FAN gives support to stop fluoridation in Southampton

FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
FAN
FAN Bulletin 1047: Professionals ask SHA board members to reject fluoridation. Part 4
Feb 14, 2009
We print out four more statements of concern which have been sent to the Southampton (UK) Strategic Health Authority (SHA). They come from a professor from Scotland; a radio host; a former Federal Health Minister from Australia; a grass roots organizer and a university professor from Massachusetts. I think you will agree that based on what you are reading from these people, who have all signed the Professionals' Statement, that they are highly qualified and/or experienced people, who have thought deeply about this issue. There is much ammunition in their statements - both individually and collectively - to help all of us fight this battle. Meanwhile, the national significance of the decision in Southampton is discussed in the Feb 15 issue of The Observer, New fight to stop mass fluoridation.

While the number of signers continues to rise on the Professionals' Statement (we are now up to 2,143) we still need many more. I have prepared an appeal for professionals in Europe to sign on. Do you have any colleagues or friends in Europe who might be willing to add their moral support and sign this statement? If you do we will gladly forward a copy of this appeal to you so that you can send it to them. Please email us at info@fluoridealert.org and we will send you a copy of this appeal.

Paul Connett
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A statement from Professor Henry Micklem from Scotland

Dr Geoffrey Harris, Chairman, NHS South Central

Dear Dr Harris,

I am emeritus professor of immunobiology at the University of Edinburgh and have been studying the literature on the effects of fluoride on health for several years, with particular reference to the pros and cons of water fluoridation. Living in Scotland, I did not contribute to the formal consultation. However, the decision in Southampton, whichever way it goes, has more than local significance and I hope you will allow me to put an oar in at this late stage..............

H S Micklem D Phil (Oxon)
Emeritus Professor of Imunobiology
University of Edinburgh

A statement from former Australian Federal health minister Dr. Douglas Everingham
Dear decision-makers,
I'm advised by Professor Paul Connett that you are soon to decide whether to support the official policy of increasing fluoride content of public water supplies in the Southampton region.
I ask you to resist this increasingly discredited policy. Here's why. ..........

Douglas N. Everingham MB, BS
5 Eriboll Close
MIDDLE PARK QLD 4074
Australia

A statement from Ralph Ryder, editor of Toxcat, and director of Communities Against Toxics, UK

Dear Members of the Southampton Strategic Health Authority (SHA)

Have you ever met someone whose lack of dental hygiene has made you feel sick?..........
Ralph Anthony Ryder
Director, Communities Against Toxics
PO Box 29, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, CH66 1NU

A statement from Michael Dolan, PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Dear Mr. Howell et al.,

Hope you are well. It is my understanding that the Southampton Health Authority is contemplating a program of water fluoridation for the city of Southampton. I am writing to let you know that this practice has come under considerable criticism in the USA in light of recent findings that fluoride is a neurotoxin and increases the risk of bone cancer in young boys...........

Michael F. Dolan, Ph.D.
Research Professor
University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA