FLUORIDE FRAUD AT DUBLIN DENTAL HOSPITAL.
PRESS RELEASE 7/8/2001
Fluoride Free Water have uncovered a four year old study carried out at Dublin Dental Hospital which exposes the fraud surrounding water fluoridation in Ireland. The study which investigated the fluoride dose of bottle-feeding infants concluded, "(b)aby formulae should be reconstituted with non-fluoridated water".(1) They also called for "more research work (to) be undertaken on the total fluoride dose and the impications for child health both dental and systemic". This study, although presented to a health board conference, has never been published. The conclusions have never been made public and parents who are using tap water to make up infant formula feed are overdosing their children with fluoride.
Dr. Don Mac Auley, Dental Adviser to Fluoride Free Water, explains, “there was no follow up study and the Department of Health continues to state that we are all safe and prescription by thirst is scientific. It is shocking to think that they have known of this problem for many years and done nothing. In my experience of dental fluorosis (fluoride damage to teeth) in my dental practice, 90% of children/adolescents have a history of bottle-feeding for longer than 6 months. Doctors know nothing about this. I had a patient in recently whom, after reading a newspaper article, spoke with her GP and he had never heard of any problems with fluoride and infants”.
Recently, M.E.P., Avril Doyle raised the issue in the Senate.(2) Expressing growing public concern about
fluoride, Ms. Doyle demanded, "the Minister of State should
issue a directive to the effect that fluoridated tap water should
no longer be used in the reconstitution of infant formula". In response to Ms
Doyle's concerns, Dr Wayne Anderson, chief food science
specialist with the Food Safety Authority (FSAI), revealed that a
sub-committee of the Forum on Fluoridation is carrying out a risk
assessment on use of fluoridated water to make infant formula.
Fluoride Free Water finds it surprising that a press release from
the FSAI, one year after the above study, advocates the use of
tap water over bottled water for formula feed, "(m)ineral
waters may have a high solute content, may contain inadequate
fluoride and should not be used to mix formula or as an infant
drink".(3) This shows the level of ignorance surrounding
this issue. Ms. Doyle found it
"inexplicable" that there has never been a risk
assessment into infant fluoride levels. Ms. Doyle will find it
even more "inexplicable" that Professor John Clarkson,
a member of this Forum sub-committee, is Dean of Dublin Dental
School where the above study was carried out all those years ago.
Professor Clarkson recently stated, "the issue of total
fluoride exposure needs to be addressed and monitored".(4)
However, he failed to mention that a study, carried out at his
Dental Hospital, had declared Irish fluoridated tap water unsafe
for Irish infants. Fluoride Free Water
finds the truth decay surrounding water fluoridation scandalous
and unacceptable. The forum on fluoridation is unbalanced,
unaccountable and continues to mislead the public and put all our
health at risk. We are now calling for an independent public
enquiry to investigate the shocking truth behind this mass-medication.
Protect our youngest citizens and stop fluoridation immediately. See conclusions of Dental Hospital study. References: 1. To examine the Fluoride content of popular formulae and
milks and to study the Fluoride dose that infants are receiving
from these various sources. Dublin Dental Hospital 1997-1998. http://homepage.eircom.net/~fluoridefree/ddhstudy.htm 2. Seanad Debates Official report 19/6/2001. http://www.gov.ie/debates-01/s19june/sect4.htm 3. Infant nutrition affects
childhood illness and adult diseases. Food Safety Authority of
Ireland report recommends feeding changes. 30 August 1999.
Search "Fluoride" http://www.fsai.ie/search_index.htm 4. Minutes of meeting of
the Forum on Fluoridation on 10 May 2001 http://www.fluoridationforum.ie/forum_minutes7.htm