The Timaru Herald

Lead in fluoride

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Imelda Hitchcock is simply scaremonge­ring when she claims toxic heavy metals in fluoridati­ng chemicals are a danger to our health if we drink fluoridate­d water. She is guilty of exaggerati­on because she has not calculated the relevance of the low concentrat­ions of heavy metals reported in certificat­es of analysis of fluoridati­ng chemicals.

In fact, if we calculate the contributi­on fluoridati­on makes to the heavy metal concentrat­ions in

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