Should Deep River stop putting fluoride in its drinking water?
Renfrew County’s medical officer of health says no, but says the local health unit will continue to monitor “emerging evidence” that it could affect infant brain development.
“Overall, in my view, the weight of current evidence does not support an adverse effect of community water fluoridation on neurocognitive development,” Dr. Jason Morgenstern says in a letter to Deep River Mayor Sue D’Eon on last week’s council agenda.
“We do need more high-quality studies, particularly to clarify the more suggestive evidence at higher fluoride exposure levels, and RCDHU will continue to monitor emerging evidence.”
Morgenstern’s letter is in response to a request from a local resident for Deep River to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water.
In a letter to council, Frances Osborne says that new Canadian research “makes the case for removing fluoride from our drinking water.”
The study, which looked at fluoride intake among 601 mothers and their children from six major cities in Canada, showed that higher levels of fluoride during a mother’s pregnancy appeared to be associated with lower IQ scores in children aged 3 to 4 years.
Osborne said that pro-water fluoridation arguments from public health and from dental associations “do not take this new research into account”…
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