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MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Excuse me, Mr Prowse but are you seeking leave to have those two documents tabled?
MR PROWSE: I am.
Leave granted.
MR PROWSE: (Extension of time granted) I would also like to table the original report that has been quoted in the Abbott Laboratories letter.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Are you seeking leave to table that as well, Mr Prowse?
MR PROWSE: Yes, I seek leave.
Leave granted.
MR PROWSE: This report is from volume 16, No. 4 of the Journal of Dental Medicine. Note that it is from the Journal of Dental Medicine. Here we have a document that even the pro-fluoridists acclaim as being the epitome of scientific research and therefore not to be challenged. I would agree with that. It is from the Journal of Dental Medicine, October 1961, and the name of the report is "Prenatal and Postnatal Ingestion of Fluorides - Fourteen Years of Investigation - Final Report" by Reuben Feltman, DDS, and George Kosel, BS, MS.
I will not read the whole of it, but this is a pro-fluoride report. It supports the statement that fluoride crosses the placental barrier; they looked at embryos; they did a very intensive research over 14 years. Let me read to you one of the statements in this:
One per cent of our cases reacted adversely to the fluoride.
I repeat that one per cent of the cases reacted adversely to fluoride. It continues:
By the use of placebos, it was definitely established that the fluoride and not the binder was the causative agent.
I repeat that by the use of placebos it was established that fluoride, not the binder, was the causative agent. Further, it states:
These reactions, occurring in gravid women and in children of all ages in the study group affected the dermatologic, gastro-intestinal and neurological systems. Eczema, atopic dermatitis, urticaria, epigastric distress, emesis, and headache have all occurred with the use of fluoride and disappeared upon the use of placebo tablets, only to recur when the fluoride tablet
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