London Ontario Canada CIVIC WORKS COMMITTEE MEETING ON JANUARY 25, 2012 DRINKING WATER FLUORIDATION IN LONDON

Drinking water fluoridation has been implicated as a cause of gene damage leading to birth defects and cancer. Government regulators evaluate scientific studies based one of two regulatory philosophies. One philosophy demands absolute and unequivocal evidence of harm ( a body count) while the other approach is called the precautionary principle which argues that some evidence of harm should cause stoppage of the use of an offending drug or environmental pollutant until the item is proven safe by further experiments. In Europe the precautionary principle is written into law while in Canada and the United States regulators depend on elevated body counts to act on a particular cause of harm. There is a current and growing body of peer reviewed scientific publications showing that fluoridated water causes gene damage leading to birth defects and cancer and that humans are genetically different in their sensitivity to levels of fluoride in their drinking water. Some current peer reviewed scientific publications that have not yet been chewed over by the proponents of drinking water fluoridation are described below. These studies should have been sufficient to trigger eliminate of the addition of fluoride to the drinking water supply. Resistance to fluoride toxicity: People are not genetically uniform clones they are highly polymorphic in their response to drugs and environmental toxins. According to a recent repor