Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 7: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a nationwide study on the fluoride intake of the population here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23195/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Ireland is a party to an EU bio monitoring programme which is a tool to assess human exposure to environmental stressors and potential health effects. It is proposed to include monitoring background levels of fluoride and longitudinal studies of the general population within this bio monitoring programme. The programme, which will concentrate on measurement and sampling, is due to commence in mid July 2010 and baseline data on the level of fluoride in the general population is expected early in 2012.