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UK Against Fluoridation

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Cork doctor unhappy with fluoride impasse

A Cork-based doctor has protested to Health Minister Mary Harney, and Environment Minister, Dick Roche over the delay in implementing the guidelines issued in an expert report on fluoridation four years ago, even though he is opposed to fluoridation in principle.
In a letter to both the Tánaiste and Minister Roche, Bandon GP Dr Philip Michael, who is Chairman of the Irish Doctors Environmental Association, claims the Government is now breaching its own guidelines.
"The Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association, along with many other groups and individuals is opposed to the fluoridation of drinking water on health grounds. The concentration of fluoride has traditionally been set at one part per million,” said Dr Michael.
“The EPA has indicated in the past that this amount has frequently been exceeded. The Fluoridation Forum reported in September 2002, and indicated that for health and safety reasons that this level should be reduced to 0.7ppm. "However recent data suggests that this has not in fact happened, four years later. This means that not alone has the Government insisted on the mass medication of the majority of the Irish population, but they have persisted with the mass medication of an overdose, according to the criteria laid down by their own review board," he said.

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