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11:55am Thursday 31st December 2009 in
CAMPAIGNERS have lodged a new bid to have fluoride banned from Southampton’s tap water because it is not licensed as a medicine.
Calls have been made for the body responsible for regulating health products to be censured for allegedly breaking the law by not testing the chemicals involved for safety.
Hampshire MEP Caroline Lucas and New Forest East MP Julian Lewis have both written to the parliamentary and health service ombudsman demanding an investigation.
If they succeed, it could mean fluoridation has to be halted across the country while the chemicals involved are thoroughly tested.
The move comes after the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) rejected calls from campaign group Hampshire Against Fluoridation (HAF) to examine whether fluoride needs to be treated in the same way as other medicines.
It believes drinking water is covered by different legislation and is not within its remit.
But the politicians have now urged the ombudsman to step in and order the body to ban fluoridation.
Medicinal European law says any substance “presented as having properties for treating or preventing disease” must be viewed as a medicinal product.
In February, South Central Strategic Health Authority backed plans to add fluoride to the water supplies of nearly 200,000 people living in parts of Southampton, Eastleigh, Totton, Netley and Rownhams.
Speaking ahead of the 2008 public consultation, the city’s director of public health, Andrew Mortimore said he was backing fluoride because it would cut tooth decay.
HAF chairman John Spottiswoode says because health bosses argued fluoridation is needed to improve dental health, they have admitted it is being used as a medicine.
Mr Spottiswoode says it is immoral and illegal to medicate anyone without consent.
He said: “We want the MHRA to obey EU and UK legislation, enforce testing to medicinal standards, plus licensing, of water fluoridation chemicals.
Until that is done all fluoridation in the UK should cease.”
An MHRA spokeswoman said the organisation was confident of its decision.
“The MHRA considers that neither the fluoride added to drinking water nor the resulting fluoridated water is a medicinal product,” she said.
“Claims made for non-medicinal products fall outside the MHRA’s jurisdiction.”
Comments(16)
Condor Man
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1:10pm Thu 31 Dec 09
Unlimited* Service
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1:26pm Thu 31 Dec 09
southy wrote:I wrote on there (although using a different handle) when this poisoning plan was first mooted that there would be many legal attempts to get this mass medication stopped.
clever move.
southy
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1:48pm Thu 31 Dec 09
Unlimited* Service wrote:i been doing some research on this, like trying to find out what type and where is this fluoride is coming from. having no luck so far. the sha refuses to answer this question.
southy wrote:I wrote on there (although using a different handle) when this poisoning plan was first mooted that there would be many legal attempts to get this mass medication stopped.
clever move.
The only sad thing is that these pen pushers are being paid to peddle their poisoning plans.
goard
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2:10pm Thu 31 Dec 09
Stupideditor
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3:59pm Thu 31 Dec 09
Polygonia
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4:26pm Thu 31 Dec 09
southy wrote:It is unlikely that anyone will be able to trace the supplier of the chemical here as I heard that we shall be using up waste chemical from abroad that would otherwise cost that country a fortune to get rid of.
Unlimited* Service wrote:i been doing some research on this, like trying to find out what type and where is this fluoride is coming from. having no luck so far. the sha refuses to answer this question. i even contacted a friend at the glaxo plant in stevenage, and got mail back saying its not that plant supplying this chemical and he had contacted others drug manufacturer's refinerys and none of them have been contacted about supply fluoride to be place in drinking water, what he said at the end of the mail was fear the worse to be on the safe side, and treat it has industrial waste fluoride.southy wrote: clever move.I wrote on there (although using a different handle) when this poisoning plan was first mooted that there would be many legal attempts to get this mass medication stopped. The only sad thing is that these pen pushers are being paid to peddle their poisoning plans.
southy
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4:45pm Thu 31 Dec 09
Polygonia wrote:its got to have paper work some where, i know theres a glut of it in the usa and in france from the nuclear industry.
southy wrote:It is unlikely that anyone will be able to trace the supplier of the chemical here as I heard that we shall be using up waste chemical from abroad that would otherwise cost that country a fortune to get rid of.
Unlimited* Service wrote:i been doing some research on this, like trying to find out what type and where is this fluoride is coming from. having no luck so far. the sha refuses to answer this question. i even contacted a friend at the glaxo plant in stevenage, and got mail back saying its not that plant supplying this chemical and he had contacted others drug manufacturer's refinerys and none of them have been contacted about supply fluoride to be place in drinking water, what he said at the end of the mail was fear the worse to be on the safe side, and treat it has industrial waste fluoride.southy wrote: clever move.I wrote on there (although using a different handle) when this poisoning plan was first mooted that there would be many legal attempts to get this mass medication stopped. The only sad thing is that these pen pushers are being paid to peddle their poisoning plans.
It was somewhere in Europe but not eastern Europe,maybe Holland or Belgium ?
espanuel
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5:18pm Thu 31 Dec 09
freemantlegirl2
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5:52pm Thu 31 Dec 09
Stupideditor wrote:Where is your scientific evidence that fluoride causes this?? absolute hogwash! honestly, if you're going to publish this stuff publish your sources. Cue no doubt the American scaremongering that we usually get in these columns. I admire the people who are fighting against this, and we do have to listen but DON'T scaremonger, FACTS and scientific evidence are needed not a load of old hearsay !
Floride It can also cause cellular dysfunction and damage hormone receptors and other regulatory sites if it makes its way into cell membranes. Of particular importance with regards to autism and other behavioural disorders is the news that fluoride damages enzymes within the brain and lowers IQ's
So as our schools are under perfoming it begs to question if floride isn't already in our water system. Or could it be that our heads of local education are drinking too much bottled water with added floride at their desks. It may also be down to just brushing their teeth to much for the publicity photo's
goard
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6:09pm Thu 31 Dec 09
JimSchultz
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7:55pm Thu 31 Dec 09
JimSchultz
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8:25pm Thu 31 Dec 09
southy
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10:57pm Thu 31 Dec 09
now in the north
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4:04pm Fri 1 Jan 10
JimSchultz
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10:47pm Fri 1 Jan 10
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southy says...
12:01pm Thu 31 Dec 09