Professor: The maximum level of fluoride compounds are 100 times too high

Professor: The maximum level of fluoride compounds are 100 times too high
The European food authorities should lower the limit on how many fluorocarbons people can tolerate for one hundredth of today. It says the professor, who has shown that drugs can destroy the vaccine. He was even helping to define the limits.

By Magnus Bredsdorff, Thursday 26th January 2012 pm. 06:06
The European food authority levels for persistent fluorinated compounds is 100 times too high and must be lowered as soon as possible.

This is the invitation from Professor Philippe Grandjean, University of Southern Denmark. He is first author on a study showing that the polyfluorinated substances get vaccines for children to work less, even at concentrations that are common both at home and abroad.

Philippe Grandjean has therefore sent its investigation with a recommendation to review the limit again to the European body for food safety, EFSA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Food_Safety_Authority

"I myself have been thoroughly mistake '
Just EFSA established in 2008, the current limit, which in practice is a measure of how large amounts of polyfluorinated substances is safe to consume. It is also called the tolerable daily intake and reduced TDI.

Philippe Grandjean went along to the panel of the EFSA, which then reached the limit of 1.5 micrograms of fluoride compounds per kilogram body weight per day.

"I have helped to take that wrong. The EFSA must take hold of now, "says the Danish professor who no longer sits in the panel.

He believes that the limits should be reduced, both because of fluorine compounds resulted in the Faroese children in the new study did not get full effect of their vaccinations, and because of animal experimentation.

According to Philippe Grandjean, the current limit to know that the researchers looked at the harm in including experiments with rats.

The lowest doses that produce effects in rats were first divided by ten in order to take into account that people may be more vulnerable. Researchers then divided again by ten, because some people, including children and pregnant women may be particularly vulnerable.

The approach is normal when researchers imposing limits on animal studies.

"But after we fix TDI, American scientists began to give pregnant rats, PFOS (the best studied of fluorine compounds, ed.). They found adverse effects at exposures similar to what we humans are exposed to, "notes the professor.

It was only one hundredth of the dose that EFSA was based in. If the new trial must be included, then the limit then divided by 100, says Philippe Grandjean.

"When we also have a study showing that the substances have effects on children, we can not stand at the threshold value that exists today," he says.

Microwave Popcorn violation may already limit
Immediately, a change of values does not lead to a ban on strip products. But it will force the authorities to seriously reconsider the quantities of substances as such must be permitted in the food packaging made of cardboard and paper.

A doctoral dissertation from the Department showed last year that bags of microwave popcorn contains so many fluorine compounds that probably violate current limits. If they are 100 times too high, then there is a serious source of pollution.

Two of the other researchers behind the study on perfluorinated compounds and vaccines backs that authorities need to investigate the limit. One, Dr. Kari Mølbak from Statens Serum Institut, dare not say whether it is 100 times too high.

Nor Pál Weihe, Consultant, Department of Occupational and Public Health of the Faroe Islands Hospital, knows the hundredth is the right limit.

"But we can see some effects on children, and as long as we can, so there must be something. The limits should be far down, "he says.

Long process to change values
It will however have to take a long time before the Authority may reduce the limits. First, the organization must assess whether it ever finds a basis for reviewing the latest research, then it must formulate a mission to the Scientific Assessment Panel, as appropriate, must investigate.

It tells Josef Schlatter, who heads the department of nutrition and toxicology in the Swiss food authorities. He is chairman of the EFSA scientific panel dealing with the contamination of food, and who stood behind the study of fluorine compounds in 2008.

Josef Schlatter has heard about but not had the opportunity to read the study from the Faroe Islands and would therefore not give a personal assessment of it.