Many people consider water fluoridation to be compulsory mass
medication, because it does not allow proper
consent of the individual being treated The water supplier cannot control the patient's
dose of fluoride, nor can the
municipality monitor the response of each
recipient.
[21] It is also argued that, because of the negative health effects of fluoride exposure,
mandatory fluoridation of public water supplies is a
breach of
ethics and a
human rights violation. l
itigation, both pro and con, has been a frequent outcome of public water fluoridation. In the
United Kingdom, The
Green Party, refers to fluoride as a poison They say water fluoridation violates Article 35 of the
European Charter of Fundamental Rights, and the UK poisons act of 1972 which bans fluorosilicates (chemicals used in the
fluoridation of
water such as
hexafluorosilicic acid). Because they believe that fluoride is a
poison they say it also violates Articles 3 and 8 of the
Human Rights Act, and also Articles 3 and 8 of the Convention because governments are forbidden from harming their
citizens. Such an act also raise issues under the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Water fluoridation has also been criticized for violating the
Nuremberg Code and the Council of Europe's Biomedical Convention of 1999.
