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Two weeks ago it emerged that Mr Blair is backing secret moves to force water companies to fluoridate drinking water, whether the industry likes it or not. In other words, he is proposing to mass medicate the people of this country. This is not – as you might imagine – to prevent some terrible, crushing […]

Cabinet papers leaked to The Sunday Times early in May revealed government plans to fluoridate drinking water in England and Wales. The reason given for this move is that it would reduce tooth decay among children in ‘deprived’ areas. Until now it has been up to the water companies to decide whether to add fluoride […]

The controversial issue of putting fluoride into Leicestershire’s drinking water supply is back on the agenda. New legislation currently before Parliament may pave the way for its introduction into hundreds of thousands of homes. Many health experts favour the move, saying it significantly improves dental health, particularly among deprived groups. However, anti-fluoride campaigners are vehemently […]

The government is poised to reignite one of the most vexed medical issues of the past 50 years. Early next month, parliament will debate clauses of the water bill which will give indemnity against legal action to water companies that add fluoride to their supplies, paving the way for the extension of fluoridation schemes throughout […]

********* Douglas is a forensic ecologist and toxicologist, who sits on the government inquiry into the Camelford water poisoning of 1988. Here he tells how he is opposed to the adding of fluoride to the public water supply ********* SHOULD Primary Health Care Trusts be allowed to require water companies to fluoridate public drinking water […]

Toxic industrial waste is not easy to get rid of these days as disposal costs can run into billions. Some polluting companies have found a way round this dilemma by pretending their highly toxic fluorosilicate waste is the same as naturally-occurring calcium fluoride. Dangerous industrial waste is simply sold on to fluoridating water companies in […]

Dr Sam Epstein, Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, author of “The Politics of Cancer”, and “The Politics of Cancer Revisited”, strongly supports MP John Butterfill’s Early Day Motion 1258, on FLUORIDATION OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES 20.05.03, which states: “That this House considers that the only chemicals which should be added to public water are […]

A Gower mum of four is preparing to battle some of the country’s top dental experts and the Government over proposals to put fluoride into water supplies. Beverly Cooke claims the plan is enforced medication of the population. Her eldest daughter, Alysia, was diagnosed as suffering from fluorosis three years’ ago when she was 11. […]

The Green Party today signalled its readiness to play a leading role in opposing government plans to fluoridate water across the whole of Britain. Commenting on information leaked to today’s Sunday Times, Green Party health spokesperson Martyn Shrewsbury said today: “The general trend in the world is against fluoridation. It’s quite incredible that Tony Blair […]

Campaigners for pure water today called on families in Staffordshire to mobilise opposition to new plans to speed up fluoridation of drinking supplies. But dentists’ leaders in the north of the county – battling to treat the most decayed teeth in the West Midlands – welcomed the move to press on with the controversial programme […]