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# Don’t drink the water
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/dont-drink-the-water-editor/
- Published: 2007-01-31T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T23:57:59.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Ailsa Boyden Spokesperson, Australian Fluoridation Information Network*

Your article (“Not all smiles for fluoride treatment,” Jan. 19, page 3) brings to mind the need to caution fluo-ridators and would-be fluoridators. In 2007, only the brave or the foolish would choose to begin (or continue) adding fluoride to public water supplies because: a) Fluoride’s harmfulness at extremely low levels is now scientifically substantiated (NRC 2006); b) Waters & Kraus (attorneys-at-law) intend litigating on behalf of victims of illnesses caused by fluoride toxicity.

When class actions begin, fluoridators will have nowhere to hide.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 31, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/013107.pdf?ref=smdp.com)