We are the National Activist Group, here to oppose the enforcement of
Water Fluoridation in the UK
Fluoride Free Alliance UK
(FFAUK)
Formerly known as UK Freedom From Fluoride Alliance
(UKFFFA)
A note about our sister site in the North-East of England, www.newfc.org.uk
The site contains current information
and was set up specifically to help residents in the
North-East of England respond knowledgeably and cogently
to the 2024 Public Consultation
which began 25th March and ended 31st July 2024.
(The DHSC added a further 6 weeks to the consultation period
having received our solicitor's letter pointing out some irregularities.)
Update on the Public Consultation: 17th November 2024 - still no decision by
Wes Streeting, SoS for DHSC.
This Website contains information on the issue of Water Fluoridation and of the
attempts being made by the UK Government to
achieve Water Fluoridation throughout England and Wales.
News about the US Court Case on Water Fluoridation appears below. All other news can be found as a sub-page under the Home tab.
SPECTACULAR NEWS - 24th September 2024 - We finally have a court decision from the USA
The USA's judge deciding on Fluoride and reduced IQ has released his decision and has determined that
"... fluoride poses an unreasonable risk to children's IQ".
The essence of the decision is on p.6:
"Thus, the Court finds Plaintiffs have met their burden in establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, that community water fluoridation at 0.7 mg/L presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health under Amended TSCA and that the EPA is thus obliged to take regulatory action in response. The Court does not in this order prescribe what that response should be."
Ref: https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/17-cv-2162-Food-_-Water-Watch-Inc.-et-al.-v.-EPA-et-al-Opinion.pdf
Following the decision, the Fluoride Action Network (USA) published a very useful FAQ document which tells it all. We're also uploading a video which explains the statistical data which was presented to the Judge.
Note that now that fluoride is considered as being a developmental neurotoxin, a margin of safety of 10x must be applied to it. This is explained towards the end of the video. In England, this means that the concentration of fluoride would need to be reduced to
0.1 mg fluoride/litre, thus making it unrealistic to continue fluoridation practice. Please read the FAQ file either before or after viewing the video which explains the statistical data which substantiated the Judge's decision.
The office of the UK's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has been informed of this judge's decision.
Any decision requiring Northumbrian Water to fluoridate the North-East of England would be made in full knowledge of this judge's decision.
Dare Wes Streeting and "The Establishment" forge ahead and defy this decision. Not only does fluoride reduce IQ but it permanently damages the brain. The damage occurs in the womb and when an infant is given formula made with fluoridated tap water. Families living in naturally fluoride areas are not immune either.
The Current Legal Scene in England and Wales (13th April 2024)
The Fluoridation Consultation Regulations 2022 were enacted to take effect from 1st November 2022.
The Government's Minister in the House of Lords announced that the first Public Consultation would be in 2023 for the North-East, to include Northumberland, County Durham, Sunderland, Redcar with Cleveland, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees and South Tyneside.
Because of the way the water runs in the pipes, the little Cumbrian town/districts of Alston and Nenthead which lie to the extreme west of County Durham will also be caught up in this insane public health intervention. So too will 21 villages south of the County Durham border into Yorkshire.
Northumbrian Water Ltd (NWL) provides these villages with water and sewerage services, so any household which receives a bill from NWL is threatened.
There was no announcement during 2023 but, not to be caught napping, a website, newfc.org.uk for the threatened areas was set up provide intending protesters with more than enough material for their responses to a future Public Consultation
WWW.NEWFC.ORG.UK
The Public Consultation was announced on 25th March 2024. It's an open consultation so the "world and his wife" can respond. However, more weight would probably be given by the Data Controller, the DHSC, to arguments by affected residents.
The NHS was informed by internal communications by the DHSC so we can expect that NHS staff living in the area have been encouraged to respond and presumably, a response in favour of the proposal was also suggested. Of greater concern were the 300 external stakeholders who were informed about the PC on two dates in March and April. Many of these organisations are pro-fluoridation and many have members. They were asked to "amplify" the PC to their Networks.
The Political Scene (2022)
On 25th October 2022, the Fluoridation Consultation Regulations had a reading in the House of Lords in the Grand Committee. As expected, the Regulations were approved and very quickly the DHSC announced its first area for a fluoridation scheme.
Despite sabre rattling regarding Sheffield, Northumberland, Luton and Blackburn with Darwen and Nottinghamshire, we learned that the entire North East of England would be targeted initially.
