Rejected petition Do not add fluoride to drinking water across the UK as proposed.

The proposal to introduce fluoride into drinking water focuses solely upon caries prevention & dental health, however, multiple peer reviewed studies, including most recently, in 2019 show that fluoride intake directly corresponds to lower IQ scores, especially among developing brains of children.

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This petition is against the proposal to add fluoride to drinking water.
"..elevated fluoride intake during early development can result in IQ deficits that may be considerable." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6923889/). "The average loss in IQ was reported as a standardized weighted mean difference of 0.45, which would be approximately equivalent to seven IQ points"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/597714

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Date submitted 24 September 2021
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