Distorted debate on fluorideApril 10, 2006

In his letter of April 6, 2006, Dr. Steve Arthur, director of the Office of Oral Health in the Vermont Health Department, tells us that fluoride purposely added to drinking water is not what the National Academies' National Research Council (NRC) was referring to in their landmark 560-page study, released on March 23, 2006, on the health impacts of fluoride consumption. The study, commissioned by the EPA, on the overall safety of fluoride in tap water, reports that the EPA's current standards for fluoride in tap water are inadequate to protect the public's health.


This letter is well worth reading.