All proposals would be justified by citing inadequate and statistically insignificant oral health survey results.
April 2024
With just months to go before the General Election, the Public Consultation was announced on 25th March to a fanfare of vuvuzelas. Only joking! Publicity was minimal. Our organisation is planning a leaflet drop so that currently disenfranchised residents can at least get to hear about the PC. To help respondents steer a way to the relevant DHSC web pages, the NEWFC website provides a portal to all the DHSC Public Consultation files. www.newfc.org.uk .
The cost-benefit analysis provided as part of the PC papers on the DHSC website is difficult for the layman to understand. How could anyone hope to respond to a PC question without having the necessary financial education? And yet, this issue involves everyone and not only accountants.
We have to state that the bias by the DHSC in favour of Water Fluoridation is 100%. For those of us who have intensively studied the issue, the lies are obvious. Will members of the public detect them?
If HM Government and its "Establishment" succeed in the North-East, other areas will no doubt be proposed for Water Fluoridation. That is why it was essential for the proponents to cut out Local Authorities from the decision-making process.
This attempt at fluoridating the North East is against the backdrop of :
(1) Robust research demonstrating a significant reduction of IQ and increase in ADHD diagnoses when families are fluoridated. See the Link below: The Intelligence Studies. Also, a Powerpoint Presentation on Reduced Intelligence.
(2) A short discussion on the DHSC's Health Monitoring Report 2022, about the greater occurrence of hip fractures in fluoridated areas. Damning evidence in the main part of the Report is glossed over in the Summary of the Report. Also, a Swedish study by Helte et al (2021) which showed a 50% increase in hip fractures in the presence of fluoride in people's environment was completely omitted from the Monitoring Report even though it was in the public domain many months before the publication of the 2022 Monitoring Report.
(3) Historical, well-researched proof that fluoride is antagonistic to thyroid/endocrine function, especially if we are deficient in iodide. Many people in the UK are deficient and many have hypothyroidism, especially in fluoridated areas. A 2015 Kent University study compared (mapped) hypothyroidism diagnoses in fluoridated areas against non-fluoridated areas and found 30% more diagnoses in fluoridated areas.
The DHSC's Protocol for the Oral Health Survey stipulated that there should be a minimum of 250 examined children per area. Many samples of children examined by oral health professionals were less than the minimum number of children of 250 per area. As such, no conclusion (according to Protocols) ought to be drawn since small samples provide uncertain results.
Other Highlights on this Website
We've uploaded information on thwarted attempts to fluoridate the population.
An important document by Carole Clinch (Canada) relates to the delayed eruption of teeth when a child is fluoridated. This phenomenon is denied, of course, by pro-fluoridation dental researchers. However, Carole lists numerous research studies with reproducible results which have found delay and just two which deny delay! The URL leads to Clinch, C. (2010). Delayed Eruption of Teeth & Time at Risk for Cavities. http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/Clinch_2010_Delayed_Eruption-Annotated_Bibliography.pdf
Our fluoridated children sustain damage to their permanent teeth - a lifelong condition known as Dental Fluorosis and this is due to over-exposure to fluoride.
The Government turns a blind eye to the subsequent delay in growth of primary teeth, to Dental Fluorosis, to increased hip fractures, to increased hypothyroidism and now completely ignores the proven permanent non-reversible brain damage and intelligence reduction caused by over-exposure to fluoride..
For NEWS and Contact details, access the Home Tab above and choose NEWS or Contact Us from the drop-down menu. There's also a new sub-page entitled "Snippets and Funnies" under the Home tab which will be populated with interesting information which we hope will be a source of hope and amusement for all those who want to see the end of WF.
Comment on current issues can be found in the Editorial page (Home Page Tab > Editorial)
Deliberately added fluoride is not the same as naturally-occurring fluoride
And now a red flag for visitors to this site. Government propaganda would have it that deliberately added fluoride is the same as naturally occurring fluoride. That is very far from the truth. We've created a table comparing deliberately added fluoridating acid and natural calcium fluoride. The table can be found on our Resources page and it's a bit of an eye-opener. The main difference between the two is the cargo of undesirable elements in the fluoridating acid which, for the sake of brevity, will now be referred to as HFSA.
