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implications continue to of the European Court of Justice decision resist on the regulation the Fluoridation Push of ‘functional drinks’ with regard to the At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century – several NSW Shire communities have again? We can now see a pattern in the methodology used by the NSW State Government. For those who have followed
practice of water fluoridation.
resisted the Push to Poison, a process euphemistically referred to as fluoridation. According to the Rous what has been happening along the Murray1 River last year, the method used by the ADA and the DoH’s Centre for Oral Water Supplementary Reporti, over 90% of NSW is Health Strategy will seem very familiar. Douglas Cross2 - Environmental now fluoridated. Analyst Corowa - A and WinedForensic Ecologist and Dined Fluoridation Promotion Rous Water, the determining authority for the Shires of Let’s go back to August ‘09 – when “experts from the Abstract Richmond Valley, Lismore City, Ballina and Byron Bay has dental world met in Corowa…to discuss what they say is a beenIn directed a landmark by thedecision NSW State of the European Government Court (ECJ) in the case of Warenvertriebs to fluoridate and Orthica, on the crisis in the shire’s oral health.”iii This newspaper report regulation of foods that appear to be on three of these shires. Byron Bay councillors, to their credit,the borderline between foods and medicines, the Court ruled described the event as a public forum, but it was intended to decided • Wherethey awanted product nothing appears to do with to be thisaprocess both food andanda be anything preparationbutiv. The of fact anythatfoodthefor public retailhappened or wholesalealong at persevered with their 2006 COAG-given medicinal product, the medicinal legislation must right to self- all was due to the persistence purposes in the UK or Ireland of some of Corowa’s citizenry determination regarding fluoridation. take precedence, and the product The Balranald is subject to – who Shire picked up onof • Irrespective theany planned fluoridation possible futurepush award very early. of a Community – part of the regulation as a medicine NSW State electorate of Murray- They then proceeded marketing to make authorization, it a public no UKevent. or Irish food Darling, decided like its Byron Bay counterpart, to do without The Corowa event was manufacturer usingplanned as a winewater fluoridated and dine in event the • National Regulators can not decline to recognise for ‘stakeholders’ only, thereby implying that members of the alleged ‘benefits’ of this dumping of toxic wastes into its preparation of their products may export them such products as medicines, and must subject them the public have no stake in their own government’s health publicto water supplies, that scrutiny is until June, to any other EC country. pharmaceutical with2010. a view to issuing a programs! The event organized at Ballina was planned along A brief note regarding the Rous Water Authority (RWA) • No food manufacturer in external states marketing authorisation the same lines. Only the fluoridation strategy that had failed in Corowa, – for those readers not familiar with the far North Coast of practising water may export their • Such ‘functional drinks’ must not be used to succeeded products in Ballina. To to any quote EC a local country activist, if they Ilga Sleja: use it to NSW. RWA is the determining water authority for the shires prepare foodstuffs, nor may food containing them “From prepare the their announcement products. on the 19 March in the of Lismore City, Richmond Valley, Ballina, and Byron Bay. be exported to other European Community (EC) local This paper, The Advocate, there were five working days decision of the Court is binding on all EC Byron Bay Shire Council is not and will not be fluoridated until the next council meeting, with a wined and dined member states. member states, andin-between is immediately enforceable in – so it’s not under threat. Of the five plants – three are to promotional evening for councillors. Later the The ruling must be applied to fluoridated water. It the national legislation of member states. be constructed in Lismore City: Dorroughby, Clunes and Mayor publicly called it a “briefing”. In the course of that establishes that Corndale. The remaining two are to be located in Ballina: of ‘briefing’ night, on a mere inquiry from the ADA requesting • Fluoridated water, as a ‘near-water drink that Ballina Shire look these – Knockrow will be managed by RWA and the smaller CONTENTS into its No-Fluoridation policy, one of containing added minerals’, is a functional food the For additional die-hard information fluoridationistsee thecouncillors, websites on masthead, Cr. Sharon especially Cadwalader, Marom site becomes the Creekrecognisable with sole responsibility pharmaceutical of Ballina properties. No. 2, put uptheaFluoride motion Freeand Murraythey Riverall campaign voted site. then and there for Shire. As such, it must be regulated as a medicinal Note that the two larger plants, Knockrow and Corndale fluoridation. 