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COUNCILS TAKE STEPS TO REDUCE WATER FLUORIDE LEVELS
Galway City and County Councils have begun taking steps to reduce the levels of fluoride in public water supplies. They are 2 of several local authorities across the country which are abiding by new regulations which came into effect on Sunday. Under the new regulations the levels of fluoride added to public water supplies have […]
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Irish Medicines Board responds to claims of illegal water fluoridation
The IMB has responded to criticism from VOICE (Voice of Irish Concern for the Environment) that it is in breach of legislation surrounding water fluoridation. In a letter to the IMB, VOICE has asked the IMB to enforce the provisions of EU Council Directives and Irish legislation. However, the IMB said it considers that neither […]
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Why fluoridation must end now
Shortly before the 2001 Value For Money report identified the health service’s critical weakness in policy assessment, one of Ireland’s most sacred health policies, water fluoridation, came under its first intense public questioning. The health minister did not engage with the questioners directly, but initiated instead an official departmental response that did not adequately scrutinise […]
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FG backs drive to limit child fluoride levels
Major public information campaigns should be run to ensure that children do not absorb too much fluoride, Fine Gael has proposed, as it offered some support to the Green Party which wants an immediate end to fluoridation if it gets into power. Though he said he was not calling for fluoride’s removal from water supplies, […]
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Fluoride debate flares
The debate over fluoridation of water has flared up, after the Green Party declared it would stop fluoridation if in power. Green Party TD John Gormley said it would be ‘prudent’ to stop water fluoridation in Ireland immediately. The Expert Body on Fluorides and Health, an official group, countered with a flat denial of the […]
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Gormley vows to turn tap on water fluoridation
The fluoridation of drinking water will cease if the Green Party is elected to government, party health spokesman John Gormley has pledged. Mr Gormley said he believed that the Fine Gael spokesman on health, Dr Liam Twomey, would also like to see an end to fluoridation. “I am hopeful I can get support for its […]
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Greens pledge to end fluoridation
The Green Party has said it would end the fluoridation of the State’s water supplies if elected to Government. Health spokesman John Gormley said that water fluoridation had reached its sell-by date and that the latest international research meant that the practice was no longer tenable. Speaking at a press conference in Dublin, Mr Gormley […]
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The double standard of fluoridation
A few years back I got myself into woeful trouble with the Irish Medicines Board. I had been selling licensed medicines in a manner contrary to the provisions of the Medical Preparations (Prescription and Control of Supply) Regulations 1996. This arose from a website that I then had, which was aimed at helping men with […]
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Plan to reduce fluoride levels in water soon
Committee on Health and Children: Plans are now in place to reduce fluoride levels in Irish public water supplies five years after an expert group recommended this step be taken. The joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children heard yesterday that a statutory instrument, required to amend current fluoridation regulations, had been laid before the […]
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Irish Health Committee fails bottle-fed babies once again
“Instead of acting to protect bottle-fed babies at risk from fluoridated water, the Joint (All-Party) Committee today wasted two hours hearing evidence that had been put to it previously and yet again shelved an important report on this harmful practice” said Voice spokesman Robert Pocock. Parents in America were warned three months ago not use […]
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