MYTH: WATER FLUORIDATION reduces tooth decay in
children
FACT: FLUORIDE is more toxic than
lead and marginally less so than arsenic. A very large body of
scientific literature published in peer-reviewed journals shows
artificial water fluoridation to be harmful to human, animal plant and
aquatic life.
UK Organisations
Against Fluoridation:
National Pure Water Association (with a Northern Ireland
Branch.).
Scottish Pure Water Association.
North West Councils Against Fluoridation.
N. Ireland Councils Against Fluoridation.
National Anti-Fluoridation Campaign.
Register of Doctors Against Fluoridation.
National Register of Children with Dental Fluorosis.
The Templegarth Trust.
Safe Water Information Service.
The Green Network.
The Green Party.
The Liberal Party.
The Scottish National Party.
The Soil Association.
Friends of the Earth.
Ulster Farmers' Union
N.Ireland Public Service Alliance (nipsa.).
N.Ireland Agricultural Producers Association.
What Doctors Don't Tell You.
Regional Groups interacting with NPWA:
London Against Fluoride (LondaF).
West Yorkshire Campaign Against Fluoridation
North & Midlands Against Fluoridation.
Leicester & Rutland Against Fluoridation.
Hampshire Against Fluoridation.
Calderdale Citizens' Protest.
Blackburn, Hyndburn & Ribble Valley Against Fluoridation.
Scarborough Against Fluoride.
York Against Fluoride.
Staffordshire Against Fluoride.
Tandragee Residents Against Fluoridation.
Dorset & New Forest Safe Water Society.
Isle of Wight Against Fluoridation.
US Organisations which have withdrawn
their support for fluoridation in the 1990s:
American Nurses Association.
American Parent-Teachers Association.
American Civil Liberties Union.
American Cancer Society.
American Academy of Diabetes.
American Diabetes Association.
American Heart Association.
American Psychiatric Association.
American Chiropractic Association.
American Academy of Allergy & Immunology.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Activation Network.
Commission on Chronic Illness.
National Kidney Foundation.
Society of Toxicology.
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
Joint Committee on Health Problems in Education.
Child Study Association of America.
National Institute of Municipal Law Officers.
The All Party Group Against Water
Fluoridation in Parliament.
Chairman: Jimmy Wray, MP, (Labour). Secretary: Bill Etherington,
MP, (Labour).
NPWA invites existing campaigning bodies, NGO's, Councils, etc. to
endorse its call for a
full, independent Public
Inquiry