maxkeiser.com/2013/03/17/guinness-made-i...fluoride/#more-64253
I can confirm that the water supply used to make Guinness, as with most of south Dublin, is the public water supply coming from the Poulaphouca reservoir and we do not further filter this water. There is a regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 on the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods which, among other things, prohibits addition of vitamins and minerals (such as fluoride) to alcoholic beverages. The authorities are aware that most food producers in this country use the public water supply which is required by law to be fluoridated thus many food products will have fluoride from the water. This does not amount to the addition of the mineral to the food.”
Jen Gordon Diageo Consumer Relations. Adding of flouride to water supplies has been banned throughout most EU jurisdictions.The industrial grade chemical added to our water supply , known as Hydrofluorosilicic acid, contains not just the requisite fluoride ion, but also varying quantities of mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminium and beryllium. The Irish public have never once been informed of the side effects of fluoride. The Department of Health have admitted that over-exposure to fluoride causes dental fluorosis; a sign that the body has become saturated with fluoride. If fluoride can do this to teeth, it raises serious concerns as to what it is doing to the rest of the body.
Today, there is a growing body of health professionals worldwide including doctors, dentists, environmental scientists, toxicologists, pharmacologists and epidemiologists who are highlighting the risks associated with fluoride. This list includes over 60 dentists in Ireland alone. There is enough research readily available to suggest that fluoride is not safe and this causes me great worry. For example, in 2012, Harvard University researcher’s review concluded that their research supports the possibility of adverse effects of fluoride exposures on children’s neurodevelopment, thus affecting their IQ levels.
Dr. Arvid Carlsson, Pharmacologist and Nobel laureate, said the notion of using the water supply as a vehicle of delivering medication goes against all modern principles of pharmacology.
The generic response from the Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health claiming that water fluoridation is safe and effective at its optimal level, holds no sway today. How can this Expert Body continue to stand by this claim when people are exposed to varying levels of water and other sources of fluoride on a daily basis? Why have they never carried out any health and safety tests, or risk assessments of fluoride on the human body? It also begs the question, why are we to ingest a chemical that purports only to have topical benefits?
The unethical nature of artificially fluoridating our national water supply without the consent of the people causes grave concern for many living here. It poses serious questions surrounding the notion of mass medication and how that deprives us of our constitutional right to bodily integrity. The people of this country were never given the opportunity to vote on this issue when it became mandatory in 1960, and have been subjected to the ingestion of what has been proven to be a neurotoxin, since 1964.
The current Vice Chairman of the Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health, Mr Michael Kilcoyne, is the Chairman of the Consumer Association of Ireland, who, in 2001, before taking up his place on the Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health personally argued that the Government policy of water fluoridation should change to allow every consumer choice in the matter.
I personally did not choose water fluoridation and I have come to the conclusion, based on current evidence and my own research, that it violates my bodily integrity. I no longer wish to be medicated against my will with an untested and unlicensed chemical.
www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/roisin-ingle-1.1316889
We have a filter tap in our house. Every morning one of us fills a large jug with filtered tap water so our children won’t have to drink it from the regular tap. When we got our kitchen done we asked for the extra tap because we’d seen one on somebody else’s sink. In another house we spotted a glass splash-back and a clever shelf for storing tins, so we copied those ideas too. Yes I know. There’s a nice portmanteau for people like us: sheeple.
The silly thing is that the filtered water probably isn’t filtered much at all. You’re supposed to change the filter every six months. Oops. So our children, your children most likely, are drinking water straight from the tap. Sure where’s the harm in that?
Mind you when my health-guru brother comes to stay he won’t drink our tap water. He’s been lecturing us for years on the dangers of the “mass medication” through fluoride that began in the 1960s. After we had children he ramped it up a notch, so I promised I’d do some research. But then I blinked and suddenly the children were nearly four and full of fluoridated water just like their parents, and we all seemed to be fine.
I did make some inquiries. One day, at the dentist, I asked whether he thought fluoride in the water was okay, and he said it was more than okay, it was essential, because if it wasn’t for fluoridated water whole communities, especially in deprived areas, would have terrible teeth. So that was that, in my mind, until recently, when my sister, not someone given to conspiracy theories, emailed the family about some research completed by a Cork-based environmental scientist, Declan Waugh. He had just completed yet another self-funded review examining what he claims are the disastrous effects on public health of our fluoride policy, including increased risk of cardiovascular, endocrine, respiratory, muscular skeletal, immunological and neurological conditions.
At the same time on twitter I came across one of those citizen superheroes, people like Cystic Fibrosis campaigner Orla Tinsley, men and women with tenacity and energy and passion enough to wake up an entire country.
Aisling FitzGibbon is the Girl Against Fluoride, and after you spend a few minutes on her website you can’t help but have some questions. Why are we pretty much the only country in Europe that fluoridates the water system? Why, if fluoride is supposed to stop tooth decay, is the rest of mostly fluoride-free Europe not in the grips of a tooth-decay epidemic? How come Waugh’s research has persuaded communities in Canada and Australia to reject water fluoridation but has yet to make an impact on authorities here?
A student from Tralee, FitzGibbon came to the issue after struggling with depression. Anti-depressants didn’t help so she sought advice from a nutritionist, who told her that fluoride in the water may have been contributing to her condition. She splashed out on a fluoride removing reverse osmosis water filter, started on a daily programme of vitamins and minerals and says within seven months her symptoms had disappeared.
It’s great that it worked for her. Medical experts might have other views about fluoride-free water and depression.
She told me the fluoride comes from a biocidal product called hexafluorosilicic acid that we import from Spain and that the same chemical was banned for use as a biocide under an EU directive six years ago. She and Waugh insist the substance has never been tested for safety when it comes to human consumption.
When I asked the HSE they said the substance conforms to the European standard for chemicals used for the treatment of water intended for human consumption. When the Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health visited the plant in Spain where the substance is produced it was “satisfied that the production is in compliance with quality, environmental and safety systems”.
FitzGibbon isn’t satisfied and she is preparing a legal case against the State. People will argue that fluoridation is harmless and essential for dental health. They’ll say it’s just like adding vitamin D to milk or folic acid to cereals and that it still goes on in the US and Australia. Still, when it comes to educating ourselves, asking questions and making up our own minds on the fluoride issue, sure where’s the harm in that? You can read more on thegirlagainstfluoride.comand fluoridesandhealth.ie. There’s a nice portmanteau for people like us: sheeple. But not on this issue. Not any more.
