The non-profit health advocacy group Fluoride Free New Zealand is concerned about misinformation and ongoing scaremongering perpetrated by the New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA) regarding water fluoridation. The NZDA have shown pictures of children with mouths full of rotting teeth, and even use these to lobby councils to maintain the out-of-date crumbling policy of water […]
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.
Infant formula shipment blocked despite ‘1080-free’ deal
Note from Fluoride Action Network: 1080 is the common name of a highly toxic pesticide called Sodium fluoroacetate. NZ aerially sprays 1080 to kill possums throughout the country. This is its molecular formula: The Government has given an assurance that up to $15 million of New Zealand baby formula on its way to China, won’t […]
Calls for Sugar Tax Supported by Dentists’ Group
Calls by New Zealand Dental Association spokesman Dr. Rob Beaglehole last week for a Sugar Tax to curb the high decay rate in Kiwi kids is fully supported by Dentists Against Fluoridation, says spokesman Dr. Stan Litras. Comments by Associate Health Minister, Peter Dunne (Sunday, TVOne, March 8th), denying the need to curb sugar consumption […]
Proposed Amendments to Regulations under the Medicines Act 1981 Report of analysis of submission and final decisions
Summary In November 2014, the Ministry of Health released a consultation paper, Consultation on Proposed Amendment to Regulations under the Medicines Act 1981. http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/consultations/medicine-regulations-fluoride-in-drinking-water.asp The proposed amendment would have the effect of providing legal clarity that the fluoride substances used to treat drinking water are not medicines. The Ministry received 1387 submissions on the proposal […]
We want fluoride in our water – DHB
Northland District Health Board may lobby for fluoridation in the region’s drinking water in an effort to curb high tooth decay rates. However, in the end it will be the decision of the respective councils and that would require a clear mandate from the community to do so. Northland District Health Board chief executive Nick […]
Q&A: Pest-control poison 1080
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 The controversial poison 1080 has a history of causing division. What is 1080? The toxin Sodium Fluoroacetate, typically called 1080, was first approved for use in New Zealand in 1964 to control […]
Transcript of Jim Mora & Rob Beaglehole with comments by Fluoride Free New Zealand
Radio New Zealand – Jim Mora Show 27th February 2015 Transcript of Jim Mora and Rob Beaglehole. Fluoride Free NZ comments in red. Jim: Fluoride could cause depression and weight gain, that’s the headline and the same sort of headline in more than one English paper, not just the Daily Mail. ‘Fluoride added to local water supplies […]
Acclaimed fluoridation experts touring NZ in February
On invitation from public health education and advocacy organisation Fluoride Free New Zealand, international fluoridation experts Professor Emeritus Paul Connett and Dr Bill Hirzy will be in New Zealand next week, 22nd to the 28th of February. Dr Bill Hirzy is a former senior scientist with the US Environmental Protection Agency who was invited to […]
American anti-fluoride campaigner Paul Connett is headed to Australia
Top NSW health and dental experts are boycotting an “open” forum organised by one of the most vocal anti-fluoride campaigners from the US, saying the anti-fluoride activists have as little scientific proof as the anti-vaccination campaigners. A website promoting a February 21 forum with Professor Paul Connett, a US anti-fluoride activist, says he will hold an […]
Push to get fluoride back on New Plymouth agenda
Two councillors are pushing to get fluoride back in New Plymouth’s water supply but facing opposition. Councillors Gordon Brown and Richard Handley have been campaigning behind closed council doors to get fluoride back on the agenda. However, fellow councillor Shaun Biesiek said the pair were the only two pushing for it and it was unlikely […]