[All] People for Safe Drinking Water - CDW Secretariat review of Fluoride in Drinking Water - final submissions due Friday, November 27, 2009

[Carole Clinch]

November 23, 2009

*People for Safe Drinking Water*

Final submissions to the Canadian Drinking Water Secretariat (
water_eau at hc-sc.gc.ca) are due this Friday, November 27, 2009. Please
consider submitting a response to this document.

*The well-known requirements of science are not sufficiently fulfilled* *in
this document:*


   -

   omission of citations for claims, (e.g., conflicting claims in the
   English and French translations had no citation to verify which claim was
   correct);
   -

   omissions of research which do not support conclusions, including
   research by panel members selected to do this review;
   -

   a review panel was chosen with conflicts of interest, and who demonstrate
   a lack of expertise in artificial water fluoridation;
   -

   misrepresentation the National Research Council Review 2006;
   -

   use of a double standard for claims of benefits and claims of harm
   whereby poor quality science demonstrating efficacy is accepted uncritically
   whereas claims of harm are dismissed if the evidence is not of the highest
   quality.

  Any of the following peer-reviewed responses to the CDW secretariat are
available for you to submit in whole or in part.

Carole Clinch

(a) letter: http://fluoridealert.org/re/canada.report.letter.clinch.pdf

(b) response: http://fluoridealert.org/re/canada.report.response.clinch.pdf

(c) omissions:
http://fluoridealert.org/re/canada.report.omissions.clinch.pdf

 Paul Connett

response: http://fluoridealert.org/re/connett.canada.11-11.09.pdf


 *EMAIL to:*

• CDW Secretariat <water_eau at hc-sc.gc.ca> *[CDW =
Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water, authors of
report]
*
• Satish Deshpande <Satish.deshpande at ontario.ca> *[Ontario Ministry of
Environment, Department of Drinking Water Standards]
*
• Minister, MOE <minister.moe at ontario.ca> *[Ontario Ministry of Environment]

*
• Environmental Commissioner of Ontario <commissioner at eco.on.ca>

Thank you,

Carole Clinch, BA, BPHE
Research Coordinator, People for Safe Drinking Water
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