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Hamilton voters have been asked and for a third time they have answered emphatically: put fluoride in our drinking water. Just two weeks before local body election ballots close, a new Waikato Times poll, out today, has found voters overwhelmingly support fluoridation. The survey, conducted over a three-day period this week, shows 59 per cent […]

I made a paid hobby, in my academic career, of publicising several health hazards.  The first, in 1971 –  aerial spraying of 2,4,5-T  –  provoked anti-fluoridation activists to accost me for help.  I wouldn’t have anything to do with them;  Prof Edson (Otago) had looked into fluoridation and concluded it caused no harm and some […]

Residents in attendance at a fluoridation meeting held by the Hastings District Council last night heard a flurry of figures from both sides of the debate. Both anti-fluoride campaigners and the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board representatives were in attendance to discuss the controversial issue. The anti-fluoridation side sought to undermine the efficacy of fluoridation […]

Criminal vandalism gets “unanimous support” from the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board as long as you are “passionate about health”. Or do you have to be on a $460K a year salary first? That is how much Chief Executive Kevin Snee was being paid by the taxpayer while he vandalised fluoride-free signs on public property […]

The NZ Dental Association is about to implement rules to stifle dissent amongst dentists over water fluoridation – only a few months after Chief Executive David Crum denied they put pressure on dissenters. From November, dentists who state a view against fluoridation will have to qualify that by saying they are stating a minority view. […]

Flaxmere residents turned out for the final fluoridation public meetings last night to hear the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board and Fluoride Free Hastings last word ahead of next month’s referendum. The double header was held at Age Concern in Flaxmere and was attended by 34 people. DHB director of population health Dr Caroline McElnay […]

Fluoride Action Network (FANNZ) endorses the NZ Medical Association’s call for a national debate on fluoridation. FANNZ has been calling for an open transparent public scientific discussion on fluoridation for some time. “But every time we invite promoters to participate, they refuse. The public has a right to more respect” says Mark Atkin, FANNZ’ Scientific […]

Hastings District Council is to host a panel discussion on the addition of fluoride into the Hastings water supply. The panel discussion will be chaired by prominent Hawke’s Bay barrister Jonathon Krebs and will be attended by 2 representatives from the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board and 2 representatives from Fluoride Free Hastings. Hastings Mayor […]

Waikato DHB says it won’t be at a public meeting about fluoridation after personal attacks, but fluoride opponents say bad behaviour isn’t all theirs. The Waikato District Health Board says its staff won’t be fronting up to a public meeting on fluoridating Hamilton’s water supply because of ongoing personal attacks. But a lobby group opposing […]

Kapiti council hopefuls have been warned not to take sides in the fluoride debate – at least not until after the election. Kapiti Coast District Council sent a letter to candidates on September 20, warning them that if they committed to a position on fluoride and were then elected, they could be excluded from the […]