fluoride in foods. Researchers at the University of Iowa analyzed 238 commercially available infant foods. The fluoride concentration ranged from 0.01 to 8.38 micrograms per gram. Micrograms per gram is equivalent to parts per million in water. Some manufacturers process foods at various locations where the water may be fluoridated or unfluoridated. The consumer has no reliable way of choosing or avoiding fluoridated brands. Chicken was significantly higher in fluoride content. This is attributed to the mechanical deboning procedure which allows small fragments of bone to get into the chicken product. Dry cereals are another significant source of fluoride when reconstituted with fluoridated water. Food is one of several sources of fluoride intake, along with toothpaste, dietary supplements and fluoridated water. The total amount of fluoride per day is a better measure of fluoride intake than the concentration of fluoride in these sources, but is not easy to assess. This research was published in the July, 1997 issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association. The authors stated their belief that allowing enough fluoride in food to cause dental fluorosis is a good idea. No mention was made of the class action law suit which was filed in the United Kingdom last year against tooth paste companies by more than 200 people who have dental fluorosis from using too much fluoride toothpaste.
Dr. Hodge Should Have Known Fluoridation Was Not Safe September 10, 1997 Darlene Sherrell has unearthed evidence that the original calculations that were used to support the claim that fluoridation is safe were flawed. They were derived from a review written by Dr. Harold Hodge which contained a gross arithmetic error. Dr. Hodge was the authority on the "safety" of fluoridation. Dr. Hodge later admitted the error, but his admission was so obscure, the believers in fluoridation's safety ignored it. Mrs. Sherrell has corresponded about the error with some of the science managers who mismanage fluoridation research in the United States. The details are on her new web site at http://www.inter-view.net/home/sherrell/lettes.htm and http://www.inter-view.net/home/sherrell/sound.htm.
Is Your Bottled Water Fluoridated? July 23, 1997 Fluoridation of public water supplies has been promoted for over fifty years. During the last twelve years, the bottled water market has continued to boom. Americans drink almost 3 billion gallons of water a year. About twenty of the more than 500 brands of bottled water contain fluoride. The Lawrence, Kansas Journal-World, July 15, 1997, pp. 1A, 3A, reports that an ardent pro-fluoridationist, Michael Easley, is concerned about this trend. Mr. Easley says, "I'm concerned about people who are relying on bottled water. They're not getting enough fluoride and may not realize they're depriving their children, who will pay the price their entire lives." One might inquire into what drives people to use bottled water for cooking and drinking. Do harmful effects of additives such as hydrofluosilicic acid and sodium hydroxide contribute to the growing aversion for tap water? For those who feel they must swish with fluoride, now they can use bottled water with fluoride and spare the rest of us.
Legal Action Threatened to Stop Fluoridation in Bremerton, Washington July 17, 1997 Mr. Phil Heggen, a local resident, has warned the Bremerton City Council in a letter dated July 16, 1997 that legal action may be taken to stop their plan to start fluoridation in the Bremerton Water District. His letter reviews some of the recent politically important facts about fluoridation.