OT: Fluoridation in UK is now ILLEGAL

[Sheri Nakken]

From: P.Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Subject: Fluoridation in UK is now illegal

Nice to see the Human Medicinal Products (Pharmaceuticals) Directive having
at least the potential to be used to protect us, for a change.....!!

Paul
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From: SAYNO2FLUORIDE@aol.com
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:31:27 EST
To: blowjangles@yahoo.com
Subject: Fluoridation in UK is now illegal

Press Release

NAMAF - North and Midlands Against Fluoridation
& The National Register of Children with Dental Fluorosis

Fluoridation in UK is now illegal

Campaigners will lobby Directors of the Board for the newly formed Consumer
Council for Water ( known as CCWater)

Venue : Consumer Council for Water - Victoria Square House, Victoria Sq.
Birmingham, B2 4AJ

Time: 1st November 2005 10.00am - 12.00 o clock

New EU legislation - DIRECTIVE 2004/27/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF
THE COUNCIL of 31 March 2004 amending Directive 2001/83/EC(see 9 below) has
an impact on all existing fluoridation schemes which currently affect 6
million people in the UK who are forced to drink, cook with and bathe in
fluoridated water.

All ingestible substances are either foods or medicines, when fluoride - in
ANY form - is added to water with the intent to medicate then that water
becomes a medicine, and must comply with the regulations relating to the
registration, licensing, sale and administration of medicines.

This is now an absolute requirement, and enforceable under EU legislation,
the UK Government's dispensation for silicofluorides to be used to medicate
dental caries is without substance.

Douglas Cross - Environmental Analyst - EurProBiol,CBiol,MIBiol,BSc
also comments

'From 31st October '05 it will be illegal to to use silicofluorides with
the intent to medicate. Nomination of silicofluorides by the UK
government for fluoridation does not constitute the issue of a marketing
authorisation which is mandatory for any substance used with the intent of
treating or preventing any medical condition.'

Professor Vyvyan Howard, toxico-pathologist in the Centre for Molecular
Bioscience at the University of Ulster said "I am glad that there now
appears to be a legal framework to test the dubious practice of mass
medication via the water supply. There are so many unanswered questions
relating to the addition of hexafluorosilicic acid to the water supply,
particularly to the unborn and infants, that it is my personal and
professional opinion that the practice should cease until the basic
toxicological research required has been performed".

Cllr. Susan King - Secretary of NAMAF is delighted that the new EC
legislation will bring to an end the deliberate pollution of water
supplies with hexafluorosilicic acid at the rate of1 part per million. For
the last 60 years fluoride has been condoned as
the 'protected pollutant' with unknown effects on our general health and
the health of the environment.

She added

'There is now compelling evidence from the US that fluorides are
carcinogenic linking them with bone cancer affecting young males. Water
suppliers are not pharmacists! Its totally unacceptable to add a known
cumulative protoplasmic poison to our tapwater. The fluoride dosing
equipment must be switched off now!'

For more information please contact:

Cllr. Susan King - Secretary NAMAF Mobile Tel: (07976) 255364
(01455) 828778 e mail : kings1955@aol.com or Margaret Cooper -
Co-ordinator National Register of Children with Dental Fluorosis Mobile
Tel: (07930) 810630 or Tel: (0115) 9526548
Notes for Editors

1) Press release on first Consumer Council for Water meeting - Birmingham
Nov 1st 2005
http://www2.watervoice.org.uk/aptrix/of ... ccwater605

Water supplies top the agenda at first CCWater meeting in public
2) DWI - Press release on formation of Consumer Council for Water - CCWater
( replacing Water Voice) http://www.dwi.gov.uk/consumer/ccwater.shtm

3) Doug Cross - analysis of implications of Codified Pharmaceutical
Directive in relation to EC definition of a food.

