Fluoride still poisoning our water

14 January 2008

http://www.irishmedicalnews.ie/articles.asp?Category=Letter&ArticleID=20161

The Medical Council’s President, Dr Colm Quigley, states (IMN, 17/12/2007) that for patient safety to be assured, doctors must take a leading role in ensuring appropriate licensing of private health providers.

Whatever about private healthcare, proper licensing is absent from public health medicine here every day. Why? Because the drinking water of three million people, in our view, contains an unlicensed medicine 24/7.

Not alone has the fluoride chemical – in our view a waste by-product of phosphate production – received no product authorisation from the Irish Medicines Board or the European Medicines Agency, but consumers are advised to take as much as they like for a lifetime regardless of their current health status or previous medical history.

Non-licensing apart, fluorosilicic acid is an untrialled substance that is rated by the Physicians Desk Reference between lead and arsenic in toxicity. Unlike naturally-occurring calcium fluoride most of which is excreted, significant amounts of this synthetic form are retained, giving further cause for medical concern.

Mr Robert Pocock,
VOICE
Upper Mount Street
Dublin 2