“We are dependent on China for too many things” says Village President Ray Mach of Port Sanilac
LEXINGTON, Mich.—The discovery that a Michigan town’s drinking water treatment plant has been adding Chinese-made fluoride to its water supply for years has some of its residents upset.
“It’s absurd,” said Steve Stencel, a long-time restaurant owner in Lexington, Michigan. “It’s not good at all, buying our drinking water treatment chemicals from a communist nation that is our enemy. I am surprised that any municipality would buy fluoride for its drinking water from China. Our country needs to know this is happening.”
Lexington Village Utilities Director Chris Heiden said the water plant has used Chinese fluoride for years without any problems.
Fluoride is a chemical added to drinking water to help reduce tooth decay.
The Lexington water plant supplies drinking water to village residents and several neighboring communities. It has just under 3,000 customers.
A downtown apparel shop owner in Lexington said he had no idea Chinese-made fluoride was being added to the water supply.
When he learned of it, he said it gave him cause for concern.
“It’s scary. I can’t help but think of the ‘What if?’” he told The Epoch Times.
One former water plant employee told The Epoch Times, “While I was working there, I saw the Chinese fluoride in 50-pound plastic bags stacked on the floor. I was surprised and appalled.”
Doug Varty, a residential real estate developer whose new subdivision is serviced by Lexington water, said: “It’s wrong. I’m not comfortable with Chinese-made fluoride. Surely we have American products they can use. Buying American is the way to solve the problem. If they have an alternative, they should buy it.”
Village President Ray Mach of Port Sanilac, Michigan, whose community plans to buy its drinking water from Lexington, told The Epoch Times that the use of Chinese-made fluoride makes him uneasy.
“Look at COVID-19. Remember a few years ago, how baby formula was supplemented with melamine in China itself,” Mach said. “We are dependent on China for too many things. We can’t even buy a surgical mask made here anymore.”
By Steven Kovac
