Advice Sheet by Fluoride Free Alliance UK (FFAUK) Rev. 23rd February 2024
Abstract
The drinking water sold by fluoridating water companies in the UK is adulterated
with heavy metals, a non-permitted Reportable Poison and a developmental
neurotoxin. Of greater relevance is the fact that adding hydrofluorosilicic acid
converts drinking water into medicinal water.
Water Companies’ customers pay for drinking water. For all their adult lives as
householders in a fluoridated area, they have assumed that they are receiving
drinking water. However, its medicinal function is admitted. There is no justification for asking customers to pay for medicinal water when the fluoridating water companies are supposed to, under the terms of their licences, sell treated drinking water.
The Ingredients of Fluoridated Medicinal Water
- Heavy Metals: antimony, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury and nickel which were in the fluorapatite ore processed to make phosphate fertiliser. (BSEN 12175:2013, p.8)
- Reportable poison and contaminant: Hydrofluoric acid
(Deregulation Act 2015, Schedule 21, Part 4; BSEN 12175:2013, p.7) - Other contaminants in the “scrubbing liquor” aka contaminated factory floor water. (Ref: CAL laboratory analysis, 2000)
- Non-permitted additive to drinking water: Hydrofluoric Acid
(Ref. Water Industry Act, 1991, s.87C(2) ) - A developmental neurotoxin: fluoride.
(Ref: The US National Toxicology Program: Fluoride, 2023.)
We are encouraged by the NHS to use but not swallow fluoridated toothpaste;
We are not warned against drinking tea during pregnancy (tea being taken to mean the familiar “cuppa”, Camellia sinensis, which often grows in soils containing fluoride.);
Of even greater concern is that the NHS advises against using bottled water to make up baby formula because it contains too many sulphates and too much sodium (both untrue,
by the way) and instead to opt for tap water in all cases, whether fluoridated or not.
This advice is not considered by the establishment to be medically unethical because the government believes that “the science is settled” and that Water Fluoridation (WF) is not an experiment and is definitely not a medicine!
This latter excuse regarding the medicinal status of fluoridated water is “legal fiction”.
The definition of drinking water can be found in the Drinking Water Directive retained post Brexit and medicinal water (and bottled water) are excluded from its protection and provisions. The definition of a medicine can be found in UK legislation, and fluoridated water is clearly a medicine according to the definition. (The Medicine Act, 1968, s.130). The medicinal (prophylactic) intent is admitted in BSEN 12175:2013, p.19: “Hexafluorosilicic acid is used for the fluoridation of drinking water to increase the resistance of consumers to dental decay”.
WF has never been clinically tested but since fluoridated water is a medicine, it should have a medicinal licence, which it doesn’t. The Regulator (MHRA) refuses to licence fluoridated water as being a medicine and has attempted, without success, to prevent fluoridating water companies from explaining why fluoride is added to drinking water. If no official medicinal claims are made for the addition of fluoride, then no-one can be accused of medicating drinking water. That begs the question : “if it is not a medicine and if it is not a water treatment chemical, why is it added to drinking water?” This causes a dilemma for the MHRA and fluoridating water companies. They think that they can smooth out their dilemma by calling fluoridated water a “public health measure”.
Although the concentrations of the heavy metals are less than the Water Quality Standard (WQS) maximums allowed by law, fluoridated water is not water and the WQSs do not apply. Also, it is the act of deliberately adding heavy metals to drinking water which is unconscionable. How could it ever be acceptable for a water company to treat its raw water to remove undesirables, only to add them after the water has been treated. There is also the issue of the “mixture” effect of different “chemical parameters” combining to increase their negative effect on our bodies when the medicinal water is drunk 24/7 for a lifetime.
The contaminant, Hydrofluoric Acid (HF), is described as “free” in the British Standard meaning that once it reaches the stomach it remains as HF. This small concentration of HF (up to 1.5% of 6.3mg Hexafluorosilicic Acid/litre) is able to cause damage to the stomach lining through which it passes at a speed of 0.005 seconds. (Hexafluorosilicic Acid is a ≥ 20% solution of fluoride so at least 5mg of the Acid needs to be added to 1 litre of drinking water to achieve the target concentration of 1mg fluoride/litre if there is no background level of fluoride.) 6.3mg of the Acid/litre is recommended in the British Standard.
