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Southampton: High Court challenge to fluoridation plans rejected
THE legal challenge against the South Central Strategic Health Authority plan to add fluoride to Southampton’s water has failed. It has now been ruled that the decision to fluoridate the water supply was lawful and the strategic health authority was justified to take the action it has. The judge decided against upholding the challenge by […]
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Southampton: Go-ahead for fluoride in tap water
Renewed efforts to add fluoride to tap water across the UK are likely after the high court gave the go-ahead for the NHS in Southampton to do so. The court rejected a complaint by Southampton resident Geraldine Milner that the South Central strategic health authority’s plans to fluoridate the city’s water supply broke the law. […]
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Southampton: High Court to rule of plans to add fluoride to water supply
FINALLY – today is the day. After years of fighting, months of delays, two days of legal argument and a further three weeks of waiting, campaigners and health chiefs will discover who has been victorious in the battle over controversial plans to fluoridate Hampshire tap water. A High Court judge who last month presided over […]
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Another village falling victim to fluoride in Gondia district
GONDIA: After Pindkepar village in Goregaon tehsil, the neighbouring village Kanhartola is also reporting a number of cases of partial or full disability due to the high amount of fluoride in the groundwater. Over 50 residents of this village of 200 people have been affected, sources said. The village, around 20km from Gondia, is inhabited […]
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Letter: CBRM has it both ways when it comes to fluoridating water supplies
The Cape Breton Regional Municipality appears to be speaking from both sides of its mouth on the issue of artificial water fluoridation. While they continue to add fluoride to the drinking water supplies of Sydney, North Sydney, New Waterford and Glace Bay until organizations such as Health Canada and the Canadian Dental Association go on […]
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Carnarvon fluoridation plan seeks local views
Carnarvon residents have until the end of the month to make a submission on plans to introduce fluoride into the town’s water. At the end of last year the Western Australian Health Department announced a plan to fluoridate water in Carnarvon. Residents opposed to the plan formed an action group and argue the chemical compound […]
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Saskatoon: Renos to water fluoridation system spark debate
Just days after Calgary city council voted to stop using fluoride in their water, Saskatoon is set to begin a $200,000 renovation to the city’s fluoridation system. Starting next week the entire chemical system at Saskatoon’s water treatment plant will be replaced, according to plant manager Troy LaFreniere. Use of fluoride has become an issue […]
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The fluoride debate. The pros and cons of putting it in community drinking water
On Feb. 8, Calgary city council voted 10-3 in favour of removing fluoride from the city’s drinking water. Earlier in the day, city council considered and rejected putting the issue to a plebiscite during the 2013 municipal election. Council also rejected the idea of referring the matter to an expert panel. The issue of fluoridation […]
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Chemistry professor talks fluoride
When Professor Paul Connett was a young academic teaching environmental chemistry and toxicology at St Lawrence University in New York, he was reluctant to get involved in the fluoride debate for fear of being labelled a “loony”. But on July 6, 1996, all that changed when he read a research paper and he realised “the […]
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Legislators ask State Health Department not to promote water fluoridation
A bipartisan group of Republican and Democrat legislators in the Tennessee House of Representatives has sent a letter to State Health Commissioner Susan Cooper, asking that she direct state health department employees to halt activities that promote the practice of water fluoridation. The group includes Beth Harwell, Speaker of the House, legislator-physician Dr. Joey Hensley, […]
United States, Tennessee