Fluoride in water a health hazard

FOLLOWING your recent spread regarding water charges (March 2), I feel citizens should be more concerned over the content of their water rather than the possible cost.

For decades now sodium hexafluorosilicic acids (aka fluoride) has been poured into our water supply without the consent of the people and thereby force-medicating the population. (Has anyone ever been given a prescription for this medicine?)

Fluoride is a waste by-product of the fertiliser and aluminium and phosphate industry and is a Part II Poison under the UK Poisons Act 1972. The fluoride agent used in this state is a fertiliser waste product imported from a fertiliser factory in Holland, where fluoridation is banned by law. It also contains arsenic, mercury, lead and chromium.

According to Indian research published in Biological Trace Element Research (April 2009) blood fluoride levels were significantly higher in patients with osteosarcoma than in control groups. Osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer, occurs mostly in children and young adults.

A 2005 study conducted at the Harvard School of Dental Health found that fluoride in tap water directly contributes to causing bone cancer in young boys. A 2006 Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water damages children’s liver and kidney functions.

In 1992, the New Jersey State Department of Health released the results of a study which found six times more bone cancer among males under the age of 20 living in communities with fluoridated water.

These studies go back decades, showing the link between fluoride and cancer, many of which are contained in Christopher Bryson’s excellent book The Fluoride Deception.

Around 75% of Ireland’s water supply is fluoridated, the most fluoridated country in Europe.

The Irish government has never requested the free informed consent of the population to give them fluoride in their water supply. This is contrary to the Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (1997).

Michael Dorgan

Douglas

Cork