Note from Fluoride Action Network: Do not count on the information in this report until you read the critiques of it as this report contains serious misinformation. Because of its length, a critique by FAN will take time. (EC) *The original review is online at https://www.pmcsa.ac.nz/topics/fluoridation-an-update-on-evidence/ Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor Kaitohutohu […]
News Archive
Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
Our news database is categorized by country, state/province, and industry. This collection of articles is constantly being updated with the most recent global news on fluoride-related issues and events.
Tiwai Point monitoring bores under threat from coastal erosion
New environmental data at Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter shows sea level rise is destroying bores within scores of metres of where 100,000 tonnes of hazardous waste is stored. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon Coastal erosion has already shut down one bore used to monitor groundwater for pollution, and threatens to take out a second. These […]
New Zealand treats animals inhumanely – but it could become a world leader in their rights
Our country has already set examples on issues like women’s suffrage and anti-nuclear policy. It can do the same again New Zealand is too reliant on animal agriculture, an industry which is exploitative and can have devastating consequences for the environment, argues Philip McKibbin, Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images Excerpt: … Our broken economic model is […]
Tiwai Point smelter: Reports detail closure efforts, historical contamination
Environmental experts checking on contamination at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter are looking at 400 samples from 200 sites. The NZAS has promised to close the smelter at the end of 2024 in a responsible manner. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon The smelter company has released a 40-page plan that commissioned independent experts GHD are working […]
Ministry of Health flies blind on fluoridation – by Fluoride Free New Zealand
If ever there was legislation being advocated by the New Zealand government, that on growing scientific evidence could harm mental development in young people, it is the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Bill now before parliament. With fluoridation, the ministry is obsessed with dental health and appears to be almost totally blind to the […]
Toxic waste buried at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, former staff say
Investigators are looking into claims highly toxic waste has been buried in unmapped sites at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Tiwai Point. File photo Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon This includes spent cell liner (SCL) waste that contains cyanide and toxic fluoride, and is banned from being buried untreated in both the US and Australia. The […]
NZ. Letter. A bitter pill. By Mary Byrne
The Government’s latest move on the fluoridation bill to shift decision making solely to the director-general of health proves its intention of mandatory fluoridation. The Commission of inquiry (in 1956) said it was important that the decision be made locally, with local input The mayor of Whangarei recently agreed. So has the National Party. To […]
NZ: Letter. Ignorant or timid? By Connett and Howard
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 New Zealand government is set to introduce mandatory water fluoridation into the whole country. Either New Zealand scientists and educators have not kept up with the science or […]
NZ: Letter. Fluoride or sugar? By Carl Mather.
Dr Roger Tuck (Letters, March 25) is adamant that fluoride is the answer to tooth decay, as it “is one of the most effective public health measures of all time, and has the potential to cut the devastating amount of tooth decay seen in our children”. Surely reducing/eliminating the quantity of sugars, both simple and […]
NZ: Science turning against fluoridation by Ross Forbes
Retired paediatrician Roger Tuck (Irresponsible stance, letters March 25) is well out of touch with growing medical science on how ingested fluoride affects the whole of the human body, not just teeth. He also appears to be unaware that fluoride works best on the surface of teeth, not by pushing it into the bloodstream. Even […]