Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Luxembourg, Neitherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland are stopped or rejected "highly beneficial practice" of water fluoridation, after considering pros and cons:
- [http://www.fluoridation.com/c-country.htm]
- [http://www.actionpa.org/fluoride/countries.pdf]
Meanwhile in Australia:
Delivering medication using public water supplies become ethically acceptable...
Without consent...
Without assessment of fluoride level already accumulated in body...
Without assessment of individual sensitivity...
Without control over dose...
Without considering adverse effects...
With contaminated fluoride from industrial waste...
Without safety assessment for health in general...
When nothing but theoretical benefits for teeth considered...
When fluoride is confirmed poison and neurotoxin...
Which cannot possibly be safe knowing its accumulative effect...
Without solid evidence for efficacy...
While there are no known diseases linked to lack of fluoride.
"The margin of safety between the range of fluoride exposures typically found in fluoridated communities and the range of exposures associated with fluoride-related health problems (such as arthritis & bone fracture) are poorly defined and, if existent, remarkably narrow."
Belgium:"[it] is the fundamental position of the drinking water sector that it is not its task to deliver medicinal treatment to people. This is the sole responsibility of health services."
Luxembourg:"In our views, the drinking water isn't the suitable way for medicinal treatment and that people needing an addition of fluoride can decide by their own to use the most appropriate way."
Germany:"The argumentation of the Federal Ministry of Health against a general permission of fluoridation of drinking water is the problematic nature of compuls[ory] medication."
France:"Fluoride chemicals are not included in the list [of 'chemicals for drinking water treatment']. This is due to ethical as well as medical considerations."