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An Open Letter to Commissioner John Dalli;

Please recognise that Medicinal Law must be enforced in the use of water fluoridation chemicals.

Doug Cross and Liz Vaughan
Directors, UK Councils Against Fluoridation

11th October 2010

Dear Commissioner Dalli,

As the Commissioner responsible for health and consumer policy it is your responsibility to pass judgment on the controversial practice of water fluoridation. We wrote to you requesting your action in this matter three weeks ago, at the time of the SCHER meeting in Brussels, but have had neither a response nor even an acknowledgement of our request.

We are aware that there is entrenched State political opposition to any such move on your part, and extremely persistent lobbying by vested interests for the issue to be further delayed. The cause of your failure to respond is unclear, but appears to be due to obstruction within the Sectretariat itself.

The evidence that this unconventional medical intervention is completely unjustified from the health perspective is convincing - as the SCHER group has already accepted, it is not effective, nor is it safe. The balance of evidence that it causes a great deal of physical and psychological harm to millions - yes, Commissioner, millions - of children in the UK and the Republic or Ireland, is equally overwhelming.

So the British government’s aim to quadruple the numbers of British citizens of the European Community exposed to this blanket unlicensed medication will greatly increase the scale of the damage that results from water fluoridation.

Scale of the threat to children

Even now, around 125,000 newborn infants are exposed to fluoridated water every year in fluoridated areas of England and Ireland. Around 200 of these EVERY WEEK in England, and a further 100 in the Irish Republic, will eventually develop the disfiguring condition known as dental fluorosis of such severity that they will need to seek extremely costly remedial cosmetic dental treatment in later life. This ‘treatment’ will merely conceal this totally avoidable condition, not cure it - there is no cure.

And since this condtion affects rich and poor alike, the poorer victims are less able to afford the cost. So many will suffer discrimination and social exclusion for the rest of their life - hardly confirmation of the claim that 'water fluoridation reduces dental inequalities' so popular with proponents at the moment.

There is reliable scientific evidence that some - perhaps many - will also develop more disabling medical conditions caused by fluoride poisoning, some of which will be life-threatening.

The evidence that this is so has been known for many years, yet neither previous Commissioners, nor the European Parliament, nor even the Parliaments of these two rogue Member States appear willing to take the simple steps necessary to bring this unregulated damaging and discredited practice under control.

Medical law applies to fluoridation chemicals.

The addition of fluoridation chemicals to the public water supply is a clear medicinal intervention, and as such is absolutely subject to medicinal law and regulation. Decisions by both the European Court of Justice and in the Scottish Court provide sound case law precedents that establish this to be correct.

The only action needed on your part is to formally recognise that these precedents apply to fluoridated water. You may then order that the use of these chemical substances in this fashion must halt pending the submission of an Application for their medicinal use, by a relevant supplier of the product to the public.

No medicinal chemicals may be supplied without a mandatory medicinal Marketing Authorisation that is required under the Medicines Directive of the European Community. None of these chemicals has such an Authorization, and their use in this fashion is therefore prohibited.

A simple matter of your Duty of Care as a Commissioner

The time for yet more unnecessary ‘scientific studies of new information’ is long past. The continuing threat to our children is unacceptable. We are not prepared to tolerate apparent obstruction of communications that may prevent you from carrying out your official Duty of Care.

The public must be protected from this unauthorised and damaging fraudulent medical assault. We have therefore published our original letter to you on this web site. The regular visits of the Commission to our site shows that it will now inevitably reach you intact.

Implementing the existing and over-riding European medicinal legislation

Please take the short time necessary to read our original message to you, and then allocate the equally short time it will take you to order that the legal requirements of the Medicines Directive to be implemented with respect to these highly toxic substances.

If any further arguments over its safety and efficacy arise, then they can be dealt with during the due process of formal scrutiny of any relevant Application that you may receive. At least, that is assuming that any Health Authority, Water Company or State body will actually dare to submit an Application to Regulators, given the current state of scientific understanding of the acute and chronic toxicity of these substances.

And please ensure that National Regulators are ordered to recognise and abide by the decision of the European Court in the case of Varenvertriebs and Orthica (2005), particularly with respect to the removal of their claimed authority to express an opinion on the classification of these chemicals and medicines!

Executive action on your part is simple.

As your own SCHER group has already stated, fluoride is a crude and ineefective method of treatment (medical treatment!) and there is no demonstrable threshold below which adverse effects of fluoride on bone tissue and teeth cannot be detected. This is an acknowledgement that there can be no sensible safety margin for its use - even if it were actually effective.

Please take the simple step necessary to protect our children from the life-long effects of this appalling practice. This is not a formidably complex request, so we await your response in the belief that you will recognise that this is a simple issue of law.

The continuance of this practice is entirely subject to due process. You can order this by a simple executive action, in the performance of your appointed Duty as a Community Commissioner.

We urge you to do so immediately - you are the only person with the authority to stop this unacceptable damage to our children immediately.

Yours sincerely,

Doug Cross and Liz Vaughan, UKCAF

For a copy of our original letter to Commissioner Dalli (23rd September 2010)
CLICK HERE

For the reply from Unit C8, SANCO (11th October 2010)
CLICK HERE

For my response to Commissioner Dalli (15 October 2010)
CLICK HERE

And for my analysis of the SANCO response
CLICK HERE