Fluoridating water companies are selling a lie to customers. They pretend that they are selling drinking water when in fact it is medicinal water containing pollutants. This is product substitution. The Company hides behind the defence that it is ordered to fluoridate treated water by the UK Government. They freely quote The Water Industry Act 1991 as their authority to add an industrial waste to treated water and they have refused to answer our questions about the addition of the non-permitted Hydrofluoric Acid. They are not even concerned about the fact that they are adding a carcinogen and neurotoxin even though their industry’s aim is to purify their drinking water. Because of the cowardice of fluoridating water companies, their customers should feel no pity.
We need to be seen to be acting reasonably so FFAUK advises that the costs of sewage, run-off and grey water disposal should be met. Water companies conveniently divide the annual bill into the drinking water and sewerage components.
If you have a water meter, you can only take action if you are told by the water company the annual amount for sewerage charges. If you know your sewerage charges, then follow the advice below.
You need to be fluoridated or threatened with fluoridation imminently to take the
following action.
If you are on means-tested benefits, the water company may already be deducting a weekly sum for water charges from your benefits before they are deposited in your bank account so you cannot withhold water charges. Or, if you withhold water charges, they can approach the DWP to have the money for drinking water sent directly to them.
The Procedure for Withholding Drinking Water Charges
- Ideally, action should be taken as soon as the Water Bill is received in February/March. Anytime between May and August will achieve your aim although it won’t be as powerful. Water companies take money for the whole amount for the financial year over 5 months, April – August.
If you have a water meter, action can be taken at any time. - Cancel your Direct Debit for water charges.
- Set up a Standing Order as a BACS transfer for 12 payments (or less if you’re taking this action in the middle of the year) for the coming calendar year for the Sewerage charge starting early in April. The rationale for 12 payments instead of 5 payments is that it seems counter-intuitive to pay for medicinal water in advance of receiving it. If you have a water meter and if the sewerage component varies month-by-month, then pay the sewerage
component each month by cheque or as a BACS transfer. - At approximately two weeks after cancelling your Direct Debit, send the CEO of the fluoridating water company a letter (Model Letter A) which explains why you are withholding money for “drinking” water. Or you can send a variant of the letter (Model Letter B) later in the withholding process. See the note regarding Model Letters at the end of this advice sheet.
We advise that you do not add very much to the letter/s. We have provided as much as you to need to say. This is not an exercise in quoting common law rights, etc. - Complaint Letter sent two weeks after cancelling the Direct Debit – Model Letter A The CEO will probably send your letter to the company’s Customer Services Complaint Section. You should receive a Complaint Reference No. Thereafter, nothing will be heard from the company – you hope.
- Complaint Letter sent weeks or several months after cancelling the Direct Debit – Model Letter B
After cancelling the Direct Debit, send a very brief letter of your own composing to Customer Services explaining that you are withholding drinking water charges because you will not be paying for medicinal water.
Then sit back and wait for a reminder, red letters, a series of phone calls, a solicitor’s letter threatening court action, a letter which looks like a pay-slip, and finally a referral to a debt collection agency. The Company may even threaten to damage your credit rating which we believe is illegal. (If you were to be taken to Court and if you lost the case, that’s when your credit rating could be damaged, but not before.) You should open all letters but do
not reply to any letters from the water company or from the Debt Collection Agency. Finally, the Debt Collectors will wash their hands of you and will return your case to the water company. Then you may receive a more formal solicitor’s letter threatening court action. This is when you need to send Model Letter B. Do not wait for the company to notify you of the date of a court hearing. If you unfortunately receive a date of a court hearing you will have no choice but to attend. Let us know if it gets to this stage. Non-attendance will incur court costs and an automatic guilty verdict and a charge on your property which will accumulate as the years go by.
During one of the water company’s phone calls and if you don’t have a “call minder” on your phone, and should you decide to talk to them, you will be asked to reinstate the Direct Debit or to authorise a BACS transfer of “the debt”. Do not be bullied into doing this. Believe that what you are doing is without risk.
