The Donora 75th Anniversary Tue Oct 31 PA Captial

The Pennsylvania Chapter of Children’s Health Defense is hosting with Fluoride Free PA and Beyond Plastics a commemorative exhibition and press conference in the Capitol Building in Harrisburg.  Donora, PA’s telling and deadly chemical disaster, the worst in US history, has been largely ignored in Pennsylvania and in the U.S. Why? Did you know about it?

Please join us to help lawmakers and their staff and public remember the killing of dozens of people by US Steel fluoride emissions that were caught in a thermal air inversion.

In 1948, an air inversion in the Donora Valley trappedemissions from a local zinc works factory. Fluoride in the emissions killed twenty-plus people within a few days—56 over two weeks—and the aftermath is incalculable. Independent scientist Philip Sadtler documented that fluoride was found at lethal levels in the victim’s blood. Smithsonian Magazine states, “A report by the U.S. Public Health Service counted 5,910 people affected by the smog but failed to name a definite culprit. Life expectancy in the town fell precipitously over the next two decades.

Tuesday’s press conference and exhibition in the Capital will shine the light on fluoride.  Participants will present a timeline of how Donora coincided with the onset of Community Water Fluoridation (CWF), describe the cover-up of the Donora disaster, and how this relevant today.  The “F” in PFA’s, the forever chemical being outlawed in many states, is fluoride. Learn more about PFA’s in our toxic environment. Are there any safe levels of fluoride? The National Toxicology Program is about to say no.

The public needs protective legislation to end the long-controversial policy of CWF. Water companies are not qualified medical personnel, fluoride has never been FDA approved for oral administration and the treatment of the public for dental decay without their informed consent is illegal and demonstrably ineffective. The risks of neurotoxicity (lowering IQ), dental fluorosis, bone degradation, endocrine disruption, and systemic poisoning through fluoride exposure are severe.  The public needs a groundswell of action to make room for science.  Please consider joining us and sharing our announcement.