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Fourteen councils around the country have been given a directive by Dr Diana Sarfati and health officials are actively looking at further areas to be added. Last week Whang?rei District Council, which has a deadline of March next year to add fluoride, voted against doing so. That’s despite having the equipment — paid for by […]

Councillors in Whangarei have voted not to fluoridate the district’s water. The vote goes against a directive from former director general of health Sir Ashley Bloomfield. A local dentist says Northland’s oral health is in a dire state. Whang?rei District Council has voted to reject the Ministry of Health’s directive to add fluoride to its […]

A Whang?rei councillor is pushing for his council to halt its fluoridation plans as the deadline looms for adding it to the local drinking water supply. Kauri’s Gavin Benney has lodged a formal notice of motion for Whang?rei District Council’s (WDC) meeting next week calling for the council to stop its fluoridation plans. The council […]

Waipo District Council is ignoring Te Awamutu-Kihikihi Community Board’s request to push back against the Director General of Health’s directive to introduce fluoride to Cambridge water. Board deputy chair Kane Titchener asked the council to seek an interim order, or some other appropriate legal remedy, to put fluoridation on hold until the end of a […]

Fluoride will be added to the Levin and ?hau drinking water supply from Tuesday, November 19, 2024. In July 2022, 14 local authorities, including Horowhenua District Council, were directed by the director-general of health to add fluoride to their water supplies. The Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Bill passed in the Beehive in November […]

A community board on one side of Waip? wants plans to put fluoride on the other side on hold. Waip? District Council has been asked to push back against the Director General of Health’s directive to introduce fluoride to Cambridge water after a US Federal Court ruled fluoridation was an unreasonable risk. Te Awamutu and […]

At an Extraordinary Council meeting held today, Tauranga’s Mayor and Councillors passed a resolution confirming that they would comply with the Director-General of Health’s directive and fluoridate Tauranga’s water supply from 24 October. While the Mayor and Councillors’ preference was to wait for court cases in New Zealand to be resolved, and for personal assurance […]

Waitaki residents against compulsory fluoridation are drawing hope from a United States court decision. But the director-general of health is maintaining there are “no adverse health effects” in adding fluoride to New Zealand drinking water. On September 26, in a US federal court decision, a Californian judge ordered the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to […]

The Waitaki District Council has “temporarily paused” fluoridation. It comes after it was informed early yesterday its dosing of the Oamaru water supply was above the threshold it had been directed to put into its public water supply. The council announced the pause later in the day. It came after a Waitaki resident provided the […]

Almost half of Wairarapa’s population consume fluoridated water and a recent overseas ruling brings the spotlight back on to the controversial issue. While Masterton District Council fluoridates its town water supply, Carterton and South Wairarapa don’t, and a long-time anti-fluoride campaigner feels the official acknowledgement of risk could help turn the tide of public opinion. […]