1. European Court of Justice Ruling and its Implications noted The request should have been respectfully for product. will• beIndispensing sodium silicofluorides (SiFs),marketing whilst the and dealt with in Council Fluoridation, by Douglas Cross.– which is generally the practice. the absence of a relevant medicinal THERE WAS NO PUBLIC CONSULTATION WHATSOEVER, other authorization three will be dispensing sodium fluorides for its supply to the public, as stated(NaFs). 2. Murray River towns Strongly Oppose Fluoridation. in the Council minutes of March 2009. Note fluoridation also the term of DISPENSING, here used because public water supplies in the UK the KEEP UP YOUR CAMPAIGNS. “The anti-fluoride councillors put up a rescission motion and Ireland FDA classes must stopasimmediately. both compounds DRUGS. Note also that the for a3. real Landmark publicCourt Decision Buried consultation but were for Four voted Years. down 6-4. In toxicity • Alllevels plans of the two drugs to further are definitely expand not the in fluoridation same, the other 4. words, To Your theHealth! (Whydecision-making Pure Water Free processof Fluoride is place entire took a fact UKwhich neither must be the RWA or thepending suspended, NSW Department mandatory of Essential for Good Health), by Dr. Hans Moolenburgh. behind closed doors.” Healthreview of its (hereafter efficacy referred to asandthesafety and aaddressed. DoH) have decision It5.thusMock Beer Advertisement seems that the NSWforGovernment Thinking Drinkers. believes in the on the propriety of awarding it a marketing Why History Mattersii ‘Power6. Subscription of Plonk’ as Form for a meansThe Australian of achieving Fluoridation News. policy objectives. authorization as a medicinal product. Ballina Shire rejected fluoridation in 2006. So why is it Presumably if councillors hadn’t been wined & dined – it that• suddenly Fluoridated water phenomenon this dictatorial must not be rearsused inhead its ugly the would have been harder to get them on side. The Australian Fluoridation The Australian NewsNews Fluoridation - October-December, - January-March, 2009 2010 -- 11 The NSW Environmental Planning and Assessment Act of 6 Poison, to their water supplies? The promotional waffle 1979 requires that the NSW Department of Public Works about fluoridation being efficacious in the prevention of tooth prepare a Review of Environmental Factors (hereafter referred decay was disproved decades ago. Spare us please !! to as the REF) before any project can go ahead. There are clearly difficulties with the NSW State Budget. It As in other political situations – when news that is was stated by the Murray Shire Mayor at a council meeting in perceived or known to be unpopular needs to be made late 2009 that NSW is so broke that no new staff will be hired public - the ploy often used is to release it when the public and those that leave for whatever reason will not be replaced. is known to be otherwise occupied. In the case of the How will the state cope with the increased health demands Rous Water REF for the construction of five fluoride dosing that will ensue once water supplies are poisoned? And of plants – it was released on Christmas Eve. Fortunately – course, health costs will increase for the entire community, members of the Ballina Fluoridation Free Network (BFFN) not just for the indigenous. were on the ball and an extension was applied for and Which brings us to the member for Murray Darling, the granted. The result was that 58 submissions were received Hon. John Williams. He attended a Balranald Council meeting by Rous Water, fifty six against fluoridation and two for. on the 24th March, and was asked by local resident, Mrs. When the public IS allowed to voice its opinion on the June Spinks about the fluoridation issue after the meeting had matter of fluoridation, invariably the vast majority will ended. He was quoted as saying that he couldn’t understand vote it down – which is precisely why Australian state why the Health Dept. would want to put such a thing (as governments are so keen to keep this matter OUT of the reach of any democratic input. fluoride) in the water supply. Well, Balranald residents can’t The nearly unanimous ‘NO’ meant that Rous Water understand it either. engaged a firm of surveyors/planners/engineers, Newton At that same Council meeting, Balranald Council Denny Chapelle (NDC) to independently assess the REF. NDC moved that they wished to revoke the original decision to advised Rous Water to “not determine the REF until proper fluoridate because 89% of residents indicated in a survey regard has been made to the discharge of fluoridated water that they did not want fluoridation. This decision was sent to the environment”.v As it was the DoH that had resolved to the Health Minister of NSW to fluoridate the water supply – NDC advised Rous to ask UPDATE, July 2010 - NSW Residents Betrayed. them to address the environmental issue – which Rous Water Residents of both the