We need to change attitude to fluoridisation of water

I was sorry to read your article "No plans to examine fluoride in public water, despite promise" (June 16).

We need specialists in toxicology (effects of chemicals,) oncology (cancer), neurology (nervous system), endocrinology (hormones) and epidemiology (when looking into the compulsory dosing of everyone with fluoride chemicals. Countless studies found health damage from fluoridation.

But some dentists are now breaking ranks and my own dentist said “fluoride is a poison.” Fluoride waste is too toxic for industry to dump on land or sea, yet the authorities think it’s safe for people’s kidneys to filter it. It’s expensive to get rid of fluoride waste.

When fluoride was put on land in the past, crops and farm animals died and dead or deformed calves were born. In February, leading paediatrician Philip J Landrigan and Prof. Philippe Grandjean, professor of environmental health at Harvard School of Public Health, wrote in The Lancet medical journal that they have classified fluoride as a ‘developmental neurotoxin.’

This is very serious.

A new EU law states that fluorosilicic acid, used for water fluoridation, is not on the list of substances that can be added to drinking water or food. Think of the implications of that for food and drink manufacturers.

A. Wills

Ruislip

Middlesex

England