Source: Spak, C.J., L.I. Hardell and P. De Chateau (1983). “Fluoride in human milk”. Acta Paediatr Scand. 1983 Sep; 72(5):699-701. 

Infants' and fluoridated baby formula

We are outraged that in order to attempt to reduce dental decay, fluoridated people have to drink arsenic and lead!  Infants fed on baby formula made up with water containing Hexafluorosilicic acid are overdosed on Arsenic, Lead and Fluoride.

This Year (2023) the case against water fluoridation revolves around a Federal Court Case in the USA where the petitioners are asking the Court to oblige the Environmental Protection (!) Agency (EPA) to process the Petition submitted by several Non-Governmental Agencies in 2016 and strengthened in 2020/21.  The Petition asked the EPA to apply the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to fluoride. 

There is more than ample evidence that fluoride in the womb and in fluoridated baby formula has the effect of reducing a child's intelligence and it also causes ADHD and sleeplessness amongst teenagers.   For example, to date (21st March 2023) there have been 401 research studies worldwide which have assessed reduced intelligence and over-exposure to fluoride in humans and animals.  Of the greatest concern, out of 83 human studies, 74 have found reduced intelligence in the order of 5-6 IQ points when exposed to 0.7mg fluoride/litre water.  (www.fluoridealert.org) 

When results are reproducible and the majority of those results confirm that fluoride and reduced intelligence go hand in hand, it would be a very foolhardy politician who could ignore these findings.  However, we're not holding our breath: DHSC's 3rd Health Monitoring Report hit the decks last spring and, once again, the DHSC-OHID glossed over the two most serious accusations about WF: reduced intelligence and hypothyroidism. 

In addition, although the Monitoring Committee found a greater incidence of hip fractures in fluoridated areas, their lay summary denies its own statistics.  Thus, the Committee's finding of 5-10% more hip fractures (which is statistically significant) has been buried.  Of greater concern: the Swedish study on hip fractures by Hilte et al in 2021 was omitted from the evidence in the monitoring report.  Hilte and her colleagues found a 50% increase in hip fractures in areas which are naturally fluoridated with calcium fluoride.

In 2003, the UK Government's Committee on Toxicity (CoT) advised that no more than 0.05 mg fluoride per kilo body weight per day should be given to 6-month-old babies. (Also see below under the heading The UK Committee on Toxicity.)  The tables below demonstrate that this is clearly not happening in reality. 

Moreover,  infants below the age of 6 months are overdosing on fluoride when bottle fed using powdered formula in a fluoridated area.  In areas where there is natural fluoride such as in Hartlepool at 1.3mg fluoride/litre, infants are more challenged.  We also have to consider the insult to the developing brains of the preborn child when the mother is fluoridated and/or drinks tea which contains highish levels of fluoride.   The subject of reduced intelligence caused by fluoride is discussed on our page Objections to Fluoridation.

https://fluoridealert.org/news/us-government-releases-censored-documents-detailing-fluorides-impact-on-childhood-iq/

* Committee on Toxicity (2002).  Consideration of Fluoride in the 1997 Total Diet Survey,  https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20200803134828/https://cot.food.gov.uk/cotstatements/cotstatementsyrs/cotstatements2003/fluorine   The relevant paragraph states:

"46.  We note that the most sensitive effect of fluoride in humans appears to be dental fluorosis, which occurs in children under the age of 8 years. A total fluoride intake of 0.05 mg/kg bw/day represents a NOAEL for moderate (aesthetically significant) dental fluorosis."  (NOAEL = Non-Observable Adverse Effect Level)

The CoT was only interested in children over the age of 6 months whose secondary teeth enamel is starting to develop.  Since it has now been confirmed by the USA's National Toxicology Program that "fluoride can reduce intelligence" then the intake of fluoride in infants is of greater concern.  The CoT needs to consider the current science.  In the meantime if we apply the NOAEL of 0.05 mg fluoride/kilo body weight/day to infants, we can begin to see the awful truth.  In fact, we are told that :

"Most infants from birth to age 12 months who consume predominantly powdered and liquid concentrate formula are likely to exceed the upper tolerable limit [of fluoride] if the formula is reconstituted with optimally fluoridated water (0.7 - 1.2 ppm).”  (Reference: Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA), October 2009.

It's doesn't bear thinking about.   

The Powerpoint Presentation linked below (March 2023) has been written to highlight this scandalous disregard of fluoridating governments to fluoride's role in reducing intelligence.



The Position and Policy of the NHS

The NHS encourages new parents to use tap water when making up baby formula.  As explained in "Sodium and Sulphates in Water", this is wrong advice.  It is also wrong because the NHS has clearly not yet learned that fluoridated water is the worst thing you can give an infant when formula-feeding.  Slowly emerging science has pointed an accusing finger at systemic fluoride for reducing a child's intelligence.  On 15th March 2023, we finally had confirmation that this is indeed the case: "Fluoride can reduce intelligence."  Go to https://fluoridealert.org/news/us-government-releases-censored-documents-detailing-fluorides-impact-on-childhood-iq/).

The tables and worked example below analyses babies' weights, their consumption of formula and fluoride and compares the level of consumption with the recommended maxima.  IN EVERY CASE, the infant and baby are over-exposed if they live in a fluoridated area and if they are given formula to which fluoridated water is added.

So, giving an infant formula made up with fluoridated water is very likely to ensure that that child will never attain high grades.  Its life chances are reduced.  Perhaps, the child will end up doing menial work.  It may even be "special needs" for a lifetime of low achievement.  A political science theory by George Kent (Political Economy of Hunger, 2008) is that hungry people are hard workers because even though their wages are small, they are enough to keep them fed and in their place.  The elitists, for example the World Economic Forum, need to keep people hungry because they are the ones who are prepared to do menial work which most of us don't want to do.  So, "the poor will always be with us".  That seriously calls into question the UK Government's wish to reduce inequalities across social groups.  Intelligent people are unlikely to be amongst the hungry poor so it is in the interest of the elite to ensure that there is always a large pool of less intelligent people who are hungry.  Food banks and the inflated costs of gas and electricity are both now part of daily living.

The issue of reduced intelligence due to over-exposure to fluoride which we have attempted to bring into the open by sending every member of the UK Parliament information on the link between fluoride over-exposure and lowered intelligence has been ignored.

With this political science theory in mind, we encourage the visitor to now look at the fluoride over-exposure tables.