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Scientists slam Irish fluoridation report
The report of the Forum on Fluoridation, which recommends the continued fluoridation of public water supplies in Ireland, has been severely criticised by a group of international scientists. According to the scientists, the report’s primary conclusion that there are no adverse health effects from fluoridation, is ‘blatantly false’ and the only conclusion that they can […]
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Report slams fluoridation policy
A scientific report slamming the government’s report into the fluoridation of Irish water, released in September, will be presented this week. The Voice report, written by leading scientists in the US, Britain and New Zealand, says the effectiveness of water fluoridation is not proved and that the government’s suggested small reduction of fluoride in the […]
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War continues over fluoridation…
The issue of fluoridation, adding fluoride to our public drinking water supplies, is a highly emotive one in Ireland. While some argue that it has led to better dental health, others view it as ‘mass medication’ with a substance that could actually be detrimental to health. In an effort to answer some of the many […]
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Taking us for gombeens on fluoridation
What kind of idiots does Minister Micheál Martin take us all to be? Or does he honestly believe that we are all such stupid gobshites that we can be codded at will or that we can’t recognise a set-up and a sham when we see one? Clearly, the Minister is beginning to believe that this […]
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Green Party Chairman discusses Fluoridation Forum
Sir, – Patrick Flanagan (September 14th) castigates me for describing the Fluoridation Forum Report (which he claims I had not studied properly) as a ‘whitewash’. Surely Dr Flanagan knows the publication of the report was inexplicably delayed and anyone interested in the issue already knew its main ‘findings’. Indeed, I predicted in a press release, […]
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Fluoridation Forum report flunks test
Dear All, Finally the Fluoridation Forum report is out (September 10, 2002) and can be found at http://www.doh.ie/publications/fluoridation.html. As expected they flunked my test. I had presented to the Forum (in person) my “50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation” and argued that the way they could demonstrate to me and the Irish people that they were […]
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Upgrades needed ‘to control fluoride’
FLUORIDATION of some public water supplies may have to stop until plants and technology are upgraded to properly control the amounts of fluoride added. The Government’s Fluoridation Forum, which presented its final report yesterday, has also called for a one-third reduction in the amount of fluoride added in all existing fluoridated supplies. It says of […]
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Minister for Health defends fluoridation; Greens want to ban it
The Minister for Health, Mr Martin, has defended th fluoridation of public water supplies in the State as a ‘safe and effective’ public health policy following the publication of a report which endorses it. The Forum on Fluoridation, which Mr Martin set up two years ago, concluded in a report published yesterday that fluoridation was […]
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Fluoride use in drinking water to continue
ANTI-FLUORIDATION campaigners have reacted with disappointment to suggestions that the Minister for Health’s review committee will recommend that public water supplies continue to be dosed with fluoride. The Fluoridation Forum’s report, due for publication next Tuesday, is expected to recommend that the fluoride dose be reduced rather than discontinued and that further research be carried […]
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UK government decision yet another blow to Irish fluoridation policy
Today’s decision of the UK’s Medical Research Council(‘MRC’) to investigate total fluoride exposure of individuals in the UK is another blow to Irish fluoridation. The UK has conceded that action is now needed despite the fact that only 10 % of UK people are exposed to fluoridated water versus 73% here in Ireland . Here, […]
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