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Premier Bligh admits to using chemicals, says Botox is no big deal and ‘assured’ Brisbane residents of an ‘extremely minimal health risk’ from poisoning by fluoride in our water supplies and admitted to ‘occasionally doing stupid things’.

Well I don’t know about you, but putting chemicals on your own hair, injecting your own face with Botox maybe OK because as – Anna says – adults can make their own decisions, but what if most people don’t want fluoride in their drinking water?

Now she is doing about face (not that you can see it, must be the Botox) and promising to write a letter of apology to north Brisbane residents (the old Pine Rivers area) for a poisonous chemical 40 times higher than the ‘recommended’ level being injected into their water.

So who recommends the ‘acceptable’ level .. the chemical companies who don’t want litigation, that’s who.

But first, Anna Bligh knows full well the majority of Queenslanders didn’t want fluroidtaion of the water supply and the reason is simple, it is poison.

The malfunction ‘we learned of’ occurred two weeks ago but authorities say it did not pose a health risk; the fluoride system should have shut down automatically but continued to operate for a time pumping a concentration of fluoride through the pipes servicing the Warner and Brendale areas.

Understanding why has it been labled as the worst Australian fluroide accident, its important to know what an overdose is and who and how it affects; people particularly at risk include Diabetics, Kidney impaired, people with chemical sensitivity or hypersensitivity to fluoride; even exposure to fluoride at 1mg/L can drastically reduce lung function in some people and most importantly infants; the huge dose of fluoride can permanently damaged children’s developing teeth, but the damage (dental fluorosis), will not be seen until  their teeth erupt from the gums.  But if you are suffering from diarrhoea, just look at the bright side, you may be passing a lot of the fluoride rather than having it stored in your bones.

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said: “I want to assure all residents of this area that this was an isolated incident and the chance of any health side effects are extremely remote; the advice is that no more than 30 milligrams per litre during that three hour period would have reached the water supplied to household taps; any adverse health effects are very unlikely and would be limited – at the most – to very mild gastroenteritis which would have been temporary and have no long-term health consequences’.

Although Dr Jeannette Young may be the Queensland Chief Health Officer, with over 22 years in administration and following government and hospital administrators’ direction the majority of her working life, her call is hardly credible.

The Premier has previously received documented medical evidence that fluoridation is an unethical mass medication via a poison that insidiously accumulates within the body with 99% of retained fluoride being stored in bones.

Yet the ‘authorities’ (as they collectively run for cover) claim only about 4,000 homes received water containing 30mg/l fluoride, 40 times higher than the 0.8 mg/L Qld Health advised (in Nov 2008).

Now consider that a lethal dose is approximately 28 mg per kilogram of body mass and yet water tested showed 30 mg/L fluoride ion, 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 even a health risk; I’d like to see Anna quaff that down even on a hot day.

So whether there was one accident or now ‘maybe’ three major malfunctions (with one 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 and 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 !

For reassurance, the Premier Anna Bligh said ‘I want to assure everyone that our water is safe (sic) but it’s critical my government is as honest as possible’   Pardon, ‘honest as possible’, does that mean little white lies to protect us or them?

Lawyer Mark O’Connor (Bennett and Philp Lawyers), revealed the following clause while demanding that the Queensland Government should pay for medical tests for Brisbane residents affected by the fluoride bungle ‘introducing fluoride to Queensland’s water supply contained a clause banning legal action for compensation if problems should arise.

The Premier uttered some logical last words ‘maybe there are some long term lessons for us here, not only in relation to fluoride but other water quality issues’.