Public Health Investigation of Epidemiological data on Disease and Mortality in Ireland related to Water Fluoridation and Fluoride Exposure

The extract below is the Introductory paragraph from a recent report in Fluoridation of the public water supply. You can :

Report for The Government of Ireland The European Commission and World Health Organisation
Prepared By Declan Waug
h BSc. CEnv. MCIWEM. MIEMA. MCIWM
February 2013

The impetus for this report came from a recently released U.S. National Research Council (NRC) report which reviewed toxicologic, epidemiologic and clinical data on fluoride and exposure data on orally ingested fluoride from drinking water and other sources and which examined theadverse effects on various organs systems, and genotoxic and carcinogenic potential of fluoride on human health. A growing body of research is calling attention to this problem. As a follow up to the 2006 NRC report and my previous report on Human Toxicity, Environmental Impact and Legal Implications of Water Fluoridation(2012); this study highlights the key findings of the NRC scientific committee under specific headings and examines the health disadvantages for the population of Ireland from increased dietary exposure to fluorides by comparison to disease incidence/burden in non-fluoridated Northern Ireland and Europe.

The results clearly document that higher mortality and inferior health is evident for the population in the Republic of Ireland compared to non-fluoridated Northern Ireland. The findings clearly support the published findings of the NRC scientific committee and conclusively demonstrate that fluoridation of drinking water has significantly increased the dietary fluoride exposure of the entire population in Ireland to unsafe levels that have contributed directly and indirectly to numerous adverse health effects on the population. Ultimately this has culminated in significantly higher disease burdens and mortality and inferior health compared to their counterparts in Northern Ireland or other non-fluoridated EU countries.

Overall the Republic of Ireland fares worse in the prevalence of disease and morbidity for a wide range of disease categories compared with Northern Ireland the UK or the EU region.

The report also highlights similar disease burdens in the few other countries that continue to practice fluoridation especially in North America, Australia and New Zealand. The NRC report (2006) highlighted the potential contribution that fluoride exposure may have for many if not all of these diseases. This report identifies that water fluoridation chemicals have been classified as low dose Endocrine Disruptors (EDCs) in current peer reviewed scientific publications and examines how EDCs impact on overall human health in general. The gravity of the findings in this report raises urgent and fundamental questions about the safety of artificial fluoridation of drinking water. Given the strength of the findings and seriousness of the evidence presented in this report continuation of such a policy, in light of the information contained, would represent gross culpable negligence and  a crime against humanity. With so much at stake and when the evidence of harm is so overwhelming, public health authorities simply have no choice but to act in the public interest and discontinue artificial fluoridation as a matter of urgency.