Council should be responsible for supplying and installing Reverse Osmosis water filters (the best systems for removing fluoride from water) for ratepayers at risk medically from the ingestion of fluoridated water. When the Port Macquarie-Hastings water supply is fluoridated, all members of the community on town water will be forced to drink it, regardless of medical condition, age, gender, kidney function or personal choice.  People with kidney disease, diabetes, cancer and those with multiple chemical sensitivities are most vulnerable to fluoride chemical toxicity. It would be inhumane to provide these people with drinking water which will make them sicker. In 2006, the American Dental Association warned parents not to mix fluoridated tap water with infant formula because infants would be at greater risk of developing dental fluorosis (damaged tooth enamel) and swallowing fluoridated water has no benefit on children whose teeth have not yet erupted. Therefore families with infant children should also receive Reverse Osmosis filters.
Australian government bodies often make mistakes. They claim that Fluoridation is safe, but they’ve said the same about Arsenic, DDT, Thalidomide, Dioxin, Asbestos, Agent Orange, the Dalkon Shield, Deildrin, Mercury, Lead and more recently, Vioxx, all shown later to harm or kill people. But at least they weren’t compulsory.
David Blackshaw
