UK - Letter

Letter which appeared in the UK Doncaster newspaper The Starr Oct 2018 written by Cynthia Bagchi

Fluoride move is 'negligent'.

I am responding to the article in your newspaper recently on the possibility of fluoridating Doncaster's water supply. After 20 years of researching this topic I have learnt that

to put a chemical in the water that is not needed to make the water clean is unsound,

to put an unnecessary chemical in the water that is known , at small levels, to cause harm of any sort, to the function of the human body is negligent,

to put a toxic waste chemical/product from industry, that has never been tested for safety, at levels known to cause harm is willfully negligent.

Unfortunately this has happened in some countries and after over 60 years the harmful results are plain to see with data collected from two  countries, the USA and Ireland.  The citizens of these two fluoridated countries now have the poorest health and still have poor teeth.

Do the people of Doncaster really want this punishment when there are so many ways to improve oral health.