PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING ON INFANT FORMULA PREPARED WITH FLUORIDATED TAP WATER. 


Infant formula prepared with fluoridated drinking water exceeds the maximum standard for the composition of infant formula as recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.

The Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) was established in 1963 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop food safety standards. 

In 2004, in revieving the CODEX standard on Infant formula they requested additional advice from an international group of scientific experts in the area of infant nutrition. CCNFSDU asked the Committee on Nutrition of ESPGHAN (The European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition) to initiate a consultation process with the international scientific community to provide a proposal on nutrient levels in infant formulae, based on scientific analysis and taking into account existing scientific reports on the subject.  ESPGHAN in collaboration with its sister societies in the Federation of International Societies on Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, invited highly qualified experts in the area of infant nutrition to form an International Expert Group (IEG) to review the issues raised. 

The final report (JPGN 41:584–599, 2005) was written, circulated to all IEG members, approved and submitted to the CCNFSDU and its EWG in June 2005 [1].

In their report the committee concluded “that the benefit of a high fluoride intake during early infancy is questionable and carries the risk of dental fluorosis. Therefore, maximum levels should be as low as possible and not exceed 0.6mg per 100 kcal.”

The committee established the maximum energy content (kcal per 100 ml) for infant formula at 70kcal.  At this compositional requirement the fluoride content in infant formula must not exceed 0.42mg/L [1].

When any of the dry or powered formulas are mixed with fluoride adjusted water (0.7-1.2mg/L), the fluoride levels to which the infants are exposed approximate to 1.45 mg/L [2,3].  

That is 340% above the maximum recommended limit. 

Public health Authorities globally have been aware of these food safety standards since 2005, yet, in fluoridated countries they continue to disregard the scientific evidence and allow overexposure of sensitive infants to a toxic substance that has recently been identified as a developmental neurotoxin.[4].

References
[1] Medical Position Paper 2005, Global Standard for the Composition of Infant Formula: Recommendations of an ESPGHAN Coordinated International Expert Group. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 41: 584–599 November 2005
[2]Johnson J Jr and Bawden JW, (1987) The Fluoride Content of Infant Formulas Available in 1985, 1987. Pediatr Dent, 9(1): 33-7
[3] McKnight-Hayes MC, Leverrett DH, et al. Fluoride content of Infant Formulas: 1988, Pediatr Dent, 10(3): 189-94
[4] Grandjean P. Landrigan P. J. Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity. The Lancet Neurology - 1 March 2014 ( Vol. 13, Issue 3, Pages 330-338 ) DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(13)70278-




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  1. This added to the garbage that's in formula milk adds up to a lot of toxic material in your baby!! from Andy Smith

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  2. In 2005 global nutritional experts met to determine the maximum safe level of fluorides that could be givento infants. In Novemeber the expert group published their findings in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 41: 584–599 November 2005. If This finding says that formula milk made with artificially fluoridated water contains 340% more than the maximum permitted safe level, why has no warning been issued by Public health authorities in Ireland?

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You may not be aware but the ARTICLE OF THE YEAR in 2019 in the world’s premier Paediatrics journal, JAMA Pediatrics, was a study by Green et al which found an association between prenatal fluoride exposure in pregnancy and lower IQ in offspring.This study by a team of researchers from numerous universities from Canada and the United States was conducted in communities across Canada and examined for the very first time fluoride intake among pregnant mothers in fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities in North America and its effects on the IQ of offspring. Importantly, this study confirms the findings of previous studies published in Central America and China.

A recent study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/5/856 documents that ingesting fluoride contributes to degenerative eye diseases such as cataracts, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and glaucoma.

This month the findings of three important human epidemiological studies were published in peer reviewed scientific journals which have important and far reaching implications for this country.

Dear Dr. Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach; Mr. Simon Harris T.D. Minister for Health and Oireachtas members.

Last September, detailed correspondence was submitted to each of member of the Oireachtas concerning repealing the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking water) Act of 1960 and Fluoridation of Water Supplies Regulations of 2007.

Mr. Frans Timmermans, European Commission Vice President

E mail: frans-timmermans-contact@ec.europa.eu

Mr. Karmenu Vella, EU Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.

