Water Campaign

Press release

Dublin, 11 June 2010

Clane GP, Dr Andrew Rynne, alerted the European medicines regulator (EMEA), and all other national competent medicinal authorities across the EU, on 1^st June 2010 to the adverse reaction of dental fluorosis in the paediatric population in Ireland. The alert was issued under rules governing adverse reactions to medicines in Europe (EudraCT) and is linked to the use of the industrial chemical hydrofluosilicic acid in drinking water. Administration of hydrofluosilicic acid is not medically authorised and continues despite flagrant infringement of theClinical Trials Directive (2001/20/EC). Recital 18 of this directive requires the Irish medicines regulator to issue a notice of suspension to cease the trial because its continuation involves an unacceptable level of risk. (more…)

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.

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To mark World Water Day today March 22nd, VOICE and other environmental groups from around Ireland today recreated a beach spoiled by pollution outside Leinster House, to highlight the lack of action to protect Ireland’s rivers, lakes and coastal waters.

World Water Day is the day new water plans for the protection of Ireland’s waters were due to be sent to Europe. The objective of these River Basin Management Plans1 is to pull together the numerous strands of water legislation and to manage water in an integrated way to prevent pollution and degradation of our rivers, lakes and bays. Environmental umbrella group the Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) 2 says the plans fail to do this.

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