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We get the scientific advice on this from the World Health Organization. We also ask the committee you mentioned. It gave us its opinion on fluoride as recently as 2003. It said that the concentrations of fluoride normally present in fluoridated drinking water do not present a health risk according to a large number of animal studies and human epidemiology.
The World Health Organization drinking water guideline is the same as in the EU Directive – 1.5 mg per litre. Dental fluorosis occurs at concentrations above 1.5 mg and 2 mg per litre. Skeleton fluorosis occurs at higher concentrations – between 3 mg and 6 mg. In Dublin, for example, the water is fluoridated but the parametric value of 1.5 mg per litre was not exceeded and, according to this report, the highest concentration recorded was 0.9 mg.
We ask every Member State to comply with the existing legislation, which was drawn up in the light of the scientific advice. There has been no reason to re-evaluate that advice. We have brought together a group from both new and old Member States – all the experts we could call on – and they concluded that they saw no reason to change the directive in this regard. It is also a matter for Member States.
So, in your case Mrs Doyle, it is a matter of trying to change Ireland's policy on this if you think it is wrong and if you think your country is not following the values laid down in the directive. We have no reason, from the advice we have sought, to change the parameters that are established in the directive on fluoride in drinking water."@en1
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