Should water companies be banned form adding fluoride to our water?

[Tefal]

and in water fluoride is about 0.7mg per ml

so 0.7g per l, so for 5 grams (bare minimum) 7.14 liters needed to be drunk at once. given about 5-6 liters of water drank at once will kill you anyway you're pretty good.

edit: i'm an idiot, added a second m, 7/14 tons of water

 

[ChroniC]

You choose to eat tomatoes, you choose to drink tap water.



Cost. In the US at least it costs roughly $1 per person, per year to add it to the water. That's $300,000 dollars per year.

,000

 

[muon]

and in water fluoride is about 0.7mg per ml

so 0.7g per l, so for 5 grams (bare minimum) 7.14 liters needed to be drunk at once. given about 5-6 liters of water drank at once will kill you anyway you're pretty good.

Off by a few orders of magnitude. It is 0.5-1mg per litre.

 

[ennogs]

Instead of reading articles from news sources, YouTube videos or the side of a box of toothpaste, read the scientific literature on fluoridation. That would give you a much better grounding on the evidence of any health risks.

I'll also mention your obvious flaw in logic when you point out the warning on the toothpaste box. It says consult a poison centre in case of an overdose but you've assumed that this is because of the flouride and not the myriad of other ingredients.

Actually it was a documentary I watched. It was about 3 years ago. It was made by somebody with a PHD in chemistry and who works in the industry. I can't for the life me me think of the title of the documentary though.

I assume it is fluoride they are warning you about on the toothpaste because in the documentary I watched they claimed the warnings on toothpaste was because of using fluoride as an ingredient.

 

[Tefal]

Off by a few orders of magnitude. It is 0.5-1mg per litre.

my apologies miss read

thought it seemed odd but im busy with other things to check so only 7,000 ish liters of water to od then

 

[Raikiri]

,000

My bad. Had a couple of beers (which are considerably more toxic than the fluoride in water).

 

[Tefal]

Lol. But you are still saying eating toothpaste can cause a problem. They are covering their backs because as they say on the labels if you eat more than you put on toothbrush consults your poisons center. They don't say if you eat a load of toothpaste. They say if you eat more than you put on your toothbrush I don't know about you but I would say I put roughly 1 teaspoon full of toothpaste on my toothbrush.

you put one teaspoon on your brush?

Spoiler

 

[ennogs]

your toothpaste pic is 1000ppm


so say 1 milligram is one part, thats 1 gram in 1kg of toothpaste.

So to die you're going to need to swallow 5kg of the stuff.

Good luck with that.

When did I say eating toothpaste could kill you?

 

[Aod]

You guys should probably be aware that the reason why toothpaste cannot be consumed is because toothpaste is, essentially, mint-flavoured soap. Soap is NOT EDIBLE and that's why you spit out the toothpaste-foam when you've finished brushing your teeth.

 

[Rimsy]

you put one teaspoon on your brush?

Spoiler

Having read this thread I'm not sure he's entirely sure what a teaspoon is..

 

[ennogs]

you put one teaspoon on your brush?

Spoiler

Ok I going by that photo I obviously put a less than teaspoon full of toothpaste on my toothbrush. So they are saying if you eat more than you put on your toothbrush (less than one teaspoon full) consult a poisons center.

 

[Tefal]

If fluoride is safe in minute amounts and good for fighting cavities why do some uk companies add it and some don't?

if it just makes people dumb why would companies add it and not others?

 

[Tefal]

Ok I going by that photo I obviously put a less than teaspoon full of toothpaste on my toothbrush. So they are saying if you eat more than you put on your toothbrush (less than one teaspoon full) consult a poisons center.

No they're saying do that if your child under 6 eats the stuff phone poison control.

children are much more sensitive to this kinda of thing than you are because they have very little body mass.
(and because they might get sued, if someone eats a whole tube full and gets ill or something this ay they're completely covered)
to prove this i'll happily eat table spoon full and report back if i die.

 

[Westyfield2]

Fluoridation of drinking water is a good idea, well unless you're a Dentist! LOL at conspiracy theory nutters.


It is an interesting point though... should the government be adding chemicals to our tap water? Shouldn't it just be water? If you want to add fluoride for the health benefits (which is sensible) you can choose do it yourself alongside your water softener/etc. That way it's you're choice, rather than the government telling you what to do.
<said Ron Swanson or any Libertarian>

 

[Redz]

Everything will kill you in an excessive dose. Even Jaffa Cakes.

That sounds like a pretty good way to go to be honest.

 

[Camarilla]

to prove this i'll happily eat table spoon full and report back if i die.

At least your corpse would have a minty fresh smile

 

[alex20000]

Love it. This **** never gets old.

 

[Suarez7]

Ate half a tube of toothpaste as a kid, didn't die.

 

[Feef]

This is one of those wonderful threads where the OP ignores all the people who make sensible points and just keeps on ranting anyway.

Quick search reveals he also uses "sheeple", which, while unsurprising, I still feel should be instantly bannable.

 

[Wallace]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemophobia