Earl Baldwin of Bewdleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
What have been their financial contributions to the British Fluoridation Society over the last 10 years. [HL1365]
§ Baroness Jay of PaddingtonTotal core and project funding was as follows:
Year £ 1987–88 20,000 1988–89 30,000 1989–90 31,000 1990–91 45,784 1991–92 51,491 1992–93 56,000 1993–94 62,247 1994–95 63,000 1995–96 74,000 1996–97 117,609 1997–98 90,000
Earl Baldwin of Bewdleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will list the sources, industrial or otherwise, of fluorides used in current water fluoridation schemes in the United Kingdom. [HL1364]
§ Baroness Jay of PaddingtonThis is commercially confidential information which is not routinely collected by government.
Earl Baldwin of Bewdleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will cite studies in which crippling skeletal fluorosis or preclinical fluorosis has been looked for in the United Kingdom by assay of personal fluoride intake from all sources. [HL1363]
§ Baroness Jay of PaddingtonThere is no assay capable of measuring long-term exposure to fluoride, although bone fluoride levels are the most relevant measure of accumulation in the target organ. Studies of 145WA bone structure, bone fluoride content, radiographic findings, and musculoskeletal symptoms, in relation to indices of occupational and dietary exposure to fluoride, are summarised in the 1976 report Fluoride, Teeth and Health from the Royal College of Physicians of London, copies of which are available in the Library. In the United Kingdom, there has been only one report of probable non-occupational clinical skeletal fluorosis (in 1966); the source of this man's fluoride exposure could not be established.
Earl Baldwin of Bewdleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by the Baroness Jay of Paddington on 23 March (WA 234), whether their assumption that crippling skeletal fluorosis is typically associated with fluoride intakes of 20–80 mg daily for 10–20 years implies that a daily intake from all sources of 3 mg will constitute a probable health risk within a period of 70 years. [HL1362]
§ Baroness Jay of PaddingtonNo. Studies of the fluoride content and structure of bone, and radiological surveys, in communities in the United Kingdom and United States of America have not demonstrated clinical skeletal fluorosis even when fluoride levels occurring naturally in drinking-water were several times that used in optimal fluoridation of the water supply.