IT IS quite astonishing how so-called experts can still maintain that fluoride in the water supply will prevent caries in children and maintain that it is perfectly safe despite the mounting evidence to the contrary.

In Europe, cavity rates declined in spite of being 98 per cent fluoridation free. Ireland is 78 per cent fluoridated but their 12-year-old children suffer more cavities than those in fluoride-free countries.

Basel in Switzerland had fluoridated water from 1962 to 2003. After these 41 years, their governmental Health and Social Commission recommended that water fluoridation should be discontinued due to the following reasons:

1. Medical specialists supporting water fluoridation had 40 years trying to prove that it is
beneficial for children’s teeth, but totally failed to do so.

2. Despite the fluoridated water caries has been on the increase in children.

3. The danger of fluorosis especially in children’s bones was played down.

4. Less than one per cent of fluoride in drinking water is used for the “prevention of caries.” More than 99 per cent is used for washing, cleaning, industrial production etc, thus polluting the environment.

In a subsequent referendum, the people of Basel voted by an overwhelming majority to get rid of
the fluoride in their drinking water.

Why do the relevant authorities not listen to the experts and, indeed, the people who will be affected by this unwanted fluoride poison?

“TED”, Name and address supplied.