IRISH MEDICAL JOURNAL CONFIRMS FLUORIDE DAMAGE!

A paper published in the most recent issue of the prestigious Irish Medical Journal confirms fluoride damage to health. The paper, titled "Water Fluoridation – Pollutant or Panacea", authored by dentist Dr. Don Mac Auley highlights both dental and health damage. Dr. Mac Auley cites international, scientific studies and information accessed under the Freedom of Information Act 1997 in Ireland.

A panel of Irish Doctors peer-reviewed the paper and the readership includes most doctors in Ireland. Fluoride Free Water takes this opportunity to congratulate the Irish Medical Organisation in raising this important issue with their members. It is pivotal and timely that doctors become aware of the health risks of water fluoridation.

A most important point raised by the paper is the fluoride overdosing of infants. Dr. Mac Auley calculated, using the British Medical Association’s figures for safe fluoride levels in infants, that bottle-fed infants are receiving unsafe fluoride levels in their daily feed.

He estimated that in Ireland, where parents are using fluoridated tap water for formula feed, new-borns are receiving three times the safe dose of fluoride and three-month olds nearly six times the safe limit.

Therefore, it is no surprise that dental fluorosis currently affects 50% of the population. It is now time the Minister of Health ceased this outdated unscientific mass-medication of the Irish people.

Fluoride Free Water welcomes Dr. Mac Auley’s conclusion that, "water fluoridation is now unsafe, ineffective and undemocratic".

For copy of editorial in Irish Medical Journal:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~fluoridefree/campaign_update/irish_medical_journal-Sept2000.htm