Q3. A. For policy makers, the draft Public Statement provides sufficient information to support decision making in your jurisdiction or local area:
Overarching/General comments on the Public Statement:
In this information paper it is mentioned many times that "There is no reliable evidence of an associationar between water fluoridation at current Australian levels and (fill in disease)."
There is a long list of diseases that are possibly linked to water fluoridation. Government research has shown "insuffincient evidence" that these diseases are linked to water fluoridation, please have a look at the following links because there is a lot of research out there proving the toxicity of fluoride:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312535071_Re-examination_of_acu...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24999851
http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2015/02/09/jech-2014-204971
I'm also concerned with the ethics of fluoridation. In the information paper it is mentioned that people can choose not to drink fluoridated water by drinking bottled water, rain water or use a reverse osmosis filter. These 3 options cost money are wasteful and unnecessary. Water is a basic human right, we pay for it. Why can't the government supply fluoride tablets to people who want to ingest fluoride?
Thank you,
Lisa van der Velde