E mail: cab-karmenu-vella-contact@ec.europa.eu

9th February 2018

Dear Sirs,

I read your comments with interest regarding the European Commission’s view on drinking water and discouraging people from drinking bottled water. The Irish Examiner newspaper (1st February 2018) quote Mr.

Dear Deputy,

The findings of a recent, well controlled longitudinal study investigating the association between maternal fluoride intake during pregnancy and developmental neurotoxicity in children published last month in the highly respected peer review journal Environmental Health Perspectives has devastating implications for continuation of water fluoridation in Ireland.

To: Dr. Leo Varadkar T.D. Taoiseach

Mr. Simon Harris TD. Minister for Health

Mr. Jim Daly TD. Minister for mental Health and the Elderly

Ms. Katherine Zappone T.D Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.

Mr. Finian McGrath T.D. Minister of State with special responsibility for Disabilities

Mr. Pascal Donohoe T.D Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

Mr. Richard Burton T.D. Minister for Education and Skills

Mr. Charlie Flanagan T.D.

The role of traditional media is to provide the public with factual information, as well as individual opinion. However, everyone has an opinion about media bias, particularly in how they select and report events and stories that are reported. A typical example of media bias in certain English speaking countries is what they do or do not report regarding water fluoridation.
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Dear Dr. Leo Varadkar Taoiseach and Mr. Simon Harris T.D Minister for Health.

As you are aware, I wrote to you by registered post last May regarding my concerns regarding water fluoridation in a detailed submission that I also forwarded to Irish Water. I have not yet received any reply to this submission.

Governments have a duty to protect their citizens, so why aren’t the Irish Government doing anything to protect new-born infants from chronic fluoride intoxication and why do they refuse to act to protect Irish consumers from overexposure to fluoride in general.

In Ireland, public health nurses inform parents of newborn children not to use bottled water when preparing infant formula and instead use public tap water, which is artificially fluoridated.

In May 2016,  I wrote to Irish Water, including its Board of Directors, the Director General of the EPA, Chief Executive of the Food Safety Authority, Chairman of the Consumers Association of Ireland, Chief Medical Officer of the HSE, Minister for Health and Taoiseach’s Office among others, in which I raised numerous concerns regarding the safety of Irish drinking water, including the adverse health risks of co-toxicity of exposure to fluoride and lead. 

A year on, I have received no reply.
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Despite fifty years of water fluoridation the authorities in New Zealand (NZ) and the Republic of Ireland (RoI) have never actually measured the fluoride intake in diet or beverages by using tap water in the preperation of foods.

In NZ, the 1987/88 Dietary intake assessment suggested that the dietary fluoride intake for adults living in Dunedin NZ (Fluoridated drinking water) was 0.7 mg per day.
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OPEN LETTER TO

Dr Pamela Byrne, CEO Food Safety Authority of Ireland and Dr Leo Varadkar, Minister for Health

In 2013, I wrote to the CEO of the FSAI and the Minister for Health addressing inaccuracies and scientific irregularities in the total diet survey published by the FSAI in 2010.

A new scientific study on fluoride exposure is the first to establish excessive fluoride levels in tea products for sale in Ireland and provides the strongest evidence to date that the total dietary fluoride intake in the general population can readily exceed the levels known to cause chronic fluoride intoxication. That’s the main finding of the paper published this month in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

The Irish Health Research Board (HRB) in their recent review say that they found no definite evidence that community water fluoridation has negative health effects.
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In 2002, a study published in the International Journal of Clinical Chemistry measured the fluoride levels in beers available in Great Britain.[i] The highest fluoride level measured was in Guinness, which the authors reported contained 1.12mg/L of fluoride.

Nick Cohen noted in his article (It’s not just on Ebola that good science must prevail, published in the Observor, 1st, November 2014) that Sinn Fein is leading a vigorous anti-fluoride campaign in Dublin and suggested "that its progress for the IRA to go from blowing off peoples heads to merely rotting their teeth."

Mr.

In recent decades in four seperate countries notably Finland, the Netherlands, Germany and Cuba, dental health professionals warmed of the grave dangers to public health from discontinuation of water fluoridation. Yet ironically peer reviewed published scientific research demonstrated that dental health significantly improved when fluoridation of water ended.

The Irish Times newspaper in recent articles have repeatedly stated that anyone who questions fluoridation is either unscientific, a conspiracy theorist or unreliable. Such poor quality journalism only acts to demean the value of this newspaper.
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