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UK Against Fluoridation

Friday, March 30, 2007

UK - Fears over water plan letter

Fears over water plan
THE 2003 Water Act requires that if requested by a strategic health authority, the utility company in that area must add fluoride to the water supply. The utility companies only agreed to this when they were granted full civil and criminal indemnities by the government. Greater Manchester SHA has made this request of United Utilities, and there will be a consultation period in July and August this year.

Water fluoridation is medication without consent, which is not allowed under European law. The fluoride would be added in the form of fluorosilic acid, obtained as a by product of the phosphate mining industry, contaminated with trace amounts of arsenic, lead, mercury and other contaminants (I have this information from United Utilities and Yara Industrial chemical company). This acid is a highly corrosive dangerous fuming acid, which cannot be put in land fill, or disposed of at sea. However it can be transported on our road network, and put in our water supply.
In 2000 the government commissioned a systematic review of public water fluoridation from the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York. The members of the review team found that although water fluoridation has been in place in the USA for over 50 years, there were no good quality studies for them to use. This means the results of the review are not accurate (I have that information from the centre. They also found that dental fluorosis (a symptom of fluorine poisoning) affected nearly half of children in fluoridated areas, and suggested that more research was necessary.
In 2001 a doctoral thesis at Harvard found that boys who drank fluoridated water when young had a five to seven times greater risk of developing osteosarcoma.

Contact me at choosepurewater@yahoo.co.uk if you share my misgivings.

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