You will not be taken to Court at this point and Debt Collectors will not come knocking at your door – the water company cannot afford the publicity. Your water cannot be cut off and nor can the pressure be reduced to a trickle. Water companies are not allowed to do either of these things. While you are paying your sewerage charges you are acting reasonably. Also resist all attempts to have a water meter installed.
If you decide to talk to Customer Services, quote the British Standard (BSEN 12175:2013, pp. 7-8) and ask the caller to quote the Company’s legal authority to deliberately add heavy metals (e.g. Mercury), a reportable poison (Hydrofluoric Acid), two neurotoxins (Lead and Fluoride) and a carcinogen (Arsenic) to your medicinal water. You object to being sold a poisoned medicinal product when in good faith you had accepted for many
years that their product was water and was potable drinking water. The member of staff you are talking to, by the way, has no knowledge of your objections. They are employed to get the money flowing again. So, only talk to them if you are aiming to educate them!
Hold firm. No company has the right to sell adulterated drinking water as a medicinal product to its customers and continue to claim that it is drinking water. Remember there are no Water Quality Standards for medicinal water in existence so any amount, no matter how small, is too much. Also, how dare they add impurities after the impurities have been removed? - If all proceeds smoothly, the next water charges’ bill will include the debt from the previous year. Congratulations – you’ve got through the first year. Adjust the payment by Standing Order for the new sewerage charge divided by 12.
With more people taking this action, we will finally be able to mount a “Class Action”.
Please do not “go solo” and don’t try to convey other reasons for not paying up to the fluoridating water company. For example, it would be futile to send them receipts for bottled water and filters and hope that they will be shamed into sending you some money. The Company will do no such thing. If the water company agreed to offset the costs of bottled water and/or filtration equipment, that would be tantamount to admitting that their water is not potable. The company cannot admit that because this would bring the Water Regulator down on its head. Also, the companies’ finance system does not allow for this kind of expense.
The law is on our side once we get to Court. The favourable law has to be tested in Court before we can use it to our best advantage. The more of us who use the argument that the drinking water is medicinal water and is adulterated, the better, because that means we would have more plaintiffs “of standing”. Judges need to hear from people and their little ones who have been affected by the toxin and they are the “plaintiffs with standing”.
In the USA, during 2020-2022, Fluoride Action Network* has identified some mums whose infants had been given fluoridated medicinal water, not realising that they were causing harm to the intelligence of their children, and a federal court case is in its final stages (Feb. 2024). No-one had warned the mums to keep away from tea and from fluoridated water
when pregnant and no-one told them that fluoridated drinking water was not advisable when making up baby formula. High-quality research on reduced intelligence exists and the Centers for Disease Control, Dental Health Division (CDC) and the USA’s Environmental Protection Agency in the USA are derelict in their duty to keep the American people out of harm’s way.
- https://fluoridealert.org/news/op-ed-it-is-time-to-protect-kids-developing-brains-from-fluoride/
Please circulate this advice sheet freely.
Requests for further information should be sent via wmaf@live.co.uk. Also, it’s essential that you send us an electronic copy of the letter which you send to your water company.
Active websites against fluoridation in England are:
www.ukfffa.org.uk www.newfc.org.uk www.wmaf.org.uk
www.lakestay.co.uk/fluoridefreecumbria Telegram Channel for Fluoride Free Alliance UK
For a copy of either Model Letter A or Model Letter B, please write to
wmaf@live.co.uk . Please supply your post code to confirm that you are fluoridated.
Model Letter A can be adapted freely and should be sent to the fluoridating water company a couple of weeks after you have begun withholding drinking water charges.
Model Letter B is for sending to the fluoridating water company once the hassling becomes oppressive and this could be several weeks or months after you stop paying for their medicinal water. It must be sent before you get a court hearing date. That will be immediately after you receive a solicitor’s letter which should follow after the unsuccessful referral to the Debt Collection Agency. However, do not take anything for granted. The
water companies adapt their methods of debt recovery to suit the changing circumstances.
Once you have been sent the Model Letter, remove and add text which is between square brackets [ ] .
Once completed and checked for accuracy and for the removal of square brackets, please post by recorded delivery snail mail and put the PO receipt stapled to a copy of the letter in a safe place.
Don’t forget to send us an electronic copy of the letter.
Good luck!
Rev: Feb. 2024