Northern Rivers area and Balranald proceeded to do within a few days. Shire have seen their elected councillors buckle under to The response from DoH’s Centre for Oral Health Strategyvi various threats made by the NSW State Government, with was deemed to be so inadequate by Rous Water (though not the result that the Shire Councils concerned have voted to by NDC) that they subsequently sought some independent approve fluoridation, but the voting was done under serious legal advice and voted for a request for a time extension from duress. Two other NSW shires to be fluoridated this year the Chief Dental Officer in order to engage an environmental are Murray Shire ( the towns of Moama and Mathoura) and toxicologist to assess the environmental impact of a fluoridated Corowa. water supply. An article in the Byron Bay Echo typifies the tactics used. Ballina Council is the Water Authority for one plant only According to Byron Shire Councillor Patrick Morrisey: – that of Marom Creek, which services a small indigenous “The majority of Councillors believed a REF clearly took community of less than 1000 people. Here what is happening inadequate consideration of the effects of fluoride on the with the North Coast has parallels with another shire – that of receiving environment including people and the natural Balranald, located in the southwest corner of NSW. environment required under Part 5, Section 111 of the EP & A Act. However Cr. Yarnall of Lismore voted to support the Balranald – Residents Mistakenly Thought They Were staff recommendation because he believed he was being Living in a Democracy. pressured by Rous staff and he was very concerned about Balranald Councilllors were surprised to receive a letter being surcharged and threatened with possibly losing his from the Maari Ma Aboriginal Health Corporation notifying house if he didn’t approve the REF.” them that it “is firmly of the view that fluoridation is an excellent “The three Shires of Richmond River, Ballina and Lismore public health strategy to improve dental health”.vii The more will be fluoridated…(the decision is) based, not on science, so since they had not requested the opinion of this body, though the Shire’s General Manager had. Surprising also but on threats and the luck of a name being drawn out of because the local indigenous community is of the same a hat.”ix mind as the non-indigenous population, i.e. fluoridation is The Guardian reported on June 25, that Balranald Council not wanted in Balranald. had given fluoridation “a reluctant…tick”x. Bear in mind also that according to the Living Black program The story has parallels with that of Rous, i.e. the same aired on SBS – “indigenous Australians have the highest tactics were used by the NSW government. Threats were incidence of renal disease in the world”.viii So why would made of daily financial penalties, which would mean that the any government, knowing the precarious health situation of council “would soon be broke if we refused this direction”, these communities, wish to add sodium fluoride, a Schedule according to Council’s general manager, Mr. Chris Littlemore. The Australian Fluoridation News - January-March, 2010 - 2 Continued on page 4 IN MEMORIAM Glen Stanley Rex Walker, FIMF, EMECS, MAES and now married, he and his wife/business partner Becky June 3, 1914 – June 30, 2009 (Rebecca Edwards) founded a chemical business, Glen Celebrating a life of compassion for his fellow-man; Walker and Co, which eventually became successful enough of dedication to the principles of truth and justice; of a to earn a NATA registration. The company supplied to the commitment to the advancement of knowledge in the metal finishing industry – electroplating chemicals, polishing chemical industry, which included the early exploration of equipment and abrasives. the inherent dangers of all fluoride compounds. A life that In the late sixties – we find he is the co-owner of never knew the meaning of retirement - having spent his last another company, M & T Products P/L. During this period 30 years indefatigably publicising the toxic nature of fluoride he accomplished something he was quite proud of in later compounds, especially when these are added to domestic life. As a keen scuba diver himself in his younger years, he drinking water supplies. A retirement spent in exposing the restored a cannon found during the 1968 Easter break near violation of the basic human right of the individual to choose the Outer Henty Reef, Haley Point, at Apollo Bay by members what he/she eats or drinks – a right denied by governments of the Underwater Explorers Club of Victoria. The restoration adding deadly compounds to what is an essential element for process took months and was done under the supervision of the sustenance of life. M & T laboratory staff. The successfully restored cannon is Any piece on Glen Walker would be incomplete without still on display at the Apollo Bay Cable Museum, which is some information on The Australian Fluoridation News. We open on weekends and public holidays. believe that Glen