Examples of fluoridating

• First, the practicalities dictate that fluoridating a water supply should be a strategic regional decision, not a local matter.

• The review found that the evidence showed that fluoridating water helps to reduce tooth decay.

• We shall not make you stop fluoridating water even if it is shown to be harmful.

• Decisions on fluoridating water supplies are taken by health and water authorities only after having widely consulted local opinion.

• Also, when we transfer from health to local authorities, the form of public consultation on fluoridating the local water supply will have to be decided.

• The actual cost of fluoridating milk is minimal and in most schemes has been absorbed by the dairy.

• I have no evidence that any company is making £1 million out of fluoridating water.

• Why have countries of any size stopped fluoridating?

• It is not a question of whether a water authority believes that there is a technical impediment to fluoridating the water to the required level.

• Is not the position that because of uncertainty about the law, few water authorities were fluoridating water supplies?

• We should try to demonstrate that that argument for fluoridating was based on false statistics and that misleading statistics were made to sound very authentic.

• There is, of course, the further option then of fluoridating the water supply in areas with high levels of dental decay.

• This is simply an amendment to ensure that those authorities presently fluoridating their water will be acting legally that much more quickly.

• I see no reason to question the advisability of fluoridating water supplies.

• Fluoridating could continue for a few more months, or even for a few more years.