Vitamin D - suppression of information about its efficacy
See also the most recent news item (Home, drop-down menu, News) regarding Vitamin D suppression by the American Dental Association and the ADA's attempt to persuade the USA's National Toxicology Program (NTP) to ignore the science in favour of pandering to the ADA's political agenda. It's interesting that the UK Government (Office for Health Improvement and Disparities) is investigating making Vitamin D easily available to patients who need to supplement with the Vitamin and there has recently been a Consultation which has asked people to send in their views about this.
How the Medical Establishment Covers up the Harms of Adding Fluoride to Drinking Water
by Robert Carnaghan, 1st April 2022
In his article published in The Daily Sceptic, Robert Carnaghan reviews the tortured history of Water Fluoridation in the USA and reveals the damage caused to health by systemic fluoride. The article should be required reading for all UK politicians, particularly those who are slavishly obeying their Party whips.
Radioactive Iodine
by Dr Joseph Mercola, 31st March 2022
The extract below is part of a longer article which Dr Mercola has posted on his website. It's published here because it has direct relevance to the issue that fluoride lowers thyroid function.
"How to Optimize Your Iodine Absorption
While women have a greater incidence of iodine deficiency related to their hormone production, the bodies of both men and women are subject to the poor absorption of iodine and suboptimal use due to environmental contamination that end up in the food supply.
Common contaminants that compete with iodine include the following. By avoiding or eliminating these from your diet, you can help optimize iodine uptake from the iodine-rich foods you eat, some of which were listed earlier.
- Bromide — Bromides are known endocrine disruptors found in baked goods, pesticides and plastics, among other sources. Because bromide is a halide, it competes for the same receptors used in your thyroid gland and other body areas to capture iodine, thereby inhibiting thyroid hormone production and resulting in a deficiency.
- Fluoride — Fluoride has long been known to displace iodine. As cited by the Fluoride Action Network,23 Chinese researchers “have repeatedly found that an iodine deficiency coupled with fluoride exposure produces a significantly more damaging effect on neurological development than iodine deficiency alone.”
- Nitrates — While there are healthy nitrates, the ones found in processed meats such as bacon, hot dogs, lunch meat and sausage may interfere with your uptake of iodine, so be sure to avoid them. Nitrates from agricultural fertilizer, present in contaminated drinking water, have also been implicated as a potential cause of thyroid cancer.24
- Perchlorate — A contaminant found in groundwater across the U.S. and in measurable amounts in milk, fruit and vegetables. In high doses, perchlorate may inhibit the function of your thyroid gland. Even in low doses, it inhibits the uptake of iodine by your thyroid gland, leading to hypothyroidism.25,26"
The entire article and comprehensive citations can be found via the link below.
Important article by Dr Mercola featuring the pig-headed WF policy being promoted by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the UK, 19th October 2021.
We're featuring this article on our Home Page because it is of great importance.
Magnesium - The Tooth Enhancer
Perhaps it isn't fluoride which strengthens teeth after all .....
In 2019, the 5-year-old children's Oral Health Survey found that 50% of the children they examined had dental decay into dentine in Ladywood (Birmingham), and rather high levels of tooth decay in Hodge Hill and Acocks Green Yardley. This was a finding which should have worried the pro-fluoridationists sick because those parts of Birmingham had been fluoridated since 1964. (In fact all of Birmingham and the West Midlands are fluoridated.)
All three districts of Birmingham are provided with water from the Elan Valley. This water is treated at Frankley Water Treatment Works (WTW) prior to being fluoridated and then distributed. Elan Valley water is very low in magnesium. We've obtained a table of magnesium levels in drinking water throughout West Midlands. The shock came when we looked at the results for the WTW zones downstream and to the east of Frankley WTW.
Recommended concentrations of magnesium for adult men and women are 350 and 270 mg/litre respectively. The recommended concentration for children would be between 100 and 200 mg/day. So when we saw the concentration of magnesium in water provided to Ladywood, Hodgehill and Acocks Green Yardley, our suspicious whiskers started quivering. All three districts receive between 1.4 - 1.73 mg Magnesium/litre !
Magnesium is essential for tooth and bone health. According to the Weston A Price Foundation (https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/abcs-of-nutrition/magnificent-magnesium/#gsc.tab=0 ), magnesium enables calcium to be taken up by both.
The scandal of WF is that it injects a developmental neurotoxin into our drinking water and neglects the science which has found that it is magnesium which is the unsung hero.
Processed food is deficient in magnesium and supplementation is beyond the budgets of disadvantaged families.
It's no wonder that the DHSC has pulled up the drawbridge and lowered the portcullis. Politicians have been wrong all this time.
