Fluoride use in drinking water to continue

ANTI-FLUORIDATION campaigners have reacted with disappointment to suggestions that the Minister for Health’s review committee will recommend that public water supplies continue to be dosed with fluoride.

The Fluoridation Forum's report, due for publication next Tuesday, is expected to recommend that the fluoride dose be reduced rather than discontinued and that further research be carried out into the effects of fluoridation.

The leak to the irishhealth.com medical news website came on the same day that the Medical Research Council in Britain warned that the use of fluoride in toothpaste was so widespread that it was impossible to know how much fluoride people were exposed to in total or to measure the impact of water fluoridation.