Fluoride in Water Mottles Babies' Teeth

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Dental Association Says Fluoride in Water Mottles Babies' Teeth

 

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The American Dental Association, in a recently

published position statement, says that mothers

should be careful not to prepare baby foods with

fluoridated water from the tap, as the fluoride

contained in it could be bad for developing

babies' teeth:

 

" Recent studies cited in the report of the

National Research Council (NRC), Fluoride in

Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's

Standards, have raised the possibility that

infants could receive a greater than optimal

amount of fluoride through liquid concentrate or

powdered baby formula that has been mixed with

water containing fluoride during a time that

their developing teeth may be susceptible to

enamel fluorosis. "

 

To be sure, the statement adds that fluoride

prevents tooth decay, but admits that too much of

the stuff is not good and can damage tooth

enamel. The association also points out that

" fluorosis is not a disease but rather affects

the way that teeth look " .

 

The water in the US is heavily fluoridated with

fluorosilicic acid, an industrial by-product of

phosphate production and there are quite some

problems that the toxic mineral brings for human

and animal health.

 

Ireland is one of the few European countries

where water is routinely fluoridated in an effort

to " stop tooth decay " , yet the problem persists.

Other EU countries have recognized that adding

fluoride causes more problems than it solves and

stopped the practice.

 

 

 

Robert Pocock, the spokesman of VOICE of Irish

Concern for the Environment, an association which

campaigns against water fluoridation, says that

fluorosilicic acid is not a pharmaceutical

product and has never been approved by any

health regulatory agency in the world, including

the US Federal Drug Agency. He adds that the most

likely explanation for this is that fluorosilicic

acid is an industrial by-product of phosphate

production.

 

The VOICE spokesman also comments on the American

Dental Association's change of heart and asks

that the Irish government re-consider the

practice of fluoridation:

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Flouridated water not to be used in infant

formula, says American Dental Association (ADA)

 

In response to growing alarm at the increase in

dental fluorosis, the ADA issued interim guidance

on 9th Nov 2006 [1], advising parents to reduce

fluoride intake from infant formula.The guidance

states that while breast milk is best,

ready-to-feed formula (which does not permit

fluoride) may also be used and that if liquid or

powdered concentrate infant formulas is [sic] the

primary source of nutrition, it should be mixed

with water that is fluoride-free (or contains low

levels of fluoride).

 

While some 62% of Americans and 73% of Irish

people are exposed to fluoridated drinking water,

Europe is almost wholly fluoridation-free.

 

This clear recognition of the risks of

fluoridated water in making up infant formula is

welcome and long overdue’ said VOICE spokesman

Robert Pocock, adding it completeley undermines

the position of Health minister Mary Harney, who

only the day before stated almost the direct

opposite.

 

On Nov 8th she informed [2] the Dail (the lower

house of the parliament of the Republic of

Ireland) that fluoridated water is safe for use

in babyfood; fluoride intake is well within the

safe level’ and is still relying on the flawed

advice of her dental advisers and food safety

experts who are completely compromised by their

vested interests in protecting fluoridation

policy regardless. This advice is in turn based

on wildly inacurrate estimates of fluoride intake

[3] involving predictions in place of the

necessary research that has never been carried

out in Ireland. Mary Harney's predecessor Micheal

Martin said that Ireland was too small a

population to do such studies on. [4]

 

The ADA admits that fluoride exposure in babies

is too high; this is also confirmed by Irish

Dentists Opposing Fluoridation who state [5] that

four in ten Irish teenagers have dental

fluorosis. The minister must stop downplaying the

seriousness of this tap-water risk because 30,000

new-borns in Ireland a year receive only infant

formula [6], most of which is of the

reconstituted variety.

 

Since the minister told the Oireachtas

(Parliament) Health Committee in July 2005: " if

the Government thought for one moment that

fluoridation did not have a positive effect,

clearly it would do the right thing. "

 

The VOICE spokesman added " This admission by the

ADA leaves the minister no option but to do the

right thing and end fluoridation of our drinking

water. "

 

[1] ADA interim guidance

[2] Dail Question by Deputy Catherine Murphy,

Question No 184 Ref 36821/06 Written

[3] Seanad Debate 19th February 2002, Senator

Avril Doyle MEP Newborn drinks 1 pint per day up

to 3 months which if made up with fluoridated

water (1mg/l) represents ingestion of 0.33 to

0.42 mg of fluoride per day for a 3 kg baby. This

is from four to five times the safe level set by

the British Medical Association, as quoted by

Avril Doyle MEP.

[4] Fluoride in our water; are we brushing with danger? Irish Independent

[5] www.idof.net and www.fluoridealert.org/dental-fluorosis.htm.

[6] Ireland at 43% has one of the lowest levels of breast-feeding in the EU.

 

European Commission on Fluoride

 

In Europe, hypocrisy reigns with regard to

fluoride. According to European law, any

substance presented as having properties for

treating or preventing disease in human beings’

is considered a medicine and has to be registered

as a pharmaceutical product to be sold. Fluoride,

as added to the drinking water, is promoted as a

preventive treatment against tooth decay (caries)

yet the fluorosilicic acid used for the purpose

has never been approved to used as a medicine.

 

Nor could it ever be approved - the substance

added to the drinking water in Ireland, in parts

of the UK as well as in the US is a highly

corrosive liquid containing numerous

contaminants. Fluoride is difficult to dose and

has never been evaluated in any controlled

experiment necessary for drug approval. It is a

toxic waste by-product of phosphate production

and other industrial processes.

 

In a recent meeting of the Nutrition Committee of

Codex Alimentarius, the international body that

is charged with setting standards for foods,

fluoride was not approved for addition to infant

formula, but the European Commission successfully

argued to allow fluoride as a possible ingredient

in " medical foods " .

 

See also:

 

No Fluoride for Infants, Say Dentists

The ADA reports, " ... infants could receive a

greater than optimal amount of fluoride through

liquid concentrate or powdered baby formula that

has been mixed with water containing fluoride

during a time that their developing teeth may be

susceptible to enamel fluorosis. "

 

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