Australia fight continues.
Wed, Jan 04, 2006
No guarantee fluoride safe
I WRITE in response to the “Forum seeking fluoride backers” article (The Border Mail, December 14). This article indicated that any professional who supported the use of fluoride in our water supply was invited to participate in a debate.
While this offer still stands, it might be worthwhile noting that unless those who meet the challenge are geneticists, toxicologists, professors of chemistry or of a similar degree, they will not be able to stand by any promise they may make to the people in regard to the safety of fluoride in our drinking water.
It is also worth noting that two of the three organisations who were indicated in the fluoridation booklet as supporting the use of fluoride in our drinking water do not in fact conduct any scientific research into the effects of fluoride.
The Australian Dental Association and the Australian Medical Association base all of their decisions and policies on the safety and use of fluoride on research data of other organisations. So when it comes to the crunch, they will be able to say “well its not our fault, we were just quoting such and such”. The Australian Medical Association has stated that it neither supports nor contests the use of fluoride.
The third organisation which is quoted as being in support of fluoridation is the World Health Organisation. But the WHO book, Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Humans describes chemicals used in fluoridation in Australia as being “an insecticide fungicide, bactericide, a rodenticide (rat poison), to worm pigs and as an insecticide on lawns”. The WHO also warned in 1994 that “dental and public health authorities should be aware of the total fluoride exposure in the population before introducing any such additional fluoride program”.
No such study is to be done for North East Water as stated by the spokesperson for the Victorian Department of Human Services, Bram Alexander, in The Border Mail on December 7 last year. So much for the verbal promises that fluoride is safe for humans I can guarantee that not one person with any scientific standing who is directly responsible for fluoridation will give a written promise that fluoride in our drinking water is safe and therefore will not harm any human being.
M.L. EDGAR
spokesperson for the Fluoride Education Awareness Team,Wodonga.
No guarantee fluoride safe
I WRITE in response to the “Forum seeking fluoride backers” article (The Border Mail, December 14). This article indicated that any professional who supported the use of fluoride in our water supply was invited to participate in a debate.
While this offer still stands, it might be worthwhile noting that unless those who meet the challenge are geneticists, toxicologists, professors of chemistry or of a similar degree, they will not be able to stand by any promise they may make to the people in regard to the safety of fluoride in our drinking water.
It is also worth noting that two of the three organisations who were indicated in the fluoridation booklet as supporting the use of fluoride in our drinking water do not in fact conduct any scientific research into the effects of fluoride.
The Australian Dental Association and the Australian Medical Association base all of their decisions and policies on the safety and use of fluoride on research data of other organisations. So when it comes to the crunch, they will be able to say “well its not our fault, we were just quoting such and such”. The Australian Medical Association has stated that it neither supports nor contests the use of fluoride.
The third organisation which is quoted as being in support of fluoridation is the World Health Organisation. But the WHO book, Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Humans describes chemicals used in fluoridation in Australia as being “an insecticide fungicide, bactericide, a rodenticide (rat poison), to worm pigs and as an insecticide on lawns”. The WHO also warned in 1994 that “dental and public health authorities should be aware of the total fluoride exposure in the population before introducing any such additional fluoride program”.
No such study is to be done for North East Water as stated by the spokesperson for the Victorian Department of Human Services, Bram Alexander, in The Border Mail on December 7 last year. So much for the verbal promises that fluoride is safe for humans I can guarantee that not one person with any scientific standing who is directly responsible for fluoridation will give a written promise that fluoride in our drinking water is safe and therefore will not harm any human being.
M.L. EDGAR
spokesperson for the Fluoride Education Awareness Team,Wodonga.
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