| Rudolf Ziegelbecker Konradin Kreuzer
FORUM FÜR VERANTWORTBARE ANWENDUNG DER WISSENSCHAFT, BASEL und
FLÜH/Schweitz;
(FORUM FOR RESPONSIBLE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE,
BASEL and FLÜH/Switzerland)
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Graz/Basel, 27 April 2003
Dear All, We would like to inform you about the following:
Swiss Canton Basel-Stadt stops Fluoridation of
Drinking Water
on 9 April 2003
The Great Council of the Swiss Canton Basel-Stadt has, on April 9,
2003, on a motion brought forward by the Commission for Health and
Social Issues, totally repealed the "Resolution of the Great
Council concerning the introduction of fluoridation of drinking water
for the control of caries". The fluoridation of drinking water
initiated by Basel-Stadt on May 2, 1962 was
thus stopped after 41 years.
The reasons that were given were:
• The preventive effect of the fluoridation of drinking water
could not be proved by any study. When specialists do not succeed
in producing definite proof in 40 years, the issue has to be abandoned.
• Inspite of the fluoridation of drinking water caries has been
on the increase with children.
• The danger of fluorosis is played down, nobody talks about
fluorosis of the bones. The fluoridation of drinking water is particularly
problematic in the case of young children and babies.
• Less than 1% of the fluoride in drinking water is actually
used for "prevention of caries", more than 99% of the fluoridated
water is used for washing, cleaning, industrial production etc. and
thus only pollutes the environment, a very undesirable imbalance.
Rudolf Ziegelbecker Konradin Kreuzer
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