FIRST Minister Jack McConnell today ruled out adding fluoride to Scotland’s drinking water. He said the Executive was instead planning to bring forward a range of other measures to improve the dental health of children. The news will delight campaigners who have fought for years to stop the controversial move. And it will come as […]
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Fury over grants to pro-fluoride lobby
THE Scottish Executive has paid almost £70,000 of taxpayers’ money to a pro-fluoride lobby group, while claiming it was neutral on the issue. Furious Green MSP Patrick Harvie has accused the Executive of bias for continuing to give grants, already totalling £68,500, to the British Fluoridation Society. The BFS is a group of doctors and […]
Executive pulls plug on fluoride in water
CONTROVERSIAL plans to introduce fluoride into the public water supply in Scotland are set to be abandoned, it emerged today. The Scottish Executive is understood to have axed the proposal – which won support from the medical profession- in favour of better targeted dental services. The move is thought to have been sparked by splits […]
Liberal Democrats pour cold water on fluoride bid
LIBERAL Democrats are set to block Labour plans to add fluoride to Scotland’s water. And a compromise proposal – holding local referendums on the issue – is also likely to be thrown out. Scotland has an appalling record of dental health, with 55 per cent of children having dental disease by the age of five. […]
‘Fluoride on tap’ move stirs up fury
PROTESTERS were due to stage a rally later today after health bosses announced plans to take a step towards the fluoridation of Greater Manchester’s water supply. Demonstrators from all over the region planned to target the offices of Leigh MP Andy Burnham, a supporter of the plan, to raise concern over what they claim is […]
Look what fluoride did to my girl’s teeth…
CARENA Smith’s teeth will never recover. Mottled brown and warped, they were ruined by the chemical hailed as a cure-all for tooth decay. Carena, now 19, took fluoride tablets as a child to make her teeth strong. Instead, the chemical – which Glasgow NHS bosses want to add to public water supplies – poisoned the […]
Fury over new bid to have fluoride on tap
HEALTH bosses in Glasgow have been warned they face fierce opposition as they launch a new push to get fluoride put into the city’s water. NHS Greater Glasgow wants the Scottish Executive to introduce fluoridation as quickly as possible – against the advice of one of the city’s top dentists. Robert Broadfoot, dental director of […]
We’ll Fight Fluoride Tooth and Nail, Warns Council
LIVERPOOL City Council is locked on a collision course with the regional health authority over fluoride in water supplies. The council is set to pass a motion condemning the fluoride used in water supplies as being a pesticide. It is also expected to relaunch the school dental service in secondary schools as a better way […]
Public to make fluoride decision
Local residents, employees and businesses will all have a say as to whether fluoride should be added to their local water supply under proposed regulations. Views should also be sought from voluntary public health organisations as well as statutory health and local authorities, the government has suggested in draft regulations from the Department of Health. […]
Fluoridation of Water to Be Decided Locally
Draft regulations setting out how Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) should consult local people on the decision to fluoridate water supplies were published today by Public Health Minister, Melanie Johnson. The draft regulations require SHAs to publish proposals to fluoridate in the local media, and consult on the decision for three months. SHAs would only then […]