Tasmania - Ditch fluoride

Aug. 4, 2014, midnight

Why, after 50 years plus of fluoridation, is our dental health not getting better? Perhaps an overuse of sugar is to blame.

In 1956, Tasmania became the first Australian state with fluoridation. Shame!

Any product we eat or drink containing water contributes to overdose. It is absorbed into our skin when we wash. Fluoride is a poison we can do without.

China does not use it as it says it is too toxic, yet it sells it to the US where it is put into the water.

Many countries and some Australian towns have done away with fluoridation - what is holding Tasmania back?

AAFKE DOWNEY