Fluoride Free Alliance UK continues to champion the fight for fluoride-free water in the UK. In summer 2024, we campaigned to stop the roll-out of water fluoridation (WF) in the North-East of England. Now, we are getting ready to mount a legal challenge. The UK Government and its Establishment must understand and accept that they cannot, with impunity, continue to sponsor the adulteration of our drinking water.
We are already at the end of 2024, and even though there has been no decision on the attempt to fluoridate the North-East of England, five English Local Authorities (LAs) are planning to contact the Secretary of State (SoS) for Health and Social Care to ask him to go out to Public Consultation (PC) in Cornwall, Norfolk, Rutland, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
This is unbelievable, particularly since a USA judge’s decision on fluoride being a cause of reduced IQ was announced on 25th September of this year:
“Fluoride poses an unreasonable risk to the health and IQ of children.”
(Senior Federal Judge Edward Chen)
American Newspapers etc. have been full of news of this decision, President-Elect Trump has vowed to stop WF in January 2025 and we know that the news of this decision has crossed the Atlantic to land in the In Tray of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID, DHSC). That means that their Directors of Public Health (DsPH) attached to each LA and NHS Trust know about the US court decision. We don’t know if all Councillors have been informed but light is being made of the permanent brain damage and reduction in IQ caused by fluoride. On 29th November, a Local Democracy Reporter for the Oakham Nub News (Sarah Ward) recorded the following statement by the Director of Public Health for Leicestershire and Rutland:
“Acknowledging concerns made in the US about fluoride, Mr Sandys said he saw adding fluoride to the water as a health benefit.”
Recommending fluoridation to the Health and Well-Being Boards (H&WBBs) for the four LAs, despite knowing about the IQ reduction issue, can be construed as medical negligence if the DsPH are on the GMC medical (specialist) register. They are pressing for PCs into WF even though the rest of the World seems to know about the scientific evidence that fluoride causes IQ reduction of the foetus (via the placenta) and the infant fed with fluoridated baby formula.
Our first action upon learning about the LAs planned approach to the SoS has been to write to the relevant H&WBBs to relay the truth about how fluoride reduces IQ, how the practice is not financially viable and how it can only ever reduce tooth decay by 2% - 4%. That’s not enough to justify spending £millions on this practice. At the same time as engaging with LAs, we and our legal team are in the final planning stages of litigation. This outrageous ambition to get entire populations to drink toxic water must be stopped!
Legal action is not cheap and our donation box is designed for financial gifts to go towards legal costs. Our aim is to stop fluoridation forever and to return our health-damaging medicinal liquid back into health-giving nutritious water. None of us has ever consciously agreed to pay for medicinal liquid.
In the USA, fluoride is now classified as a neurotoxin which permanently damages children’s brains. Therefore, in the UK, a margin of safety of 10x of 1 mg fluoride/litre water (i.e. 0.1 mg fluoride litre) should be the maximum added. That would be far less than the alleged optimum for oral health and would make the pursuit of WF meaningless.
DsPH who know about this are guilty of deliberately ignoring the toxic nature of fluoride. They are cruelly prepared to be the instigators of the intelligence reduction of entire populations. And for what? Are they really concerned about the future of the people they profess to serve?
In reply to their po-faced expressions, we have this to say: “You can repair a decayed tooth, but you cannot repair a permanently damaged brain. You are prepared to sacrifice the future of thousands of children in direct contravention of The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’s aim of allowing children to achieve their full potential for the sake of your blind adherence to fluoridation policy which can only ever reduce tooth decay by 2% – 4%.*
It’s time for Directors of Public Health and The Establishment to come clean.
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*Deborah Moore, Blessing Nyakutsikwa, Thomas Allen, Emily Lam, Stephen Birch, Martin Tickle, Iain A. Pretty, Tanya Walsh. How effective and cost-effective is water fluoridation for adults and adolescents? The LOTUS 10-year retrospective cohort study. First published: 08 January 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12930
Goodwin M, Emsley R, Kelly MP, Sutton M, Tickle M, Walsh T, et al. Evaluation of water fluoridation scheme in Cumbria: the CATFISH prospective longitudinal cohort study. Public Health Res 2022;10(11)