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Fair, free and effective: Green Party proposals for the dental health service
Tomorrow, the Green Party will launch a dental health policy which the Greens believe will enjoy widespread public support and boost the party’s hopes of a general election breakthrough. The Greens are committed to the founding principles of the NHS – including free dental healthcare, which they say could be provided for an extra £1.8 […]
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Watsonville: Fluoridation, fishy funding and a flawed process
The Feb. 23 letter from Rowland Rebele supporting the forced fluoridation of Watsonville’s water concluded with the need to disagree agreeably. Since Mr. Rebele’s considerable wealth has allowed him to provide substantial financial support to the Santa Cruz homeless shelter and other causes, he certainly deserves respect … so I’ll proceed accordingly. His opening point […]
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Southampton: No SHA board members available to receive fluoride protest letter
IT’S an arrogant snub. Anti-fluoridation campaigners have reacted angrily to health chiefs’ refusal to personally receive a letter urging them to change their minds over the controversial scheme for Southampton and surrounding areas. They say the move is proof South Central Strategic Health Authority is unwilling to listen to the people. More than 20 members […]
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Gatineau councillor backs fluoridation
Excerpt: Gatineau Councillor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin is using his Facebook site to advocate fluoridation of the city’s water supply — while many of his colleagues reject the idea despite widespread evidence that it prevents tooth decay… Click here to read full article
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Lambton Area. Updated: Fluoride to stay in local drinking water
The local water board decided Friday to continue adding fluoride to local drinking water. The vote followed months of discussion by the body that provides drinking water to Sarnia, Point Edward, St. Clair Township, Plympton-Wyoming, Lambton Shores and Warwick Township. Board members from Sarnia, Point Edward and Plympton-Wyoming voted Friday in favour of continuing to […]
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Hardware City history: Dr. Dumont, leading the drive for healthy teeth
Excerpt: …It was New Britain, under Dr. Dumont’s leadership in fact which became the first community in all of New England to begin routinely fluoridating its drinking water. That didn’t happen in 1965 or even 1955, but during the city’s centennial year, 1950… Click here to read full article
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Sen. Barnes: Water districts should give fluoride notification
NASHVILLE – Sen. Tim Barnes, D-Adams, is sponsoring a bill requiring utility districts to notify customers if they stop adding fluoride to their water supply, in hopes of avoiding future concerns like those that arose in Montgomery County. “There has been an ongoing debate about fluoride in water supplies, and we need to have a […]
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Southampton: Open Letter to the Board of the South Central Strategic Health Authority
To the Board of the South Central Strategic Health Authority Dear Board Member, It is exactly one year since you took the unanimous decision to implement a scheme to fluoridate the public water supply of Southampton, Eastleigh, Totton and surrounding areas. The decision on 26th February 2009 was taken despite widespread opposition from local people […]
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Southampton: Protesters call for change of mind over fluoridation of water
LISTEN to the people and change your mind. Professors, politicians, dentists and even oyster fishermen are among those today demanding health chiefs reverse their decision to add fluoride to the water supplies of almost 200,000 Hampshire resident A year to the day after NHS bosses voted for fluoridation for parts of Southampton and the surrounding […]
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EU scientific committee further compromised by conflict of interest on fluoride
Its competence already queried at inception in June 2009 by International Society of Doctors for Environment (ISDE) (1), the EU’s Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) which is investigating fluoridation chemicals, has now been accused of a conflict of interest. SCHER’s credibility is thus further compromised by one of its members having actively […]
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