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Southampton: One pint of fluoridated water per day ‘could be risk to children’
IT IS the most controversial public health issue to hit Hampshire for decades. And now the Daily Echo can reveal that drinking just a pint of tap water a day could expose young children to risks of permanent side effects once supplies have fluoride added to them. The revelation comes as health bosses have admitted […]
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Faith groups unite to fight controversial fluoridation plans for Southampton
FAITH groups across Southampton are joining forces to battle against controversial plans to put fluoride in the water. Religious organisations from across the city are coming together at a public meeting this weekend to discuss ways of combating the plans. It comes after the Daily Echo yesterday revealed South Central Strategic Health Authority is continuing […]
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Southampton: South Central Strategic Health Authority continuing plans to fluoridate Southampton water months before being axed in NHS reforms
THE race has begun to put fluoride into Hampshire water – even though most people may not want it. With less than three months to go before they are abolished, health bosses have told the Daily Echo they are still determined to pump the chemical into water supplies – much to the disgust of an […]
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Southampton: Hampshire MP Julian Lewis’s fears over new fluoride threat
A HAMPSHIRE MP has urged the Government to come clean and be honest with people over plans to put fluoride their tap water. Julian Lewis fears residents will again be left powerless to prevent fluoride being added to their tap water against their wishes, even once councils are handed authority over the controversial scheme. He […]
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Southampton: Call to make pupils clean teeth at school instead of adding fluoride to tapwater
PUPILS should be made to brush their teeth at school every morning to improve their dental health. That is the call from campaigners fighting controversial plans to put fluoride in Hampshire tap water. Instead they want health chiefs to introduce the radical classroom scheme, which is proving successful elsewhere in the UK. An initiative to […]
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Southampton: Campaigners lose last challenge to fluoride plan
THE last formal attempt to stop health chiefs putting fluoride in Hampshire tap water has been rejected. The decision by a Parliamentary watchdog to reject a complaint about the controversial scheme gives the green light for South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) to plough on with its plans for Southampton and the surrounding area. But […]
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Manchester: Pupils ordered to brush teeth at school in a battle against tooth decay
Children at school will take a break from lessons everyday to clean their teeth with fluoride toothpaste under the supervision of teachers. The pilot scheme, called Smile Time, will take place at schools in Greater Manchester and will be extended if it proves successful. The town of Rochdale has been chosen for the project because […]
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“Spit, don’t rinse!” – Teeth tools for Notts schools
Just under a half of all five year olds in Nottingham have at least one decayed, missing or filled baby tooth, compared to just over a third in England. Last year over 4000 children (aged 3 – 11) had teeth extracted. To help tackle this problem the County Health Partnerships Oral Health Promotion Team (part […]
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Government unveils scheme to avoid costly fluoride legal fights
THE Government has unveiled plans to avoid a repeat of the costly legal battle that blighted plans to add fluoride to Hampshire’s water supply. Health bosses ran up a £350,000 legal bill fighting a High Court challenge to their controversial decision to back the scheme to put the chemical in tap water delivered to homes […]
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Southampton water fluoridation scheme ‘to go ahead’
The authority in charge of adding fluoride to Southampton’s water has yet to set a timetable for the scheme, even though it will be disbanded in 2013. The South of England strategic health authority (SHA), which is due to be scrapped in March, insists fluoridation of the city’s tap water will go ahead. The admission […]
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