You can consider this as a very crude method of medication, it s very unscientific . An entire population should not be exposed to a toxic waste chemical purely because some people in that population do not brush their teeth to very high standards. For more from TV3 s Water Fluoridation Debate. There is now enough evidence to not just stop water fluoridation, but to ban it in Ireland. Despite these councils explicit opposition to this mandatory health programme, the Department of Health insists that these councils continue fluoridating the populations drinking water supplies.
Councils call for an end to water fluoridation .
Whilst 23 European countries have signed this convention since 1997, the Irish government has not done so. Read more about the Convention on Human Rights and BioMedicine. Ireland s Water Fluoridation policy Infringes a Major European Human Rights Convention .