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Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation Respond to Toothpaste Advice
Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation (IDOF), comprising 61 dentists, have decided to boycott VHI/Decare insurance products following alarming comments by Dr. Gerard Gavin, Chief Dental Officer (Decare) on TV3’s Ireland Am last Tuesday. An extraordinary meeting of the dentist’s group held at the weekend reviewed a transcript of the broadcast and decided that Dr. Gavin’s recommendations […]
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Can the Opposition pull the plug on fluoridation of water?
It must be lovely for the Minister of Health to be able to go off to bed every night after a nice mug of cocoa and sleep soundly in the full knowledge that nobody is going to ask him any awkward questions in the Dail the next day. It is not that there are no […]
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Teething trouble
Dr Andrew Rynne wants the State to answer his case. The GP claims that fluoridation of public water supplies — a measure introduced 40 years ago to halt dental decay — negates his personal rights and choices. Dr Rynne, from Clane, Co Kildare, is pursuing a High Court action against the Government and is awaiting […]
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Martin defends practice of fluoridating water
Fluoride is still being added to water supplies in the State, despite 11 local authorities voting against its use amid continuing public concern about its effects on human health and the environment. Last week, the Minister for Health, Mr Martin, strongly defended the practice, in response to a Dail question from the Green Party Leader, […]
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Report warns parents on children’s toothpaste use
Many parents probably feel that with children consuming increasing amounts of sweets and cola they have enough to worry about when it comes to their teeth. But a new study suggests they need to take a closer look at their children’s toothbrushing habits. Not only are children using fluoridated toothpaste too soon, they are using […]
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Fluoride – an unproven drug at uncontrolled dosage – Greens
More news from Health & ChildrenCommenting on the current levels of fluoridation in Irish drinking water and the fact that Ireland is the only country in Europe with a mandatory fluoridation policy. Cllr. Mary White, Green Party Deputy Leader and European Candidate for the East, said today that, “If doctors were able to prescribe to […]
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An expert body, fluoridation and a ‘public health’ measure
On March 3 this year, Deputy Damien English put the following question to the Minister for Health: “Has the regulation amending the optimal level of fluoride in drinking water from between 0.8 to 1.0ppm to between 0.5 and 0.8ppm as recommended by the Forum on Fluoridation yet been implemented?” The Minister’s reply is too lengthy […]
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Minister must act now on water fluoridation
More news from Health & Children2 years after set-up of Forum on Fluoridation Govt has failed to implement any of its recommendations “As a follow up public Health measure to the Smoking ban in the workplace, the Minister for Health Micheal Martin, must now listen to the anti-fluoridation groups who are calling for the implementation […]
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Polluted air bad, polluted drinking water good
On the same day that Health Minister Micheal Martin makes it illegal to smoke in the work-place, he himself is directly responsible for polluting 2 billion gallons of drinking water daily in Ireland’s homes. ” The untested fluoridation chemical that he adds to our drinking water is a pollutant according to the EU’s scientists (1), […]
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Irish get teeth into man-made fluoride
IRISH activists and MEPs have called upon Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom to remove wording from an EU drinking-water directive that allows a type of fluoride classified as an ‘industrial waste chemical’ to enter local water supplies in Ireland and the UK. Hexafluorosilic acid has been added to certain regional water supplies in both member states […]
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