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Supreme Court releases two decisions dismissing fluoride challenges
After a series of cases that have been running since 2014, the Supreme Court has released two decisions dismissing New Health New Zealand Inc’s various challenges to drinking-water fluoridation. The Court dealt with the claims in two separate judgments. In the first judgment, the Court addressed New Health’s challenge to South Taranaki District Council’s decision […]
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Supreme Court upholds council’s right to fluoridate water
A majority of the judges in New Zealand’s highest court have upheld the South Taranaki District Council’s right to fluoridate water supplies in Patea and Waverley. The council has been in a long-running legal battle with anti-fluoridation campaigners New Health New Zealand since its 2012 decision to fluoridate the water. The group has fought the […]
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Fluoride decision: ‘We were just trying to do the right thing’
South Taranaki mayor Ross Dunlop says the cost of a six-year legal battle to fluoridate water supplies in P?tea and Waverley has been a big imposition on a small rural council. South Taranaki District Council has finally been given the thumbs-up to start fluoridating the water. The move was opposed by anti-fluoridation group New Health […]
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Taranaki council wins Supreme Court legal fight to put fluoride in water
A Taranaki council has won a landmark legal fight to add fluoride to the water supply in two towns, and the Supreme Court decision has been praised by New Zealand’s dentists. On Wednesday the court ruled against anti-fluoride campaigners following a five-and-a-half-year, $385,000 legal battle over the water supply in Patea and Waverley. South Taranaki District Council decided to add fluoride in […]
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Supreme Court rules South Taranaki fluoridation allowed
The Supreme Court has ruled that a council can add fluoride to the water supply in South Taranaki, despite legislation stating people have the right to refuse medical treatment. The court made a majority decision that adding fluoride to drinking water did fall under section 11 of the NZ Bill of Rights Act, which gives […]
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Fluoride to return to Hastings water supply after a two year absence
Fluoride is due to make a return to Hastings drinking water from August, following a two year absence due to the Havelock North gastro outbreak. Hawke’s Bay DHB was keen to see fluoride return to the supply and in a paper going before the board today staff said “community fluoridation remains an ongoing and serious […]
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Otago: Council urged to add fluoride to entire drinking supply
Fluoride should be added to all council-run drinking water supplies in Central Otago for the good health of residents, district councillors were told this week. Emeritus Prof Peter Herbison, who worked in the University of Otago Health Science Division before retiring to Bannockburn, urged the Central Otago District Council to add fluoride. Prof Herbison spoke […]
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Otago University study highlights ‘giant’ issue of poor oral health for ageing Kiwis
Decaying teeth and poor oral hygiene among older people, especially those in residential care, is a major public health problem that’s only going to worsen, a leading researcher says. Professor Murray Thomson, head of University of Otago’s oral sciences and lead author of a new study on the topic, labelled the issue a “geriatric giant”. “Neither […]
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Anti-1080 activists claim pesticide supporters ‘terrorists’
Note from FAN: Molecular structure of highly toxic Sodium fluoroacetate (known as 1080) Police have given two men a warning after delivering letters to a number organisations calling supporters of planned poison drops terrorists. The letters came ahead of planned drops of the pesticide on the South Island’s West Coast. The West Coast has been a hot […]
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Ballance Agri-Nutrients faces big fine for toxic gas cloud
Ballance Agri-Nutrients is facing a large fine after a toxic gas cloud from its fertiliser manufacturing plant wafted over a group of workers and two truck drivers. Workers at the Ballance site described seeing a “huge gas cloud” , 20 to 30m wide, heading towards Mauao. Others described it as “a plume of black smoke […]
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