British Fluoridation Society calls for allowing the addition of fluorides to foods

16 March 2006 12:57, by nyscof

British Fluoridation Society calls for allowing the addition of fluorides to foods

There is absolutely no good science that indicates that adding fluoride to any food or water reduces tooth decay. Fluoride’s beneficial effects are topical only. Ingestion of fluoride only leads to adverse effects such as tooth and bone damage.

Fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth. A fluoride "deficient" diet does not cause tooth decay.

Soda drinking is probably one of the foremost reasons that tooth decay is on the rise in the U.S. Yet, most sodas are "optimally" fluoridated.

Foods already have a fluoride content that most people are very unaware of. Adding fluoride on purpose would serve absolutely no useful purpose and, in fact, only be harmful to those consuming it.

Consumers can obtain their fluoride from toothpaste, if they want it. It shouldn’t be hidden in foods.

For more info: www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof www.FluorideAction.Net

Fluoridation News Releases http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu

See online : Fluoridation 101

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16 March 2006 13:02, by Colwyn Jones (Dentist)

British Fluoridation Society calls for allowing the addition of fluorides to foods

I am just writing to clarify that currently we can add fluoride to salt, milk and water across Europe and loss of these safe and effective public health measures would directly lead to more tooth decay with the pain, misery, disfigurement and embarrassment it currently causes for children and adults across Europe.

These amendments if accepted would prohibit the use of fluoride in foods and water. Fluoride is the mainstay in the prevention of tooth decay. Removal of teeth is the commonest reason children aged 4 - 10 years are admitted to hospital for a general anaesthetic in Scotland.

For everyone’s sake we need to make sure these amendments are rejected.

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16 March 2006 13:24, by nyscof

British Fluoridation Society calls for allowing the addition of fluorides to foods

There is absolutely no good science that indicates that adding fluoride to any food or water reduces tooth decay. Fluoride’s beneficial effects are topical only. Ingestion of fluoride only leads to adverse effects such as tooth and bone damage.

Fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth. A fluoride "deficient" diet does not cause tooth decay.

Soda drinking is probably one of the foremost reasons that tooth decay is on the rise in the U.S. Yet, most sodas are "optimally" fluoridated.

Foods already have a fluoride content that most people are very unaware of. Adding fluoride on purpose would serve absolutely no useful purpose and, in fact, only be harmful to those consuming it.

Consumers can obtain their fluoride from toothpaste, if they want it. It shouldn’t be hidden in foods.

For more info: www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof www.FluorideAction.Net

Fluoridation News Releases http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu

See online : Fluoridation 101

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16 March 2006 15:37, by Michael W. Easley, DDS, MPH

British Fluoridation Society calls for allowing the addition of fluorides to foods

Fluoride is a naturally occurring trace element that is essential for the proper development of bones and teeth, and for the protection of teeth once they have erupted into the mouth. Fluoride should continue to be made available to the public via appropriate supplementation that can be provided through community water fluoridation, through the addition to milk and/or salt, by fortification of bottled water, or through the use of multivitamin preparations supplemented with fluoride or fluoride tablets. National health agencies are qualified to decide which regimens are appropriate for individual geographic areas and in the context of other preventive practices.

Community water fluoridation remains the safest, most effective, and most efficient way of delivering the benefits of fluoride to a population assuming public water systems are available and technologically capable of maintaining optimum levels. Otherwise, the alternate options as described above need to be preserved

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16 March 2006 17:30, by Bill

British Fluoridation Society calls for allowing the addition of fluorides to foods

I hope the BFS plea is rejected. Through their pressure fluoridation is looming for most of England. Fluoride cannot be added safely to drinking water without knowing the amount of fluoride we are ingesting from so many other sources including medicines, toothpaste, green tea and Teflon coated kitchen ware. Fluorosis is evident now without any additional load. Is fluoridation even a safe procedure when in the USA we read this?

The operator used a piece of plastic to hold a switch open, allowing fluoride to be pumped continuously into tanks, and then left the area to perform other duties. The operator failed to remove the plastic before his shift ended at 8:30 a.m., the report said.

In the UK we remember the Cornish Camelford Aluminium Sulphate Scandal

See online : Worker’s error caused fluoride spill, state says

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17 March 2006 16:33, by Maureen Jones

British Fluoridation Society calls for allowing the addition of fluorides to foods

Aside from the obvious wisdom of NOT using public drinking water as a vehicle to deliver highly cumulative people-treatment substances, consider the following:

1) 90% of tooth decay occurs where fluoridation was never claimed to be effective; the pits and fissures of teeth, i.e., the chewing surfaces of the molars. Thus, for decades, dentists have been applying plastic sealants to these surfaces. A 1929 study by McKay showed that 95% of tooth decay occurred in the pits and fissures of molars.

2) In 1993, the Journal of Public Health Dentistry reported, "50% of US Head Start children have had Baby Bottle Tooth Decay". Fluoridation does not work here either. And nowadays the Sippy Cup is extending this devastating decay of poor children to epidemic levels. The Denver Post, 4/13/04, illustrates this point; Denver has been fluoridated since 1954 and one dentist reports 300 cases a year of this rampant decay. See www.Keepers-of-the-Well.org (Effectiveness - # 7, #9, #10, and #12)

3) Fluoride’s effect is now claimed to be topical (such as toothpaste) rather than by ingestion: “Fluoride incorporated during tooth development is insufficient to play a significant role in caries (cavities) protection.” J Am. Dent. Asso. July 2000. The CDC concurs: see MMWR Oct. 1999.

