After breathing a brief sigh of relief, DHBs and the Ministry of Health must be deeply troubled that after 50 years of general propaganda, four months of a national level Big Brother style propaganda campaign from prominent figures like the Chief Science Advisor, and four weeks of propaganda blitzkriegs from the DHBs, around 30% of […]
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.
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Hamilton, Whakatane and Hastings want water fluoridated
The people of Waikato, Whakatane and Hastings have voted in referendums on whether to add fluoride to their water supply. In June, the Hamilton City Council stopped fluoridation even though they did not have a public mandate. However, today’s Hamilton City Council community water fluoridation referendum results show that 70% of voters want to have […]
Hastings votes to keep fluoride in water
UPDATED: Fluoride Free Hastings plans to continue its campaign to remove fluoride from the Hastings water supply, despite the results of a referendum showing support for fluoridation to continue in the district. The referendum was held alongside the Hastings District Council local government elections and asked people to say whether or not they wanted to […]
Fluoridation in Hamilton – Waikato University Q+A Panel
The University of Waikato is hosting a Google Hangout Q&A session on Monday (14 October) where the public can direct questions to a university panel of experts on the topic “Fluoridation in Hamilton”. Whether or not to add fluoride to the Hamilton water supply has been a hotly debated topic within the local community over […]
‘Superphosphate’ poisoning is actually fluorosis
Animals have been known to die from grazing pastures recently top-dressed with superphosphate. The cause of death is in fact fluoride (not phosphate) toxicity as commonly thought. Fluoride is found in all naturally occurring phosphate deposits, so ends up in all P fertilisers, including superphosphate (single, triple and dicalcic), DAP, MAP and RPR, but not […]
Referenda ‘will not end the battle over fluoridation’
If the bizarre and extreme events in Hamilton, Hastings, and Whakatane show us one thing it is that referenda are an inappropriate way to address the fluoridation issue, compared with the Tribunal process used in Hamilton and New Plymouth. This confirms the 1956 Commission of Inquiry’s very clear statement. We have seen press releases by […]
Fluoride interferes with Essential Iodine
“Fluoridation is likely to be depressing the iodine levels of Whakatane and Ohope people and causing illness” says Dr Mogan Poppe in the Whakatane Beacon last week. Dr Poppe goes on to explain that halogens like chloride, bromide and fluoride have a higher affinity to the iodine receptor and that thus like other halogens fluoride […]
Ex Dental Nurse Changes her Mind on Fluoridation
Lois Titchener graduated as a school Dental Nurse in 1969. She like many health professionals, current and former, has reversed her position on fluoridation after coming to the conclusion that fluoridation is potentially unsafe and definitely unnecessary. “We were taught during our training that diet, oral hygiene and fluoride went hand in hand in oral […]
DHB, Ministry no-show decision frustrates Hamilton Council
Frustration from the Hamilton City Council following the Waikato DHB and Ministry of Health’s decision not to attend a public meeting on fluoride tonight. The DHB has opted out of the meeting citing issues of bullying in previous meetings, while the Ministry of Health doesn’t see any benefits in attending the meeting. Fluoride has become […]
Who’s right and wrong in Hamilton’s fluoride debate?
Across Hamilton, battle lines are being drawn. On one side of town, in the suburb of Melville, medical transcriptionist Hazel Aughton knows she will be voting for the return of Hamilton’s water fluoridation. She wants to make sure children like her grandson have equal access to oral healthcare measures. Mrs Aughton is concerned that stopping […]