In May 2006, Professor Connett retired from his full professorship in chemistry at St Lawrence University, Canton, NY, where he taught for 23 years. His specialty was environmental chemistry and toxicology. Over the past 24 years, his research on waste management has taken me 49 US states and 50 different countries, where he has given approximately 2000 pro bono public presentations. He has co-authored 6 peer reviewed articles on dioxin and numerous other articles on waste management. He has reviewed and critiqued numerous health risk assessments prepared for incinerator facilities with a particular focus on the dangers posed by dioxin emission. His latest article on waste management (Zero Waste and Sustainability) will appear in a book to be published in Italy. He has researched the literature on fluoride toxicity for 12 years. He also helped found the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) for which he is the Executive Director. He has given papers and or presentations at the International Society for Fluoride Research conference in New Zealand, Germany, China and Canada; the Japanese Society for Fluoride Research; the American College of Toxicology; the USA EPA; the US National Research Council; the CDC in Nanjing, China; the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Health and Children in Ireland, a parliamentary committee in the Knesset, Israel as well as to many citizens’ groups in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, the UK and the US. He was also an invited peer reviewer of the York Review (McDonagh, et al.,2000). On August 12, 2003 he was invited by the National Research Council, reviewing the toxicology of fluoride in drinking water, to give a 45 minutes presentation on my concern about the dangers posed by fluoride and the inadequacy of the current drinking water standard (MCL) and goal (MCL) to protect health. Many of his concern and the supporting references appeared in the panel’s report (National Research Council 2006). The panel concluded that the MCL (Maximum Contaminant Level) was not protective of health and recommended that the EPA perform a new health risk assessment to determine a new MCLG (exhibit 1-PC). In November 2007, on the Isle of Man, he scientifically debated Dr Michael Lennon, chairman of the British Fluoridation Society. (DVD exhibit 2-PC) Before he began researching the issue of and literatures on fluoride toxicology and the argument pertaining to the water fluoridation debate over 12 years ago, his impression was that people who opposed to water fluoridation were a little “crazy”. After more than 12 years of researching and reading on fluoride toxicology and water fluoridation, he believes that the practice of fluoridation is one of the most preposterous public health policies ever propagated and the sooner it is ended worldwide the better.
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