would wish that acknowledgement be given Glen’s industrial experience taught him just how dangerous to the first editor of the fluoride compounds were and this resulted in a great concern journal (Bob Fulton) and for the health and wellbeing of his fellow man. After his its numerous contributors retirement and with the increasing fluoridation of municipal and supporters as it water supplies, he became determined to help inform approaches half a century the general public of the dangers they were facing. His of continuous publication, commitment to researching and publishing this information holding a landmark meant he took on an enormous workload, which required position throughout the of him considerable amounts of courage, persistence and world as the longest dedication. He sacrificed his retirement years in the interests continuously published of the health and welfare of both Australia’s people and its journal giving a voice to environment, serving Australia to the utmost in an honorary the people of Australia capacity for more than three decades and often found himself and other countries who working far into the night. oppose fluoridation. That retirement was largely spent in writing thoroughly The Anti-Fluoridation documented and well-reasoned letters and extensive Association, founded in submissions to governments, government departments, daily 1960, marks (the word ‘celebrates’ not being appropriate!) its and regional press and were often unpublished. He prepared fiftieth anniversary this year. He was chairman from the late data for presentation at radio interviews (many of which were 1970’s until retiring due to ill health in 2008; also inaugural cancelled at the last minute when a pro-fluoridation speaker and continuing chairman of the Freedom From Fluoridation or the radio station management became aware that the Federation of Australia from 1980 until 2008. Despite many, case against fluoridation would be presented), prepared and many decades of heavily funded promotion by government presented speeches for numerous public meetings (travelling Health Departments, Dental and Medical Associations and all over Australia at his own expense), undertook extensive allied industries; referenda on fluoridation have, in 99 per research, answered innumerable telephone calls day and night cent of cases resulted in a resounding vote by the people to from anti-fluoridation supporters and groups and prepared reject it. The latest example of that is the poll on fluoridation countless folders of information opposing fluoridation for held in the NSW Shire of Balranald where 89 per cent voted supporters/campaigners across Australia, hungry for factual against fluoridation. information on the case against fluoridation. Glen Walker was born in Geelong, the youngest of three As well as all of the above, he will also be remembered boys. He and his brothers Ross and Max were partially for the book he published in 1982, Fluoridation – Poison on schooled in Ballarat, but his loyalty to Geelong was strong and Tap, his answer to the Hamer Government’s ‘Inquiry’ into he was to remain a lifelong supporter of its Australian-rules fluoridation – a transparent whitewash, notable & renowned football team, the Cats. only for the remarkable way in which all the evidence At the age of ten, Glen lost his mother. Much later in life presented that didn’t suit the government was swept under he pointed to this loss as the primary reason for his leaving the carpet!! school at the age of fourteen. The 1930s Depression was a Yet he still valued and dedicated time-out with his wife great informal teacher though; he learnt lessons he would Mary and family, including enjoying afternoon walks on never forget, traces of which can be seen in a Letter to nearby Brighton Beach and weekend walks in the Botanic the Editor of the Border Mail, which the paper declined to Gardens. He presented a Californian Redwood tree to the publish as submitted. The letter was published in full as an Gardens, after growing it from a seed he collected in California. advertisement entitled ‘Fluoridation – Faulty Science’, and He was very proud of his gardening skills, especially of his can be found on the www.fluoridefreemurray.org website roses and orchids. Friends and family looked forward to under Information-Letters-Albury/Wodonga. the photographic evidence thereof every Christmas. And of Glen got through the Depression and proceeded to make course he was committed to his vegetable garden – looking a significant contribution to Australia’s wartime effort. That after your own untainted food supply being a necessity if you included his role as a consultant to the Australian Army, find yourself living in a fluoridated area. Navy, Air Force and Ordinance Factories; as well as being a Glen is survived by his wife Mary, two children with his sub-contractor to the Ministry of Munitions. His consultancy first wife Becky – Elaine and Susan, five grandchildren and an extended for a time to the US Air Force as well. After WWII, increasing number of