4) In establishing the lethal dose for test animals (LD50), it took 20 times MORE natural-occurring calcium fluoride to kill 50% of the adult guinea pigs than it took for any of the three water fluoridation chemicals.

5) The Aug. 12, 1992, Journal of the American Medical Association, Utah hip fracture study shows that hip fractures were doubled for women at age 75 (Figure 1) if they drank fluoridated tap water for a 20 year span prior to their menopause when bone turnover is still rapidly depositing the embrittleing fluoride into new bone. The men’s increase in hip fracture was 41% (Figure 2). These figures only reflect the 50% accumulation into adult bone. Imagine what this figure would have been had these women been raised on fluoridated water since infancy wherein fluoride accumulation is 87%!

A book published in 2004, The Fluoride Deception, reveals the details of this 1950’s public health blunder. www.fluoridealert.org posts over a dozen reviews of this long-overdue investigative report. Also, clicking “Take Action” will bring up the nearly 10,000 on-line petition signers in support of the eleven EPA unions who are calling for a nationwide moratorium on fluoridation.

Sincerely, Maureen Jones, Archivist Citizens for Safe Drinking Water 1205 Sierra Ave. San Jose, CA, USA 95126 408-297-8487

See online : Fluoridation

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19 March 2006 01:21, by Elizabeth A McDonagh

British Fluoridation Society calls for allowing the addition of fluorides to foods

Telephone (01302) 785542 Melton Brand Farm Melton Brand DONCASTER South Yorkshire DN5 7EB 18 March 2006

Re Addition of fluoride to foodstuffs to be voted on at the meeting of the Environment, Food Safety and Public health Committee of the European Parliament on a Regulation on Food Additives scheduled on Tuesday 21 March 2006.

It is desperately important to people’s health that no additional fluoride is allowed to be added to human foodstuffs.

Dentists believe that fluoride benefits teeth, though most of the research studies on which they base this belief are unscientifically designed, subjective, not ‘blinded’, ignore the effects of ‘confounding factors’ and have not been subjected to statistical analysis. (Systematic Review on Water Fluoridation by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, U K., 2000) Even if tooth-studies were reliable, they could tell us nothing about the effects of fluoride on other parts of the body.

Fluoride has not been found to have an essential role in humans (Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies on a request from the Commission related to the Tolerable Upper Intake Level of Fluoride Request No EFSA-Q-2003-018) and is probably more accurately termed an anti-metabolite than a nutrient.

Excessive fluoride during tooth-development leads to ‘dental fluorosis’, (damage to teeth and the first sign of fluoride poisoning) experienced by some 48% of children in areas with water fluoridation (12.5% ‘of concern’). (Systematic Review on Water Fluoridation by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, U K., 2000)

“10 to 20 mg per day of fluoride for 10 to 20 years can cause ‘crippling skeletal fluorosis” (Gary Whitford “Metabolism and Toxicity of Fluoride”, Karger 1996)

Credible scientific studies have linked fluoride to digestive disturbances; infertility; hypothyroidism; neurotoxic effects e.g.lowering of IQ and hyperactivity (in rats); bone abnormalities in humans, horses and cattle; osteosarcoma in boys; and arthritis-like pain.

The widespread adverse effects of fluoride reflect the element’s extreme reactivity. Fluorine/fluoride acts at the cellular level, inhibiting a wide range of cell enzymes (including enzymes of the TCA cycle on which energy-production depends) and replacing the iodine essential to the thyroid gland. Its effects are insidious and often unrecognised.

The many sources of fluoride include water, foods and beverages, toothpastes, toiletries pesticide residues, cigarette smoke and air-pollution. The 1ppm of fluoride recommended for the water supply is perilously close to the level which causes harm. The addition of fluoride to food and or water gives absolutely no control of an individual’s total intake, which depends on amount of water drunk and other food and lifestyle choices. People vary in their ability to tolerate fluoride, reflecting their age, genetic make-up, heart and kidney function, nutritional status etc. (A Toxicological Profile by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public health Service Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, TP-91/17, Page 112, Sec. 2.7(Health Impacts), April 1993)

The cattle-feed industry has known for years that fluoride is a cumulative poison and has striven to formulate feeds to contain an absolute minimum of fluoride. (L.T.Lowe “The Student’s Handbook to Animal Nutrition” Littlebury & Co (1949?). It is vital for the health of the human population that fluoride is recognised as a danger and its presence in food and water is minimised.

Elizabeth A McDonagh BSc(Hons), Cert. Ed., Diploma of the College of Natural Nutrition. Former college lecturer in food studies and applied science, retired.

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19 March 2006 14:28, by Elizabeth A McDonagh

British Fluoridation Society calls for allowing the addition of fluorides to foods

Telephone (01302) 785542 Melton Brand Farm Melton Brand DONCASTER South Yorkshire DN5 7EB 18 March 2006

Re British Fluoridation Society call for fluoride to be added to foods.