Fluoride and DNA

One view re fluoride and DNA from one of the Safe Water members in Bristol - sent as a letter to the Daily Telegraph:

Robert Colville is wrong to label DNA as an infallable way to sort the innocent from the guilty.

DNA tests can be irreproducible for many reasons, and comparisons are never foolproof. One well-documented way in which DNA sequences can become disrupted is via the ongoing consumption of artificially fluoridated drinking water (or via ongoing exposure to any other internalisable fluoride source, including fluoride-polluted air). This is linked with the ability of the fluoride ion, even at the very low levels involved, to inhibit the enzymes which are essential for the repair of damaged or broken DNA strands.

Somebody should have reminded Health Secretary Alan Johnson about this before he commissioned more worthless fluoridation consultations. Denying the people their individual right not to be 'treated' with fluoridation chemicals - on the highly contentious basis of demonstrable juvenile dental benefits, or for any other reason - is not the stuff of a free society and is almost certainly illegal under fundamental EU Human Rights legislation. This is a matter that cries out to be tested in Court at the earliest possible opportunity, even if it makes crime detection only marginally less reliable!

Bernard J Seward
Bristol BS9 4QP

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I quote the references as I find them in Groves B
Fluoride - Drinking Ourselves to Death
Newleaf 2001

Klein W. et al
DNA repair and environmental substances
Angaw Bader - Klimaheclkunde 1977 24(3) 218-23

Mohammed A, Chandler ME
Cytological effects of sodium fluoride on mice
Fluoride 1982; 15(3) 110-18

US National Institute of Environmental Sciences
In cultured human and rodent cells, the weight of evidence leads to the conclusion that fluoride exposure results in increased chromosome aberration
Zeiger E, Shelby MD, Witt KL
Genetic Toxicity of Fluoride
Environ Mol Mutagen 1993; 21:309-18