UK - Call for the government to test fluoride properly
Call for the government to test fluoride properly
Hampshire Against Fluoridation (HAF) has written to call on the Department of Health to step in to require that fluoridation chemicals are tested properly to medicinal standards.
John Spottiswoode, Chairman of HAF, said: “Fluoridation has never been tested and approved to medical standards (possibly cynically because everyone knows it will fail). This lack of high quality testing of fluoride, which is STILL the case after 50 years, means that literally millions are being experimented on with a substance that has NEVER been properly tested. Mounting epidemiological evidence of harm continues to be pushed to one side by the authorities because ‘it is not proof’. Association does not prove causation, never mind how many studies show health problems. The question is how long this medical scandal can continue, the unsound defence of fluoride being very reminiscent of the early days of the defence of nicotine, lead, and asbestos. ”
A recent study by the David Shaw of the University of Glasgow concluded that ““… the status quo rests on the legal fiction that fluoridated water does not constitute a medication.”[ref 1] Despite the fact that fluoride is being used to achieve a medical change (fewer cavities), and millions of people drink it every day, the authorities continue to pretend that it is not being used for medicinal purposes. This is despite the fact that Lord Jauncey ruled in 1982 that it is absolutely clear that fluoridation of water is being used to seek to achieve a change in the health of people and this by any sensible definition is a medicinal use.
John Spottiswoode added “Another consequence of this shambolic failure to protect the public from fluoride by not testing it properly is the fact that fluoride chemicals added to water are not to medicinal standards. Instead they are to industrial standards, as befits an industrial waste product and not something consumed on a large scale by humans. This means that several toxins can be (and are) included with the fluoride, which whilst only at theoretically low levels are still worryingly high for the level of consumption by people every day over the long term. It is the duty of the Department of Health to look after the population’s health and this is a very serious loop-hole that means the population is NOT being protected. Continuing with a legal fiction is not a moral or defensible course to take and it should not need a legal case to rule on this again. “
“Water fluoridation should not be extended until the fluoride chemicals have been properly tested for their effects on the whole body and not just on the teeth. These chemicals should also not be added to the water with their level of toxins which goes against the policy of trying to eliminate such things as arsenic from water. In Hampshire and Southampton we should not be forced to drink water polluted by these toxins as well as by fluoride. We know there are serious health problems with fluoride from a wide range of good quality studies, and it is high time that the Department of Health required medicinal levels of testing. The authorities plan to force feed us all a medication that has not been tested properly, is known to be a toxin and is supplied with other toxins included.”
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References:
See the paper by David Shaw of the University of Glasgow: http://mli.sagepub.com/content/12/1/11
In 1983, in the Edinburgh Court of Session, Lord Jauncey ruled that fluoride, in whatever form it is ultimately purchased by the public, is a medicine. The judge sustained the Petitioner’s plea in law that fluoridation for the purpose of reducing the incidence of dental caries was ULTRA-VIRES the respondent, and granted the interdict on this point and on this point alone. All her other pleas were rejected.
Hampshire Against Fluoridation (HAF) has written to call on the Department of Health to step in to require that fluoridation chemicals are tested properly to medicinal standards.
John Spottiswoode, Chairman of HAF, said: “Fluoridation has never been tested and approved to medical standards (possibly cynically because everyone knows it will fail). This lack of high quality testing of fluoride, which is STILL the case after 50 years, means that literally millions are being experimented on with a substance that has NEVER been properly tested. Mounting epidemiological evidence of harm continues to be pushed to one side by the authorities because ‘it is not proof’. Association does not prove causation, never mind how many studies show health problems. The question is how long this medical scandal can continue, the unsound defence of fluoride being very reminiscent of the early days of the defence of nicotine, lead, and asbestos. ”
A recent study by the David Shaw of the University of Glasgow concluded that ““… the status quo rests on the legal fiction that fluoridated water does not constitute a medication.”[ref 1] Despite the fact that fluoride is being used to achieve a medical change (fewer cavities), and millions of people drink it every day, the authorities continue to pretend that it is not being used for medicinal purposes. This is despite the fact that Lord Jauncey ruled in 1982 that it is absolutely clear that fluoridation of water is being used to seek to achieve a change in the health of people and this by any sensible definition is a medicinal use.
John Spottiswoode added “Another consequence of this shambolic failure to protect the public from fluoride by not testing it properly is the fact that fluoride chemicals added to water are not to medicinal standards. Instead they are to industrial standards, as befits an industrial waste product and not something consumed on a large scale by humans. This means that several toxins can be (and are) included with the fluoride, which whilst only at theoretically low levels are still worryingly high for the level of consumption by people every day over the long term. It is the duty of the Department of Health to look after the population’s health and this is a very serious loop-hole that means the population is NOT being protected. Continuing with a legal fiction is not a moral or defensible course to take and it should not need a legal case to rule on this again. “
“Water fluoridation should not be extended until the fluoride chemicals have been properly tested for their effects on the whole body and not just on the teeth. These chemicals should also not be added to the water with their level of toxins which goes against the policy of trying to eliminate such things as arsenic from water. In Hampshire and Southampton we should not be forced to drink water polluted by these toxins as well as by fluoride. We know there are serious health problems with fluoride from a wide range of good quality studies, and it is high time that the Department of Health required medicinal levels of testing. The authorities plan to force feed us all a medication that has not been tested properly, is known to be a toxin and is supplied with other toxins included.”
Ends
References:
See the paper by David Shaw of the University of Glasgow: http://mli.sagepub.com/content/12/1/11
In 1983, in the Edinburgh Court of Session, Lord Jauncey ruled that fluoride, in whatever form it is ultimately purchased by the public, is a medicine. The judge sustained the Petitioner’s plea in law that fluoridation for the purpose of reducing the incidence of dental caries was ULTRA-VIRES the respondent, and granted the interdict on this point and on this point alone. All her other pleas were rejected.
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