great-grandchildren. The Australian Fluoridation News - January-March, 2010 - 3 But the evening did not go quite as the authorities had is a matter of wait and see. planned. Some members of the public, incensed at being Has the Shire Council made up its mind on the fluoridation Continued from page 2 left out of a decision-making process, the results of which question? There are discussions underway, it is understood “Councillor their opposition after a Health Department threat of would directlySteve affectO’Halloran everyone expressed in the Shire,his frustration sought and at that$1,000 about half of the councillors want fluoridation and the the response, saying, ‘they’re telling us gained entry. The keynote speaker FOR fluoridation was Prof.what’s going to a day fine for every day fluoridation was stopped. other half does not. We, along with Corowa/Howlong/ happenBlinkhorn, Anthony without having the otherall the information. was They’ve Mr. John Irving frommadethe • Port residents, Mulwala Macquarie/Hastings urge the Council activists not to placed a full-page fluoridate. promises and now they go, ‘you do as abovementioned NSW government body. The third person you’re told’, he said.at advertisement in the Port Macquarie Independent, entitled the‘Why are they speaker’s table interfering was Yarrawonga with dentist, people’sJohnprerogatives?’” Charles. Yarrawonga, “We won’t pay Victoria, population for fluoride”. In circa addition, the6,300 newspaper According The meeting to Mayor, had some Ron highlights. Mengler, “None At oneof uspoint agreeduring with has placed residents Yarrawonga a full-page wereeditorial on by notified theDr.page Johnfacing thethat Carnie ad. it, we don’t like threats, but that’s the situation.” the proceedings Professor Blinkhorn stated that fluoride theyTogether will soonthey receiveinform the reader a fluoridated waterregarding supply. the state of In 1986 Byron strengthens teeth andandBallina prevents Shiresdental had voted respectively problems. Ms. fluoride play According to ainletter that shire. from thisFor body, readers“awanting to seeplant fluoridation that to “not support the general concept Edgar, an attendee from Wodonga then stood up and of allowing the information, locate the www.portmacquarieindependent. has been built at Yarrawonga. The system will be brought State Government to intervene to have asked the Professor why persons in fluoridated areas had certain water supplies fluoridated..,” and “notthat to this support intocom.au operationwebsite, click on over several previous weeks fromeditions, 15th April, 16 November. The such terrible teeth. He replied was compulsory due to the and have a look at pages 12 and 13. fluoridation”. xi amount of fluoride will be gradually increased from current consumption of sweetened drinks and poor diet. To which levels We(about 0.05 give the lastmg/L) word to to the the optimal Editor oflevel of oneBay the Byron partEcho, per Ms. Edgar replied, • Murray “But hanghave Shire councillors on, wasn’t taken fluoridated the unusualwater step million…Localities Michael McDonald: in the water supply districts to receive the supposed to save and protect the teeth of those with a of promising some residents, at Council expense, inbuilt benefits of water fluoridation will be Yarrawonga, Devenish, poor diet and a sweet tooth? Messrs. Blinkhorn and Irving “There are many cases where governments feel justified water filtration systems if they are able to supply a medical St. James and Tungamah.” became noticeably agitated. in giving health authorities coercive powers, and where certificate about any health conditions that might be So Corowa is one thereaders intending population to holiday is grateful for it.onHealth the Murray will now authorities can exacerbated by ofthea addition number of of fluoride towns that rely on the compounds to know what areas to avoid. tourism dollar more so than Mildura and Swan Hill. It very also, override civil rights in dealing with epidemics, for example. the water supply. Clearly they were also hoping that For more informative along Fluoridation of water reading supply isandnotlistening (event a justifiable audio example. fewwith wouldMoamabe ablehastoa dorelatively higher so because thepercentage amount ofoftime the clips) re the Fluoride Free Murray Campaign, go to our population of retirement age. Whether or not the fluoridation The ‘epidemic’ of dental caries on the north coast does given to residents to get that certificate was very short. website: www.fluoridefreemurray.org of the water supplies of these towns will see less tourists visit not require compulsory medication of all residents. It Nevertheless, according to Mrs. Judy Teasdale of Moama, needs more free dental clinics and education programs who led the push to stop the fluoridation of Moama & among those who suffer most from lack of dental care… Mathoura, approx. 