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UK Against Fluoridation

Friday, May 25, 2007

UK - Cumbrians against Fluoridation

IT WAS uplifting to read of the promotion of breastfeeding in the Maryport area (Times & Star, May 11).
Apart from all the known benefits it brings to mother and child there is an additional incentive to avoid baby formula in this area as it will probably be mixed from a powder with fluoridated water. On the American Dental Association website parents are advised to avoid fluoridated water for baby formula. If a baby is drinking only formula milk at an age when its development and systems are sensitive then it is ill advised to introduce large quantities of the hexafluorosilic acid (by product of the fertiliser industry) which is used to dose our water.
Cumbrians against Fluoridation wrote to health minister Rosie Winterton and asked why this government is failing to give information or advice to parents in fluoridated areas. Her response was that the Department of Health advise breastfeeding and failing that to consider purchasing ready made infant formula. In effect their advise is to avoid using fluoridated water. That information however will only be given to parents on enquiry. The group which is statistically most likely to bottle feed is a low income one. The government's own independent York Review on fluoridation identified that 44 per cent of local children could be receiving excess fluoride but there is no quality research on long term accumulation.
Without that it is negligent to be introducing fluoride into infant bodies. Please contact your MP Tony Cunningham and Jamie Reed and make your own personal request to receive details of the quality research that has been undertaken on long term accumulation (40 years) of artifical fluoride in communities dosed with Hexafluorosilic Acid.
DIANNE STANDEN
Cumbrians against Fluoridation

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