Stop Fluoridation Campaign
Fluoride risks to children in Ireland highlighted by new review in Toxicology journal
Press Release, Dublin The risks to children exposed to fluoridated Irish water are highlighted in a scientific review just published in the peer-reviewed journalToxicology [1]. It adds more weight to the call by the report of the Oireachtas Joint Health Committee in 2007 (www.fluoridereports.com) to stop fluoridation to protect children from the irreversible damage to tooth enamel by dental fluorosis.
EU scientific committee further compromised by conflict of interest on fluoride
Press Release 26 February 2010
Its competence already queried at inception in June 2009 by International Society of Doctors for Environment(ISDE) (1), the EU’s Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) which is investigating fluoridation chemicals, has now been accused of a conflict of interest. SCHER’s credibility is thus further compromised by one of its members having actively co-promoted fluoridation in Switzerland. (more…)
Gormley’s fluoride safety study won’t be ready until 2012
Eilish O’Regan, Health Correspondent (Typed from hard copy as not available in e-version of Irish Independent of 13/02/2010) Followed by response by VOICE Stop- Fluoride campaigner Robert Pocock
A study on the safety of fluoride in public drinking supplies will not be available until 2012 – more than five years after Green Party leader John Gormley promised to outlaw the chemical if elected to government. It is already nearly three years since the study was promised in the Programme for Government. (more…)