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LISTEN to the people and change your mind. Professors, politicians, dentists and even oyster fishermen are among those today demanding health chiefs reverse their decision to add fluoride to the water supplies of almost 200,000 Hampshire resident A year to the day after NHS bosses voted for fluoridation for parts of Southampton and the surrounding […]

To the Board of the South Central Strategic Health Authority Dear Board Member, It is exactly one year since you took the unanimous decision to implement a scheme to fluoridate the public water supply of Southampton, Eastleigh, Totton and surrounding areas. The decision on 26th February 2009 was taken despite widespread opposition from local people […]

IS this what you thought you were voting for? That is the question Hampshire campaigners are asking of every MP who passed the law giving local people the power to decide on controversial schemes to fluoridate water supplies. Hampshire Against fluoridation (HAF) is writing to the 220 politicians, including Southampton representatives John Denham and Alan […]

For decades, oral healthcare has been focused on the effects of fluoride and how it prevents enamel demineralisation caused by acidic food, drink and plaque because it helps to reinforce and strengthen enamel. This is because when fluoride interacts with enamel hydroxyapatite, it results in fluorapatite, which is less soluble and more mechanically resistant. Indeed, […]

THE SHADOW health secretary has backed calls for a referendum over plans to fluoridate Hampshire tap water. Andrew Lansley described the public consultation carried out by South Central Strategic Health Authority (SCSHA) into the controversial proposal as “not real”. And Mr Lansley, who could be in charge of the country’s health service if the Conservatives […]

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has been accused of making empty promises to the people of Southampton over plans to fluoridate their tap water. Campaigners spoke out after Baroness Thornton, Labour’s health spokesman in the House of Lords, said the Government “continues to support” the controversial scheme. During a visit to Southampton last year Mr Brown […]

ANTI-fluoridation activists have launched a campaign to stop politicians who backed the Hampshire scheme being re-elected. They want to see anyone who supported plans to add the chemical to the tap water supplies of nearly 200,000 residents in and around Southampton booted out of office. The No F in Southampton campaign encourages voters to support […]

The anti-fluoride lobby is calling for fluoride to be licensed as a medicine in another bid to ban it from the nation’s tap water. Campaigners have lodged this latest complaint while they await the outcome of a judicial review on adding fluoride to tap water in Southampton, prompted by a resident who was against the […]

CAMPAIGNERS have lodged a new bid to have fluoride banned from Southampton’s tap water because it is not licensed as a medicine. Calls have been made for the body responsible for regulating health products to be censured for allegedly breaking the law by not testing the chemicals involved for safety. Hampshire MEP Caroline Lucas and […]

THE majority of Calderdale councillors have voted against fluoride being added to the borough’s water. A motion put forward to the full council meeting on Wednesday evening means that towns such as Elland and Brighouse will have more power to reject attempts by the area’s health authority to put fluoride in the water. The idea […]