WILL the water companies compensate anyone damaged by fluoridation when the fluoride to be used is toxic waste from the chimneys of the phosphate fertiliser industry and is very different from natural calcium fluoride?
Neither can it be right to medicate everyone in a community regardless of need, health or personal choice.
Most water is used by industry and for washing.
Less than one per cent of the water is actually drunk by the children to whom it is supposed to be targeted.
Most is literally money down the drain.
So for every £100 of taxpayers' money spent on fluoridation, only £1 reaches its target.
It would therefore, be cheaper, to issue every child with fluoride toothpaste, at a cost of 50p per tube, until the child is 12-years-old, when the benefits of fluoride cease, and the build up in older people's bones becomes a problem, not a benefit.
James Walton
Tarbet Drive
Bolton
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