Australia - Fluoride caution

Fluoride caution
MARIE LOW
31 Aug, 2011 04:00 AM
TENTERFIELD Shire Council has heard a warning about sodium fluoride being a “toxic substance” as the NSW Department of Health issues reassurances it is a safe additive for the town’s water supply.
Natural health clinician and former Tenterfield nurse Margaret Vincent made a presentation to council last week, stating sodium fluoride was not a natural substance.

“The whole world has been had, and so have you,” Mrs Vincent told council. “If a child ingests five or four tablets of sodium fluoride, it is lethal.”

Mrs Vincent said sodium fluoride was a waste product of the aluminium, fertiliser and atomic industries, and had been banned as a water additive in a number of countries, including China, which will supply Tenterfield with its fluoride.

“As a former Tenterfield resident, I fought 30 years ago to keep fluoride out of Tenterfield’s water – and now, despite 80 per cent of the town voting against it, it seems Tenterfield will be forced to have it,” she said.

Mrs Vincent said she believed Tenterfield people should refuse to pay their water rates “en masse, as it would be too hazardous, and we are being medicated against our wishes”..........