Dublin, Wed 9th February 2011 Calgary’s ending of fluoridation highlights risks to children in still fluoridated Ireland. The 10 to 3 vote by Calgary City councillors to stop fluoridating the drinking water of 1.1million residents raises yet more doubts about fluoridation in Ireland, the only EU member state to permit widespread fluoridation of drinking water [...]
A review of the case against fluoride: how hazardous waste ended up in our drinking water and the bad science and powerful politics that keep it there by Connett P, Beck J, and Micklem HS summarises the historical, political, ethical, toxicological, and epidemiological scientific data behind drinking water fluoridation. The book concludes that, if proposed [...]
Despite US government climb down, lower fluoride levels will not protect kids from spotted teeth. Four in ten American kids have spotted or splotchy teeth due to excessive fluoride, says the US health watchdog and fervent promoter of fluoridation, the Center for Disease Control (‘CDC’). On 7th January 2011 it proposed nearly halving the amount [...]
Press release, Dublin July 12th By describing fluoridation as ‘crude and ineffective systemic fluoride treatment without a detectable threshold for dental and bone damage’ to prevent dental caries, Europe’s scientific committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) has confirmed the claim of European doctors in June 2009. They stated that fluoridation is medical treatment and [...]
From the Irish Medical News: A leading GP has made a report to the Eudra Vigilance Medicinal Product Database (EVMPD) for alleged adverse reactions arising from the intake by several thousands of Irish children of fluoridated national drinking water supplies. Tweet Tweet
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 1st 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If fluoride hastens water pipe corrosion, what is it doing to our children’s health? Monday, January 25, 2010 THE recent hardship caused by burst water pipes highlighted the precarious condition of our water supply network. That approximately 40% of all water in Ireland is lost in leakage was widely publicised in recent weeks when so [...]
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Press Release, Dublin, Wednesday 25th November 2009 The formal dialogue session on Risk Assessment between stakeholders and the EU’s scientific committees on Nov 20th in Brussels heard criticism of the Commission, as the risk manager, for failing to protect children from fluoride risks. Only in Ireland and parts of the UK are fluoridation chemicals allowed in [...]
