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Does anyone know if we are still putting fluoride into our drinking water? I know we did some years ago - don't know the current situation.
I came across a posting that said fluoride is bad for our health especially for infants and children and some American states are removing this from their waters. What about us in Singapore?
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Actually, one of the main purposes for fluoridation and chlorination of water is to kill the bacteria that may be present in the water. If we actually stop adding the fluorides and chlorides into our tap water, people MAY start getting sick or worse.
Of course, you may choose other methods such as ozone or UV treatment, but keep in mind that these methods only sterilise the water at the point of application. This means that if the pipes in your home are dirty, you're still gonna end up sick. Chlorination and fluoridation ensure a residual anti-bacterial effect even when the water leaves the treatment plant.
Anyway, there was a stir about this issue in the Forum section of the Straits Times a few years back. With the concentrations found in Singapore's tap water, you'd need to drink hundreds of litres of tap water in a single day to accumulate enough of the chemicals to start affecting you. Just for the record, different places have different levels of water treatment. Singapore's level of flouridation is lower than that of other countries. Our maximum level of flouridation is equivalent to the minimum level of flouridation practised in other countries.
Do compare the values here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation#Countries_where_fluoridation_is_practisedhttp://www.pub.gov.sg/general/Pages/WaterTreatment.aspx
And before any flaming starts, no, I don't work for the PUB or the gahmen.
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you know your tooth paste is full of fluoride?
do not ever brush your teeth with tooth paste again
anyway, all of this is a marketing campaign.
first, say fluoride is good, then make sure all cheap sources of water is mixed with fluoride, then say test on fluoride is inconclusive - maybe good, maybe bad so that they can still mix fluoride into cheap sources of water while selling bottled/unfluoride water at a very high price
Edited by ChiBet 21 Jul `08, 10:31AM
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