The following stunningly Good News has come in from Rudolf
Ziegelbecker and Konradin Kreuzer. The City of Basel, fluoridated since 1962, has STOPPED FLUORIDATION. Our heartfelt thanks to
Rudolf and Konrad for their tireless work over four decades.*


FORUM FÜR VERANTWORTBARE ANWENDUNG DER WISSENSCHAFT, BASEL;
(FORUM FOR RESPONSIBLE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE, BASEL)
Peterstalstrasse 29, A-8042 Graz/Austria CH-4112
Flueh/Switzerland
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e-mail: <konradin.kreuzer@nux.ch>  Also see http://www.nux.ch

Graz/Basel, 27 April 2003

Dear All,

We would like to inform you about the following:

Swiss Canton Basel-Stadt stops Fluoridation of Drinking Water on
9 April 2003.

The Great Council of the Swiss Canton Basel-Stadt has, on April
9, 2003, on a motion brought forward by the Commission for Health
and Social Issues, totally repealed the "Resolution of the Great
Council concerning the introduction of fluoridation of drinking
water for the control of caries". The fluoridation of drinking
water initiated by Basel-Stadt on May 2, 1962 was thus stopped
after 41 years.

The reasons that were given were:

1. The preventive effect of the fluoridation of drinking water
could not be proved by any study. When specialists do not succeed
in producing definite proof in 40 years, the issue has to be
abandoned.

2.  Inspite of the fluoridation of drinking water caries has been
on the increase with children.

3.   The danger of fluorosis is played down, nobody talks about
fluorosis of the bones. The fluoridation of drinking water is
particularly problematic in the case of young children and
babies.

4.  Less than 1% of the fluoride in drinking water is actually used
for "prevention of caries", more than 99% of the fluoridated
water is used for washing, cleaning, industrial production etc.
and thus only pollutes the environment, a very undesirable
imbalance.

Rudolf Ziegelbecker Konradin Kreuzer

*NB  ALSO SEE Rudolf's extensive submission to Public Health
Minister Hazel Blears regarding a proposal to fluoridate
Scotland. http://www.npwa.freeserve.co.uk/zieg_blears.html