If you want to have your voice heard on Fluoride

[Calz]

Not sure about this type of "poll" directed to governments.

98% of Americans contacted their (laughably alleged) "representatives" in Washington to vote NO on the initial banker bailout. Lots of good that did.

Anyway ... I digress.

For those who *DO* wish to have their voices heard on the very very important Flouride subject there are 3 days left to do so:


http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/11/fluoride-is-a-poison--says-top-researcher-on-australian-tv.aspx

[The One]

Contrary to what we have been told for many decades, man-made fluoride actually leads to fluoridosis, a condition that is marked by stained and weakened hole-filled teeth. Notably, in Europe and US communities where there is no water fluoridation, cavities are less than in fluoridated US communities. Even worse, fluoride can result in hyperactivity and/or lethargy, arthritis, lowered thyroid function, lowered IQ, dementia, disrupted immune system, genetic damage, cell death, cancers, deactivated essential enzymes and lower life span.

Fluoride in its natural form is actually considered an essential trace element, but we only need very tiny amounts and the natural form of fluoride is a far cry from the man-made form added to our water and products. The natural form of mineral fluoride found in your teeth and in nature is called Apatite (calcium fluoro-chloro-hydroxyl phosphate). The unnatural form of fluoride added to our municipal water supplies is sodium fluoride - a chemical by-product of aluminium, steel, cement, phosphate, and nuclear weapons manufacturing. Such fluoride has no nutrient value or health benefits whatsoever.

I complained to the European Commission about The fluoridation of drinking water in the UK.

Their response was drinking water quality is in the European Union and regulated by the drinking water directive. Whilst the drinking water directive sets ambitious and legally binding standards, it does not prescribe how to achieve those standards. As an example, the method of drinking water disinfection (e.g. chlorination by chlorine gas, by chloride dioxide, by sodium hypochlorite, UV disinfection, ozonisation etc) is the right and responsibility of the operter, against the background of possible additional legislation. For fluoride, the directive set a quality standard, as long as this standard is complied with the fluoridation of drinking water (which is to our knowledge in Ireland and the United Kingdom) is not an infringement of the drinking water directive. At the same time, the drinking water directive does by no means set out an obligation for drinking water fluroidation; this is the responsibility of the national authorities of member states as is a possible public consultation on such matter.

Possible consultation never happened in the UK