Australia - Colin Bishop to challenge fluoridation

21 Jan 09 @ 07:46am by Glenn Roberts
Colin Bishop a CABOOLTURE natural therapist plans to fight water fluoridation by making a complaint to the Crime and Misconduct Commission about the actions of the Premier and Health Minister.
Not only does Colin Bishop plan to target Premier Anna Bligh and Health Minister Stephen Robertson, he intends to lodge a complaint to the CMC against State MPs who spoke against fluoridation three years ago and stated that their electorate did not want it, then voted for it.
Mr Bishop, one of many readers to raise concerns about fluoridation, said fluoride was a poison and the population was being medicated without its consent.
Citing reams of articles to back his claims that fluoridation was dangerous, he said putting it in water supplies was a cunning ploy by the chemical industry to dispose of a by-product of aluminium production.
Mr Bishop, who has a Diploma of Biochemical Medicine from the International Academy of Biochemical Medicine in Germany, said governments had been duped by scientists and the media was biased to the pro-fluoride cause.
He said scientists and governments would not admit they had been wrong about fluoride.
However, a Queensland Health spokesman said a person would have to drink “something like a bathtub-full of fluoridated water in a day” for it to have any detrimental effect.
“Fluoride, like many vitamins and minerals, can be harmful if consumed in large quantities,” the spokesman said.
“The National Health and Medical Research Council has set a safe limit of fluoride consumption at 10 milligrams per day. As drinking water is to be fluoridated at 0.6 to 0.8 milligrams per litre in Queensland, one would not expect the daily consumption to be much greater than 1.6 milligrams per day (food intake would provide only a minimal amount of fluoride).”
The State Infrastructure Department, which is responsible for water supply, said the sodium silicofluoride added to water was extracted from rocks.
State Member for Glass House Carolyn Male said she had no concerns about fluoridation and had given fluoride tablets to her children before they could brush their teeth properly.