2011/10/05 Council Agenda Packet

Everett City Council October 5, 2011 Page Three Note that the National Kidney Foundation is not currently on the endorser list. The question is whether the National Kidney Foundation was ever was on the fluoride endorser list. Fortunately, there is an internet tool called the Way Back Machine. www.InternetArchive.org. You can see a snapshot of website pages on various dates in the past. So if we go back to June of 2008, we see that the National Kidney Foundation was in fact on the ADA web site list of fluoride endorsers. http://web.archive.org/web/20080607092909/http://www.ada.org/pub lic/topics/fluoride/facts/compendium.asp However, beginning in July of 2008 the National Kidney Foundation disappeared from the endorsement list. http://web.archive.orgf web/20080704155543/http://ada.org/public/to pics/fluoride/facts/compendium.asp Council Member Nielsen said that because we were wrong on this point, we have lost credibility with the City Council. I hope that Council Member Nielsen will acknowledge that our credibility has been restored. We have made a convincing case that there is valid concern about the effectiveness and safety of fluoridation. This issue should be put on the regular agenda. Hearings should be held. Until that happens, it is not our credibility which is in question but the credibility of Everett city government. *** There is more that should be said about the National Kidney Foundation. It makes inconsistent and incorrect statements about fluoridation. I quote from the 2008 National Kidney Foundation statement. [My comments are in square brackets.] The EPA does not regulate or promote the fluoridation of water. [The EPA regulates and promotes water fluoridation indirectly through the National Sanitation Foundation, which the EPA turned into a sham regulatory agency that approved and authorized adding fluoride to drinking water. www.Fluoride-Class- Action.com/sham. The EPA still finances the work of the National