I wholeheartedly agree with Miss Johnson. Dr Arvid Carlsson, winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2000, said. "Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It's really obsolete." Modern drug research focuses on carefully targeted doses. People drink varying amounts of water. It would also get into our processed food and drink, and there would be no way of knowing the dose of fluoride chemical we were ingesting. It's a very unscientific approach to the problem of the terrible dental health of a minority of children.

All about Money - not better Health
1) Being paid to dumping what is a toxic fluoride by-product (mostly hydrofluosilicic acid) instead of having to pay for waste disposal....££££££s for fertiliser and smelting industry thank you
2) it would reqluire £200M at a minimum in Yorkshire to set up and regular inputs of cash (£1m a year?)to keep it going. In addition to basic plant and machinery, special tankers and reinforced roads leading to treatment plants would be needed. The costs for this are not known but certainly substantial and as the NHS doesnt have any more money to throw at this, these additional costs would come from the Council Tax.
££££s for industry and local authorities?
3) targeting dental health care programmes to those that need it, really helping children and families who need the care, having NHS dentist avaliable for all wherever you live to see them at leat 2 x a year, clealy the best option, costs too much? ££££s
4) 0nly about 1% of water supplied to domestic properties is drunk. In November 2006, the American Dental Association (ADA) announced that babies up to one year old should avoid fluoridated water because they are at high risk of developing dental fluorosis. This defect of teeth development may result in staining, pitting and corrosion of the enamel. It is common in fluoridated areas. Fluoride in foods and beverages, made with fluoridated water can result in
fluoride over-consumption, visible in young children as dental fluorosis; white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth. Dentists get paid to fix this with veneers etc. ££££s
5) adding Fluoride to the water will, according to extremely conservative projections, increase cancer deaths in the UK by at least six people per day.
6)meeting spurious health targets on child tooth decay using a non medicine with non scientific research from the time when radiation, smoking, asbestos and pesticides were said to caused no harm......just plain stupid, but there is lota money to ma