Fluoridation chemicals are the largest source of arsenic in water. Scientists are expected to call for measures to reduce arsenic in water. December 2000 MCA says water fluoridation is not medication Medicines Control Agency says that adding a substance with the specific purpose of changing the body's chemical composition to prevent a disease is not 'medication'. Despite the York Review not giving fluoride a clean bill of health, Health Minister, Yvette Cooper, believes that it provides the basis for recommending water fluoridation. No safety testing of fluoride in Irish tap water, admits Health Dept.
Irish law demands that fluoride safety are performed regularly.
Yet in 35 years of fluoridation, the Irish Health Department has not conducted one test. The EPA revealed that 'at risk' populations for exposure to fluorides in drinking water in America are in the tens of millions. 19 October 2000 Errors in British Fluoridation Society briefing on Water fluoridation chemicals used in UK BFS briefing reveals their inexcusable ignorance of basic chemistry. Later the BDJ was forced to apologise for it. But they did so very grudgingly.