UK - Daily Echo - letter
Taxes will pay for fluorideM DARNELL (Letters, December 5) asks about the fluorosilicic acid used in the controversial treatment of water. The answer is, yes the supplier does get paid by us the taxpayer. The fluorosilicic acid used In the UK and Ireland is believed to be imported from phosphate fertiliser operations in Europe who themselves do not practise fluoridation.
Fluorine gas was historically vented out of phosphate fertiliser chimneys causing harm to people and animals. Nowadays it is trapped in water, forming an acid solution contaminated with two per cent of heavy metals that are toxic at a billionth part. This the chief medical officer considers is fit enough for us to drink when diluted to one part per million.
The British Fluoride Society which received over a £1,000,000 from the taxpayer to promote fluoridation calls this a "co-product".
Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson announced in 2008 that the Department of Health would, over the next three years, make £42 million available to Strategic Health Authorities In England and Wales for new fluoridation schemes. This is now on hold due to the opposition from Southampton.
BILL EDMUNDS, Cadnam
posted by Bill at
10:07 AM
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I wrote to United Utilities, who told me that Yara Uk supply their fluoridation chemical, fluorosilicic acid. Yara will supply a product information sheet, if you email them, which says that fluorosilicic acid is a 'co'- product of extracting phosphate fertilizer from apatite rock.
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