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Fluoride ruling raises questions
The High Court’s recent decision that former director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield’s instruction to 14 local councils to fluoridate water supplies was “unlawful” raises further questions apart from fluoridation’s health risks. When high-ranking health officials don’t even check the legality of their compulsory orders to local councils, what confidence can the public have in those […]
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Fluoride set to be put back into Hastings water for first time since 2016
Hastings district will reintroduce fluoride to its drinking water in the coming weeks for the first time since the Havelock North water crisis. All other districts in Hawke’s Bay remain fluoride free at this stage. Hastings District Council stopped adding fluoride to its water supply when it began adding chlorine in 2016. It plans to […]
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Western BOP pushes ahead with water fluoridation
Western Bay of Plenty District council will push ahead with fluoridate plans despite a High Court ruling that the national directive was unlawful. The preliminary High Court decision says then director-general of health Sir Ashley Bloomfield’s July 2022 fluoridation directive to Western Bay and 13 other councils failed to consider the Bill of Rights Act. […]
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Fluoride: stop work call
Waip? District Council should stop work on plans to put fluoride into Cambridge water pending a final court decision, a local body politician says. But the health ministry is telling 14 councils its orders to add fluoride remain in place. Kane Titchener spoke to The News this week in the wake of a High Court […]
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Whangarei District Council Stalls Fluoridation Until “Unlawful” Court Ruling Resloved
On November the 23rd, water fluoridation was on the Whangarei District Council’s agenda again. Whangarei District councillors have chosen to pause work to fluoridate the water supply, as Rotorua Lakes Council has done recently, [1]. The Director-General of Health’s directive to councils to fluoridate was found to be unlawful in the recent ruling in the […]
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Rotorua Lakes Council pauses fluoridation work after High Court judgement on mandate
Rotorua Lakes Council has paused work to fluoridate its water supply after a preliminary High Court ruling the mandate to do so is unlawful. “I am resisting the urge to say ‘I told you so’,” a councillor who opposed the government mandate – and wanted to hold off on following it after New Health New […]
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Nelson fluoridation continues despite High Court ruling
Nelson City Council will continue work to fluoridate its water despite a High Court ruling that the mandate to do so was unlawful. Fourteen councils, including Nelson, were directed to fluoridate their water supplies by then Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield in July 2022. At the time, he said that fluoridating Nelson’s water would be […]
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Fluoride legal decision update
High Court judgment has found the former Director-General of Health made an error of law in the process for considering July 2022 directions to fluoridate drinking water. The Director-General directed 14 local authorities to fluoridate 19 drinking water supplies. The process error was made by not explicitly considering the rights under the New Zealand Bill […]
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Fluoridation to resume in Hastings
Fluoridation of Hastings’ main urban water supply could be re-established before the new year says Hastings District Council Mayor Sandra Hazlehurst. Hazlehurst’s comments follow a ruling by the High Court, which determined orders to add fluoride to more than a dozen drinking water supplies, given by then Director-General of Health Sir Ashley Bloomfield, as unlawful. In […]
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Whangaei District Council complies with fluoridation plan despite High Court ruling
Whangarei District Council is continuing with fluoridation plans, despite a High Court ruling that a national directive to do so was unlawful. However, retired Northland dentist and longtime anti-fluoride campaigner Dr Lawrie Brett is calling on the council to halt the $4.5 million-plus drinking water fluoride implementation process following the court decision. The High Court […]
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