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An Open Letter To NZ Scientists And Educators
Any scientist or educator who has followed the science of fluoride’s toxicity – especially its potential to damage the developing brain – must be stunned to hear that the NZ government is set to introduce mandatory water fluoridation into the whole country. Either NZ scientists and educators have not kept up with the science or […]
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CDC initiative seeks to get more Americans access to fluoridated water
We’ve talked a lot about health equity with the pandemic disproportionately impacting lower income and communities of color. Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a new initiative to deliver an important preventive health care tool to rural and smaller neighborhoods. It’s a new fluoride tablet system that works similar to chlorine […]
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PM Modi launches ‘Catch the Rain’ campaign
Says MGNREGA funds be spent for rain water conservation Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a 100-day ‘Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain’ campaign on World Water Day via video conferencing and pitched for leadership roles to women with regard to water management. Also he witnessed signing of Memorandum of Understanding between the chief ministers […]
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Citizen panel will air water fluoridation concerns during Loveland commission meeting Wednesday
City drinking water contains about 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter Jenny Sparks / Loveland Reporter-Herald Shiloh Thompson, lead plant operator of the Loveland Water Treatment Plant, looks through a window into the fluorosilicic acid room at the plant as he talks Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, about how they use fluoride in the water treatment […]
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NZ: Whangarei Mayor slams Government moves to ‘mass medicate’ council drinking water with fluoride
Whangarei’s new $30 million Whau Valley water treatment plant at Whau Valley is one of the Northland water supplies where fluoride would be added if a Government plan proceeds. Government moves towards “mass medicating” council water supplies with fluoride have come under fire from Whangarei Mayor Sheryl Mai. “People who drink water from the tap […]
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NZ: Dental Association Welcomes Pragmatic Resolution To Community Water Fluoridation Decisions
The New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA) welcomes the Government’s announcement that the decision-making process for community water fluoridation will sit with the Director General of Health. The NZDA is very pleased with the news, having advocated on behalf of the dentists and their patients to the health select committee in 2017 that community water fluoridation […]
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NZ: Big Tick For Fluoridation Decision – More Brave Action Needed – Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists is welcoming the Government’s legislative decision to hand over control of water fluoridation to the Director General of Health but is urging even stronger action to improve the oral health of New Zealanders. ASMS represents senior doctors and dentists in public hospitals. Executive Director Sarah Dalton says tooth decay […]
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NZ: What is water fluoridation and how does it work?
Note from Fluoride Action Network: With the rollout of fluoridation propaganda in preparation for mandatory fluoridation, this journalist covered all the angles in her report, unfortunately relying on government officials as sources throughout. Under the question “Is it Safe” the journalist wrote: “there is no evidence linking fluoridation with any adverse health effects, health officials […]
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Hunua 1080 drop: Auckland Council liquidating Friends of Sherwood Trust over legal challenge
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Molecular structure of highly toxic Sodium fluoroacetate (known as 1080). For more info, albeit outdated, go to http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/pesticides/sodium.fluoroacetate-page.htm An anti-1080 charity with more than three decades’ experience could soon be extinct after failing to pay the nearly $30,000 it owes Auckland ratepayers over a failed legal challenge. In 2018, the […]
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Industrial pollution is destroying a Tunisian coastal community — but no one wants to talk about it
Once a pristine Mediterranean oasis, the Gabès region has been devastated by local chemical factories and health problems are soaring Abdellah Nouri has not been out to sea for two years. A fisherman from the Mediterranean town of Ghannouch in Tunisia’s coastal Gabès region, he was diagnosed with cancer in 2018. His condition and its […]
Tunisia Phosphate Industry