Page 2715 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 August 1991
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MR PROWSE: There are some people who cannot read the text. I will table this document in a moment. It is a study that was reported at volume 16, No. 4, of the Journal of Dental Medicine of October 1961.
Mr Stevenson: On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker: The noise from the other members is getting rather loud in this area.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, if it gets louder I will shut them up. Continue, Mr Prowse.
MR PROWSE: The study, which was reported in the Journal of Dental Medicine, volume 16, No. 4 - for those who could not hear - is titled, "Prenatal and Postnatal Ingestion of Fluorides - Fourteen Years of Investigation - Final Report". I put it to you that I have identified this document on a number of occasions. Mr Humphries and Mr Wood claim that they know of no ill effects. The NHMRC had the audacity to claim that it knew of no ill effects, even though Professor Douglas was aware of this report.
The text of this report indicates that a test was done over 14 years on a number of people in a very controlled, double blind study in which the participants were given doses of calcium fluoride at the rate of one milligram, sodium fluoride at 1.2 milligrams, and Na2PO3F at 0.825 milligrams. All of those gave an equivalent of ion availability of one part per million of fluoride ions. So, it was a very well controlled test done over 14 years. For the record once again, in case these people cannot understand that there was an adverse effect, I will read from page 194 of the Journal of Dental Medicine, because obviously dentists are the epitome of all knowledge on the health effects of fluoride. It states:
One percent of our cases reacted adversely to the fluoride. By the use of placebos -
that means that tablets that had no fluoride in them were given also -
it was definitely established that the fluoride and not the binder was the causative agent. 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 was, unknowingly to the patient, given again.
If anybody can say that there is no evidence of adverse effects on a scientific basis, they have not listened; they will not see. There are none so blind as those who will not see. I suggest that Mr Humphries and Mr Wood have
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