N.I. - Sodium fluoride is used to make Sarin gas as well as clean teet

An article by anti-fluoridation campaigner Walter Graham provoked a strong response with one reader pointing out that one of toothpaste’s constituent parts is used to make sarin gas. Here are two letters, which have been slightly abridged due to space constraints.

Stephen McMurray, Newtownabbey writes: I recently came across an article in your paper regarding fluoride. It is worth noting that despite the Government saying it is safe, only a few months ago, the Government was accusing the Syrian regime of using chemical weapons of mass destruction and the so-called proof was alleged documents which showed British companies had sold sodium fluoride to Syria. It’s a sad reflection of the media’s warmongering hypocrisy that when a foreign country that the Western powers want to invade use Sodium fluoride it is a chemical weapon and yet, when Western governments use it, it is called medication to improve oral health. Sodium fluoride, is indeed, used in making sarin gas. It is also used in toothpaste. In both cases it is toxic. Hydrofluorosilicic acid, is even more toxic and that is what the British, Irish and American Governments put into the water supply in certain areas to supposedly help with dental hygiene. It would be interesting to see if theChief Dental Officer, Mr Poots or most of the media could explain why, when this is put into toothpaste or the water supply this is not considered to be a chemical weapon attack by Governments against their own people particularly since sodium fluoride is so toxic that there is enough in a tube of toothpaste to kill a small child which is why the FDA in America have a poison warning on the tube. I must commend your paper on printing the excellent article which reveals the real truth about fluoride instead of the government’s propaganda and alerting the public to the dangers of this poison. A campaign to have fluoride removed from toothpaste and banned forever from our water supplies is needed.