“Water fluoridation for public supply, […] is the result of a scientific misconception.” […] “Based on scientific studies […] it was found that fluoridation causes far more ills than public health benefits by promoting excessive and indiscriminate fluoride intake.” […] “Fluorosis is the main disease caused by excessive fluoride intake. In addition to dental problems we have already mentioned, it causes loss of calcium in bones and early aging of people. Such effects have been widely proven in India, where well waters used for supplying several settlements contain high fluoride levels.” […] “close correlation between the increase in cases of a type of bone cancer, osteosarcoma, and fluoride intake.” […] “Water fluoridation used for public supply is economically unjustifiable, for only a small portion of it is ingested. Most of it is used for hygiene, washing floors and clothing, service activities and in the small diffuse industry in urban areas. It is much more reasonable and rational, from all points of view, that fluoride administration as preventive of tooth caries is done in a controlled manner, by qualified professionals, at the right times, in the scientifically recommended form and quantity.” |
06/01/2003 - Ministry of Health and Ministry of Cities - Executive Branch - Technical Opinion
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“regrettably the Deputy had consulted neither a single dental, nor sanitation, nor public health entity, with national representativeness. Brazilian excellence in this field had simply been ignored.” […] “Law 6,050 does not support the ‘high’ intake of fluoride, but rather the intake of adequate fluoride levels. Those are completely different things.” […] “No respected author and no health institution […] defended at any time this strange thesis of panacea. Far from it, the need to combine preventive and educational actions has always been stressed in integral approaches to the problem. […] “The reasons that would have led the Deputy to say that, in the Brazilian context, early aging would be associated with water fluoridation are incomprehensible. Several publications of the World Health Organization sufficiently clarify this issue and they could easily have been consulted.” […] “research […] developed at the request of the British government, concluded that […] it is not possible to say that water fluoridation is positively associated with the occurrence of cancer.” […] “fluoridation of public supply waters presents both the best cost-effectiveness and the best cost-benefit. […] a person benefited by water fluoridation throughout his or her entire life costs the equivalent of a dental restoration. […] In Brazil fluoridation costs per year per individual the equivalent of a glass of mineral water.” |
May/June 2003 - CFO Journal number 54 - Journal Article
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“the president of the Federal Council of Dentistry [CFO], Miguel Nobre, the vice president, Ailton Diogo Rodrigues, the representative of the ABO (Brazilian Association of Dentistry), Nilo Celso Pires, and the oral health coordinator of the Ministry of Health, Gilberto Pucca, delivered to Deputy Carlos Souza (PL-AM), in Brasilia, an opinion signed by the Ministries of Health and Cities on Bill 510/03. The document was also delivered to the rapporteur of the matter in the Family and Social Security Commission of the Chamber, Deputy Francisco Gonçalves (PTB-MG).” […] “The opinion expresses the contrary position of the federal Executive Branch in relation to the Bill and it was prepared with the participation of several representative entities of the dentistry segments […], sanitation, environment and public health.” […] “The Bill goes against everything we know about the benefits of fluoride,” commented the rapporteur of the project.” |
08/12/2003 - Deputy Carlos Souza (PL-AM) - Full court of the Chamber of Deputies - Pronouncement
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“In Chile, for example, fluoridation of drinking water has been suspended by increased infant mortality attributed to acute toxic effects of fluoride. In addition to the evidence of increased deaths of children under 1 year of age, suspicions on malformations, increased bone fractures.” […] “Another relevant weighting is the paradox of administering an active substance to the entire population, indiscriminately.” […] “dispersing this element in unknown dosages, to the entire population, is a contradiction.” |
08/14/2003 - Deputy Roberto Gouveia (PT-SP) - Full court of the Chamber of Deputies - Pronouncement
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“the need to maintain Law No. 6,050, 1974, which determined water fluoridation in Brazil, a public health measure that aids us moving forward in relation to the oral health of our population, particularly in the fight against dental caries.” […] “We need to guarantee the right to health, particularly in this area, which has been developing in the past few years, along with the public health process.” […] “But this is a very fruitful and important moment, for we are moving towards the expansion of these actions for public health, in the organization of the National Health System in our country.” |
08/14/2003 - Deputy Carlos Souza (PL-AM) - Full court of the Chamber of Deputies - Pronouncement
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“the Bill I presented in this House, following the comprehension of 14 Nobel Prize-winning physicians, that fluoride in water poisons the population.” […] “Fluoride is more toxic than lead. And 50% of it accumulates in the human body, causing osteoporosis and increased incidence of cancer.” […] “The needy people deserve respect, but if this justification was valid, we would have to add Buscopan to the water, to reduce the pain of 30% of women in the country who feel menstrual cramps. Today 42% of the population suffers from the incidence of violence, in which case we would also need to add bromide in the water, to reduce this violent state in people.” |
10/08/2003 - Deputy Dr. Francisco Gonçalves (PTB-MG) -Family and Social Security Commission - Opinion
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“The conclusions of a study do not always reflect undeniable truths. […] many of the results that are disclosed should be analyzed with criticism.” […] “This, contrary to what justification mentions, remains important throughout life, since the concentration of fluoride in saliva also protects the dentition of adults and older adults. The reduction of caries implies, in addition to savings with procedures such as extraction, restoration and rehabilitation, in the mitigation of suffering and pain. We understand water fluoridation as a basic instrument and, at the present time of our country, indispensable to promote oral health.” […] “We believe that water fluoridation for consumption should continue to be adopted in collective supply systems […]. Our view is that water fluoridation can be seen as an effective and safe public health measure.” […] “Water fluoridation is considered one of the ten greatest achievements of public health, mainly for its democratic character, since it evenly covers the population, whether of any social level. In some episodes in which the addition of fluoride was interrupted, a huge increase in caries in the population was observed.” |
12/03/2003 - Deputy Eduardo Sciarra (PFL-PR) - Commission of Mines and Energy - Opinion
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“the matter dealt with by this Bill does not relate to the thematic field of the Commission on Mines and Energy.” […] “House Rules determines that no Commission should speak on what is not specific to its attribution and that the opinion, if delivered, shall be considered as unwritten.” […] “our opinion is for the return of that Bill, for it is not the regimental competence of this Commission on Mines and Energy to examine it.” |