The medicinal regulations are essentially unchanged from the wording of the
2001 Codified Pharmaceuticals Directive. However, the Food Directive has
more recently been updated,
and now provides additional confirmation of the status of 'normal'
drinking water, and therefore of fluoridated water as a medicine.
Remember, any ingestible substance is either a food or a medicine.

Note the use of the phrase 'Water is ingested directly or indirectly
like other foods,' in section 6 of the Preamble. This is also saying
that water is a food, like any other. The key ruling is the European
Court of Justice's decision that the intent to medicate renders any
chemical so used a medicinal substance.
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'REGULATION (EC) No 178/2002 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE
COUNCILof 28 January2002 laying down the general principles and
requirements of food law, establishing the European FoodSafety Authority
and laying down procedures in matters of food safety'

Article 2
Definition of 'food' For the purposes of this Regulation, 'food' (or
'foodstuff') means any substance or product, whether processed, partially
processed or unprocessed, intended to be, or reasonably expected to be
ingested by humans. 'Food' includes drink, chewing gum and any substance,
including water, intentionally incorporated into the food during its
manufacture, reparation or treatment. It includes water after the point of
compliance as defined in Article 6 of Directive 98/83/EC and without
prejudice to the requirements of Directives 80/778/EEC and 98/83/EC

Preamble (6) Water is ingested directly or indirectly like other foods,
thereby contributing to the overall exposure of a consumer to ingested
substances, including chemical and microbiological contaminants. However,
as the quality of water intended
for human consumption is already controlled by Council Directives
80/778/EEC (5) and 98/83/EC (6), it suffices to consider water after the
point of compliance referred to in Article 6 of Directive 98/83/EC.
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So, the quality of drinking water is covered by the EU food and water
regulations as long as it does not contain any substance added with the
intent to medicate any medical condition. Therefore, the presence of
calcium fluoride in drinking water, as long as it is derived from natural
sources, does not alter the status of drinking water as a food whose
quality is regulated under the Water Quality Regulations.

However, immediately any form of fluoride, whether 'natural' or
artificial, and including those fluorides that do have medicinal
Marketing Authorisations, is added to water with the intent to prevent or
reduce dental caries, that water ceases to be a food and becomes a medicine.

Neither authorized fluorides (potassium and sodium fluoride) nor any form
of silicofluoride have Marketing Authorizations under the EU or UK
legislations. Their use with the intent to medicate is therefore illegal -
and absolutely so - from the end of this month.

So any authority faced with this illegal administration of an unlicensed
medicine as from that date can, and should, apply for an injunction against
any water company actively fluoridating its product, or proposing to do so.
This action can also be taken against any Strategic Health Authority
proposing to order a water company to carry out this illegal act.

4) Latest news on Water Fluoridation - including fluoride/bone cancer link

http://www.fluoridealert.org

Fluoride Action Network - Prof Paul Connett - Chemistry Dept, St Lawrence
University, New York

5) TIME MAGAZINE Sunday, Oct. 16, 2005

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 79,00.html

Not in My Water Supply

It hardens teeth and prevents cavities, but 60 years after it began,
fluoridation is meeting new resistance By MARGOT ROOSEVELT / BELLINGHAM
6) British Fluoridation Society http://www.bfsweb.org/
7) British Dental Association www.bda-dentistry.org.uk/ - see Fluoride
links page for details of how to find York Review on Water Fluoridation,
Medical Research Council report on water fluoridation etc

8) Fluoride Helpline - Manchester http://www.fluorideinformation.com

9) DIRECTIVE 2004/27/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 31
March 2004 amending Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to
medicinal products for human use Article 1 Directive 2001/83/EC is hereby
amended as follows: 1) Article 1 shall be amended as follows:

(b) point 2 shall be replaced by the following:

'2. Medicinal product: (a) Any substance or combination of substances
presented as having properties for treating or preventing disease in human
beings; or (b) Any substance or combination of substances which may be used
in or administered to human beings either with a view to restoring,
correcting or modifying physiological functions by exerting a
pharmacological, immunological or metabolic action, or to making a medical
diagnosis.'
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