Infants should not be given fluoridated water

HERE we are in the only nationally fluoridated country in Europe applauding the good judgment of the American Dental Association (ADA) and the British Fluoridation Society (BFS) for advising parents to use water with little or no fluoride for infant formula only to learn from these two authorities (Letters, October 27) that they consider the risk of fluorosis to babies is negligible.

But if the risk to babies is so low, why then did these authorities go to the trouble of issuing guidelines in the first place?

The truth is that following new research last year, the risk of fluorosis is now perceived to start at infancy and not later, as previously believed.