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Fluoride renegades accuse minister of poisoning children
AN anti-fluoridation group is to blitz Health Minister Micheal Martin’s constituency with leaflets accusing him of poisoning children through water fluoridation. The Fluoride Free water group, which also plans to field an anti-fluoridation candidate in his constituency, are to distribute 25,000 leaflets to homes in Cork South Central on Saturday and Sunday. The leaflet reads: […]
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Anti-fluoridation campaign hits election
A GROUP opposing water fluoridation are to field two candidates in the General Election – one of whom will run in Health Minister Michéal Martin’s constituency. Fluoride Free Water revealed their plans as it emerged that the Forum on Fluoridation, whose report is due to land on the Minister’s desk shortly, will recommend that the […]
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Probe urged into fluoride in water link to cancer
THE Government has been urged to investigate the link between bone cancer and fluoridated drinking water after a study found 40% more people in the Republic contract the disease than in the North. Research carried out at Boston University of School of Public Health, using data from the Irish National Cancer Registry and its northern […]
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Cross Border Fluoride Cancer Link?
New research of bone cancer figures has shown a 40% elevated rate in Republic of Ireland (fluoridated) compared to Northern Ireland (unfluoridated).(1) The bone cancer in question called osteosarcoma is one of the most prevalent cancers in young males, aged 9-20. There are both animal and human studies linking osteosarcoma and water fluoridation/fluoride.(2,3) One study […]
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Risks of fluoride in infant formula suppressed
THE Government was last night accused of delaying a report into the effects of water fluoridation on bottle-fed babies. This is because there are fears the report would present a damaging view of fluoridation ahead of the release of a major study into the practice, Fine Gael Senator Avril Doyle claimed. Newborns who are fed […]
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Excess Levels of Fluoride found in Some Irish Water Supplies
Polluted drinking water is an on-going scandal in this State. Despite European Union regulations and Government commitments, the quality of drinking water in public and group water schemes continues to worsen. A report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that only 91 per cent of public-water supply samples tested last year, were safe, […]
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Fluoridation Forum. Defensive talk shop
By the time this goes to print we may well have the long promised report from the so called Forum on Fluoridation. Or we may not, there have been several missed deadlines already. But it hardly matters. My prediction for the outcome of this most biased of talk shops is that the status quo will […]
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Intel Ireland Seeks Less Stringent Fluoride Regulations
INTEL Ireland is seeking changes in nine conditions proposed by the Environment Protection Agency in its proposed pollution control licence for FAB 24 plant at Leixlip. In most some cases the company wants to raise permissible limits being proposed by the EPA which wants more conditions on the company than existed for its previous licence. […]
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Kildare Doctor Challenges State over Fluoridation
High Court proceedings were issued on Friday challenging the government’s 40-year-old fluoridation policy. Dr Andrew Rynne, a Co Kildare family doctor, issued proceeding against the Minister for Health, Eastern Regional Health Authority, Kildare Co Council, the Attorney General and the state. Some dentists have also stepped up their opposition to fluoridation. The 15-member Irish Dentists […]
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Dentists to sue over continued fluoridation of drinking water
A GROUP of Irish dentists are to sue the Minister for Health, Micheál Martin, for continuing to fluoridate drinking water. The dentists, who are breaking ranks with the Irish Dental Association, plan to lodge papers with the High Court after handing a letter of protest into the Dáil on Friday. The move comes as the […]
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