THE fluoride used in water fluoridation is usually hydrofluorosilicic acid, a toxic waste from the aluminium industries.
This is up to 25 times more toxic than natural fluoride that occurs in some rivers.
Countries such as India and Italy have taken even natural fluoride out of their drinking water for years to prevent the harm that scientific evidence shows it does to health.
Holland tried fluoridation, but Dutch doctors, alarmed by increasing symptoms, campaigned successfully to get fluoridation banned by parliament in Holland in the 1970s.
Yet, in our crazy country, misguided bureaucrats still want to contaminate our drinking water with toxic fluoride in the vain hope it might stop decay in children’s teeth, without poisoning other parts of the body.
Hydrofluorosilicic acid fluoride has an official toxicity rating between lead and arsenic.
Alan Hall, Darlington
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