Vardy letter on flouride was misleading

Editor:
Re: Get both sides of fluoridation issue.
When I was a councillor in the Village of Burns Lake I had an informal talk with then councillor Dan Rogers (Prince George) at a UBCM meeting in Vancouver.
We discussed briefly the water fluoridation issue in Prince George. In my talk with Dan I explained to him that the issue really wasn’t fluoride at all but rather the nature of the water fluoride chemical that Prince George was adding.
It is an Industrial grade acid that is added in small amounts and it is contaminated with at least four heavy metals albeit in small amounts.
However these small amounts are in fact bio-acculmative and as such store in the body.
The acid does not in fact undergo any refining process at all before it is added to the water supply. It is not pharmaceutical grade acid. Moreover at present no one at the provincial level nor health Canada testifies that the additive used is safe and fit for human consumption.
The additive is merely re-labeled from and industrial grade acid to a water fluoridation compound. Everyone assumes that this chemical Hydrofluorsilicic acid has been thoroughly tested as safe for human consumption but this is not the case.
Jennifer Vardy is the one truly misleading the citizens of Prince George by assuming that the naturally occurring fluoride compound (calcium fluoride CaF) is the same fluoride compound that Prince George is adding(H2SiF6 hydrofluorsilicic acid) and to coin Northern Health …. an acid is an acid and a fluoride is a fluoride, which of course is grossly misleading.
Bill Storness-Bliss