 Walter Graham Northern Ireland Councils Against Fluoridation |
Graham: "You're getting fluoride not only from the water systems, you're also getting it from other things. Once it's in the water supply it's also in your soup; if it's in the water it's also in your beer; if it's in the water it's also in your boiled potatoes. It's in everything that is produced or manufactured using that water supply. So you're getting an increased amount from all these other sources. But that's not the only source you get fluoride from. You also get fluoride from a large number of pharmaceutical products like your toothpastes, your mouthwashes." | ||
 Dr. Don Mac Auley Dentist |
Mac Auley: "When I prescribe a medication for a patient, I know the patient's age, their weight, I know their medical history, and I know whether they're allergic or not to a drug. When you consider water fluoridation, it's purely prescribed on thirst. You don't know the individual's weight or age, [you] don't know the individual's medical history. That is, [you] don't know if they are taking other drugs, you don't know if there is an underlying medical condition, and finally, and very importantly, you don't know whether that individual is allergic to fluoride or not. You can consider this as a very crude method of medication. It's very unscientific." | ||
 John Gormley TD Green Party |
Gormley: "There's no way that you can regulate the dosage so, for instance, a baby is getting the same dosage as an adult. Now we know that that should not be allowed ." | ||
 Dr. Hardy Limeback Preventive Dentistry University of Toronto |
Limeback: "There are a growing number of patients terribly upset with their teeth effected by fluorosis. In fluoridated areas throughout the world, the incidence of very mild fluorosis is as high as 80%." | ||
Walter Graham Northern Ireland Councils Against Fluoridation |
Graham: "If it [fluoride] can totally change your tooth structure, you're teeth are the only visible part of your skeleton, it must also be doing damage to your skeleton. And the skeleton is much more absorbing than are the teeth. And over a liftetime of consumption, we don't know what this damage is going to be, but that's why they're looking at hip fracture rates, that's why they're looking at osteoporosis, because they know that if it's accumulating in the teeth, it's accumulating in the bones." | ||
 Mary Hilary Fluoride Free Water |
20/20: "One
of the reasons why the [Minister for Health's]
fluoridation forum appears very timely is because there
are an increasing number of individuals, groups, and
organizations in Ireland publicly challenging the
rationale behind the water fluoridation program. Within
the last year a citizens group, Fluoride
Free Water, have come
together due to their mutual concern about the issue. Mary Hilary: "The Fluoride Free Water group came together in 1999. We're a group of concerned citizens who are worried about the harmful effects of drinking and using and cooking with fluoridated water. We're not a militant group, and we're not politically affiliated in any way. The main objectives of Fluoride Free Water are to educate ourselves and to raise public awareness about this serious health issue; to ask the Minister for Health to please stop fluoridating the water as of today; [and] to ask him to iniatate independent environmental and health studies on every living thing in the country that's using [fluoridated] water to live." |
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| For further information please contact Fluoride Free Water at fluoridefree@eircom.net |