UK - Southampton Daily Echo

Almost 9,000 names on fluoride petition
NEARLY 9,000 people have now signed a petition against fluoride being added to the tap water of thousands of homes across Hampshire.
(Dozens of new signatures were added at a special drop-in session in Eastleigh. Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne, prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for Eastleigh Maria Hutchings and several Eastleigh councillors were among those who signed up on Saturday.
Visitors to the event at the Wells Place Centre were also able to get a copy of the DVD which gives scientific evidence from some of the world's leading experts on fluoride.
Organisers Hampshire Against Fluoridation are planning to travel to Downing Street early next month to present it to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Later the same day they hope to meet with the All Party Parliamentary Group against Fluoridation.
Health chiefs plan to add fluoride to the tap water of almost 200,000 Hampshire residents after South Central Strategic Health Authority approved it as a way to improve children's teeth.
Two-thirds of Southampton will be affected as well as areas of Eastleigh, Totton, Netley and Rownhams.

Poisoning our water
I AM writing again about fluoride being added to our water supplies.
This is such a crazy idea, for the sake of a few children's teeth we are being forced to have a toxic waste added to our water. The SHA have admitted that it is a hexafluorosili-cic acid.
It is a toxic and corrosive industrial waste by-product derived from the scrubbings of the factory chimneys of the super-phosphate fertiliser industry. Fluorides are medically categorised as protoplanic poisons and are used in commercial rat poisons.
It is more toxic than lead and only marginally less poisonous than arsenic, and we all know about the efforts to remove lead from drinking water supplies over the last century. Worse still, the hexafluorosilicic acid used is not a pure compound of medical quality but is itself contaminated with other poisons, such as arsenic and cancer-causing heavy metals such as cadmium and even mercury.
So come on SHA, who are you kidding that fluoride reduces tooth decay in under 12s? Recent large-scale studies in the USA, Canada and New Zealand show this to be an inaccurate claim. Even in the UK, studies have shown there is no difference in incidents of decayed, missing or filled teeth between fluoridated Gateshead and socially comparable and unfluoridated Liverpool.
Stop using children's teeth as an excuse to add fluoride to our water. Please try again to listen to what the people are saying, it goes something like this: "We don't want it. We don't need it and as far as we are concerned, we are not having it".
If, after all this, you stupidly go ahead, then the people will not be paying for poison (hope you are listening too Water Board).
MRS KINCH, Southampton.