24 reverse osmosis systems have now ANTI-FLUORIDATION ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA It is unlikely we will escape the paternalistic thinking of MOCK ADVERTISEMENT been installed and will be maintained, all paid for by Murray Shire. That is in our view a very clear admission BOX 935 bureaucrats some politicians, Email: G.P.O. MELBOURNEand experts afavaust@gmail.com VICon3001 issues such as by Wayne fluoridation for some time yet. Freedom of choice must be that Fluoridation doesEvans, plenty Coffs of harm.Harbour constantly fought NEW MEMBERSHIP for, as there/ are those who FORM RENEWAL are only too One of that Designed to illustrate aJudy shire’s councillors asked why she was still point. happy to take it away in the interests of easy governance or “on about fluorides, because the issue is now dead”, to I enclose: which she replied, “the issue will remain alive as long as Fulleven for your own membership ‘best per - $25.00 annumxiv $ ......................... interests’.” there’s fluoride in our water supply.” End Notes i NAME (PleaseTechnical Wayne Franklin, print) ......................................................... Services Director of Rous Water, “Supplementary • Corowa is another shire that will be fluoridated this year. Report – Fluoride, Determination of Review of Environmental Factors” (REF). ADDRESS 17th February(Please 2010. print) ................................................... Corowa Council voted on its 20th April meeting to accept ii Phrase borrowed from Gerda Lerner, it’s the title of this historian’s major the fluoridation of its water supplies, acting upon the book, published 1997. ........................................................................................ recommendation from the Fluoridation of Public Water iii Conroy, John ‘Fed up to the back teeth with crisis’, The Border Mail, Tuesday Postcode August 18, 2009. ........................ Tel............................................. Supplies Advisory Committee (FPWSAC) to fluoridate. The iv See the Letter to Editor by Marilyn Edgar in the abovementioned paper on Mayor, Cr. Gary Poidevin and Cr. Norman Wales wanted the following day. Email ............................................................................... the FPWSAC letter to be received and no further action v Newton Denny Chapelle, Determining Authorities Report for Fluoridation Plants, February Copy, Cut2010, out or p. email 11. to above address for 12 months taken and tried to move a motion to that effect. However vi Sivaneswaran, Dr. Shanti. Response to the Issue of Water Fluoridation at that did not get off the ground. The majority voted for, subscription to 1ppm and the Impact on the ReceivingFluoridation The Australian Environment, News. Multiple 15th February, 2010. with the exception of Cr. Gail Law, who absented herself on copies vii Whyman,available at reducedof rate. Nola, Fluoridation Enquiries Balranald’s Potablewelcome. Water Supply, 12th the day. Should the citizens of Corowa ever decide to take January, 2010. viii Living Black, SBS Television. Transcript of story entitled ‘Renal Wrangle’, the poisoning of their water supplies to any Court, be it CHRISTMAS GREETINGS aired 12th April, 2010. on the grounds of Human Rights or Land and Environment ix Byron Bay Echo, 27th April, 2010, “Fluoridation decision ‘out of a hat’.” Greetings and best wishes for 2010 to all those seeking x ‘A reluctant fluoride tick’, by Lily Partland, published in The Guardian (Swan contamination, A number of these three will breweries at any rate at present do notavoidbe called using honesty in science Hill) on the 25th June, 2010. and government and opposition to upon to account fluoridated water in for their their actions. According manufacturing processes. to the NSW Contact xi totalitarian and draconian The Australian Fluoridation News, Vol style government 22, No 4, July-Augustat federal, 1986; Northern Teeth forand breweries Health manager, ask them theuse if they latefluoridated Mr. John Irving, water;“We’ve don’t Star; Lismore, state 28 Julygovernment and local 1986; NSW Parliamentary level. Debates, Legislative Council, riskhad your healthforby50drinking fluoride years inproducts NSW. Ninety that contain proven four percent of 4 May 1989, p. 7468. We acknowledge xii ‘Fluoride is coming to Corowa’, andTheappreciate Free Press, 29ththeAprilsupport 2010. of toxins. Within the foreseeable future the NSW population drinks fluoridated water” , whichthe Europeanxii Court those xiii helping Fluoridation: in the universal Disallowance fightNSW of Notification, against fluoridation Parliamentary Debates, of means Justice Ruling that thewillNSW mean that Australian Government should firms be will need spending Legislative Council, 16 March 1967, p. 4363. and encourage you to join the campaign to assert your to alter their manufacturing processes if plenty of money on the construction of hospitals and they wish to retain xiv Op. cit. Byron Bay Echo. democratic right to choose what you eat or drink. market cancer share, especially clinics, if otherdoing as it is already countries follow Europe’s in fluoridated Albury. lead and outlaw the practice. 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