Doug Cross, Director UK Councils Against Fluoridation reference Dr Slott

So, misdirection rears its ugly head yet again. Fluorosilicic acid is added to drinking water for purely medicinal purposes, so fluoridated water is a medicinal water under the terms of the Water Quality Directive. Medicinal waters are specifically excluded from regulation under that Directive, and are therefore medicinal medicinal products under the Medicines Directive. (see Jauncey and Shaw for confirmation of this).

 

Therefore, BS-EN standards for chemicals in drinking water are absolutely irrelevant - fluoridated water is legally no longer drinking water, and is NOT subject to regulation under the rules for that product, the English laws notwithstanding.

 

The only relevant standard that applies to the active infredient in fluoridated water must be that which would - had the MRHA carried out its statutory duty to require registration of FSA as a MEDICINAL substance - be that imposed on its use under the provisions for registration as a medicinal product under the Medicines legislation.

 

I think that you will find that any properly regulated medicinal product - whether as the source material or a finished product - that contained such a high level of potentially harmfull contaminants, would certainly fail to be authorised for medicinal use were the ;law to be properly respected by Parliament and its regulatory lackey. the MHRA. If Dr Slott wishes to divert us by constucting these meaningless arguments it would be helpful if  he were to read just a little more widely than his present library sources indicate, instead of thrashing about in a field in which he appears to have rather limited expertise.

 

Doug Cross, Director UK Councils Against Fluoridation

 

(and if we're playing the qualifications ploy - BSc (Hons), CSci, CBiol, FRSB

Hon AM INstitute of ADvabced Studies, Basel Switzerland !)