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VOICE calls for an end to water fluoridation
The European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Consumer Products has warned parents to supervise their children to prevent them swallowing fluoride from toothpaste or other oral hygiene products because of the increased risk of dental fluorisis. European advice has indicated that the period of fluoride risk extends from babies to six-year-olds. According to Mr Robert Pocock, […]
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Harney to cut level of fluoride in water
REGULATIONS to reduce the levels of fluoride in the public water supply are to be brought forward shortly – more than four years after a government-commissioned report first called for the measure. Health Minister Mary Harney has confirmed that she is to introduce the regulations following advice from the expert group set up to guide […]
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Govt urged to reconsider fluoridation of water supplies
Dentists are calling on the Irish Government to reconsider the fluoridation of drinking water supplies in light of a new US study linking the practice with bone cancer. Since the 1960s, fluoride has been added to all public water supplies in Ireland with the aim of improving dental hygiene. Several groups, including the Irish Dentists […]
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US fluoridation witness lashes Dept
A leading US scientist has written to the Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Health expressing his frustration at what he sees as a failure to take action on water fluoridation. Dr Paul Connett previously travelled to Ireland on two occasions to testify against the practice and appeared before the Oireachtas Committee in 2004. Since […]
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Water fluoridation – the farce goes on
This whole business has become high farce. At this stage it would appear nobody in their right mind could take it seriously or, for that matter, care less about it. It is, of course, yet another committee, paid for, as always, by you and I, the long-suffering taxpayers. That consummate lover of the home-grown committee […]
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‘Water fluoridation invalidates new EU Medicines Directive in Ireland’
A prominent environmental group has claimed that water fluoridation in Ireland invalidates a new EU Medicines Directive. “A key EU Directive, 2004/ 27/EC, Medicinal Products for Human Use, which came into force across the EU on October 30, will not be capable of being transposed into Irish law until the Government ends drinking water fluoridation. […]
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Anonymous Health Department web posting is final admission of fluoridation’s failure
On 5th May 2005, four and a half years after it was promised, an anonymous and undated response to Dr Connett’s 50 Reasons to oppose fluoridation was posted on the Department of Health’s website under the heading Dental Research. While purporting to be a critical appraisal of the 50 Reasons it is actually an attempt […]
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Call for ban on addition of fluoride to water
A group of Irish dentists has called for a ban on the addition of fluoride to tap water following a US study which found that exposure to fluoride increased the risk of a bone cancer in boys. The rare cancer – osteosarcoma – accounts for about 3 per cent of childhood cancers. The study is […]
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Dentists Demand End to ‘Cancer Risk’ Fluoride in Water
A GROUP of more than 100 dentists have demanded an end to fluoridation of tap water over cancer fears. Their action came yesterday following a study by the Harvard School of Dental Health which found an increased cancer risk in children. The research has already led to the Environmental Working Group, a Washington research organisation, […]
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Fluorosis at ‘epidemic’ levels – dentists
A group of over 100 dentists has severely criticised Health Minister Mary Harney for failing to deal with ‘the near epidemic levels of dental fluorosis’ among Irish children. Dental fluorosis is damage to the enamel of the teeth. It is caused by drinking water with a high fluorine content during the time when teeth are […]
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