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NO TO FLUORIDATION OF OUR WATER!
3rd July 2003The Government has decided to support health authorities who want fluoridation of water by instructing water companies to provide fluoridation. East Kent Green Party has written to all East local authorities opposing this move, because of increasing scientific and medical concerns about fluoridation. The councils are being asked to approve a draft motion opposing fluoridation. Steve Dawe comments:
"The Green Party notes that the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine(1) states:'Article 5 - General rule: An intervention in the health field may only be carried out after the person concerned has given free and informed consent to it. This person shall beforehand be given appropriate information as to the purpose and nature of the intervention as well as on its consequences and risks.' In consequence, our local authorities have a duty to protect the public from medication to which they have not given their consent.
"We note that the chief causes of tooth decay are excessive consumption of sugar and inadequate oral hygiene. Mass studies in Canada, India, New Zealand and the USA have challenged the view that water fluoridation is effective in reducing tooth decay; and the government's own York Review concluded that there was "little evidence" that fluoridation would reduce dental health inequalities; (3) We note that fluoridehas beenlinked to a wide range of medical problems including cancer, thyroid trouble, irritable bowel syndrome and dental fluorosis." END c 255 words
FURTHER INFORMATION: Steve Dawe on 01233 645167 or 07904 382203 OR 0207 378 0436 Mondays and Wednesdays. Notes: 1. Council of Europe, 1997; 2. SEE Truth Decay: Challenging New Labour's propaganda on water fluoridation, http://www.greenparty.org.uk/reports/2003/TRUTH%20DECAY.htm; 3. It was reported in the Sunday Times 11 May 2003 that the Water Bill will contain proposals regarding a change in the law to require water companies to fluoridate where the health authority wants this.
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