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Press Release 004
#004
Press Release #004 Date: 25th October 2000
for immediate release
Headline: Department of Health 'chicken out' on fluoride
consumption level monitoring.
World Health Organisation advice being ignored by Government.
DoH terrified of consequences of poisoning claims and litigation.
STORY
On the 23rd October, Joanne Walley, Labour MP, Stoke-On-Trent North, asked
the Secretary of State for Health to set out the WHO requirements for
monitoring fluoride levels.
In the reply, published today on the Parliament Internet web-site, Yvette
Cooper (for the DoH) replied that the WHO recommendation on monitoring
fluoride levels was 'advisory' rather than mandatory.
Successive Governments have repeatedly refused to introduce measures to
measure fluoride consumption by populations to determine total fluoride
intake from all sources. This is in direct conflict with the simple
scientific principle of knowing exactly how much fluoride is being consumed
by individuals before exposing them to the *polluted fluorides which are
dumped into public water supplies (*the phosphate fertilizer industry's
toxic waste which contains arsenic, mercury, cyanide, etc.).
For too long the Government has relied on bad or contrived evidence to
support their campaign to fluoridate water. The blatant refusal to monitor
fluoride levels is just another example of how they are running scared of
potential litigation claims as well as having their 'science' exposed as
pure quackery.
Until the Government begins to take a common sense, no nonsense approach to
fluoride consumption, it will continue to be accused of scientific fraud -
an allegation also aimed at the Government's recent 'scientific review' and
made by the Parents with Fluoride Poisoned Children organisation (http://www.bruha.com/fluoride/index.htm).
Below, Joanne Walley's written question and answer;-
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Fluoride
23 Oct 2000 : Column: 91W
Ms Walley: To ask the Secretary of State
for Health if he will set out WHO requirements in respect of (a) monitoring
of fluoride levels, and (b) children in receipt of fluoridated milk. [R]
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Yvette Cooper: Reports from the World
Health Organisation (WHO) contain valuable information, which can helpfully
inform government policy but, unless they are incorporated into United
Kingdom law, their status is advisory rather than mandatory. Technical
guidance on methods of measurement of fluoride, and their interpretation,
and on fluoridation of mild (sic), is included in recent WHO publications
such as Technical Report 846 "Fluorides and oral health" (1994) and
"Monitoring of renal fluoride excretion in community preventive programmes
on oral health" (1999).
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END OF STATEMENT
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