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Dental decay ‘hot spots’ skew fluoridation case – claim
THE DHSS is aware of dental decay ‘hot spots’ within the Island that could be ‘pushing up’ the statistics being used to promote water fluoridation, it was suggested at a meeting of Ramsey Commissioners. The claim was made by chairman Mary Bruce, who said the information relating to ‘hot spots’ had been ‘let slip’ during […]
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Throw away your leaflets – DHSS
People in Ramsey who have received copies of the DHSS leaflet called ‘Water Flouridation – Information for Isle of Man residents’ are being advised to throw them away. The DHSS, which is distributing the material as part of an ongoing campaign, has been forced to amend the content, after an inaccuracy was pointed out during […]
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Pre-fluoridation costs
More than £10,000 has been spent by the DHSS on promoting flouridation of the Island’s water supply, in the past 18 months. It includes £6,000 for printing and distributing leaflets, due to be delivered to every household in the Island, and a little under £3,000 on a telephone poll. The leaflet was severely criticised in […]
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Telephone poll to inform fluoride debate
A TELEPHONE poll of 1,000 randomly selected Island residents will be carried out next month to find out if the public want fluoride in their drinking water. Health Minister Eddie Teare insisted that if there was no strong public mandate then his department would drop the proposal. But the launch of the latest phase of […]
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Government fluoridation scheme is unethical
THE New Year will see the end of the Department of Health and Social Security’s ‘objective, year-long information awareness campaign’ about the proposal to introduce fluoride into the public water supply. 2008 will see the consultation phase before the Health Minister. Eddie Teare MHK will discuss with his Council of Ministers colleagues whether to support […]
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Fluoride experts go head to head in debate
EXPERTS went head-to-head as some 120 people packed into the Promenade Methodist Church, on Loch Promenade, Douglas, to hear the arguments for and against fluoridation. The case for each side was presented respectively by Professor Michael Lennon, chairman of the British Fluoridation Society, and Dr Paul Connett, professor emeritus of chemistry at St Lawrence University […]
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Isle of Man: Fluoridation meeting tonight
The debate over the merits of adding fluoride to the Island’s water will reach the public consultation stage this evening (Tuesday). A head-to-head meeting takes place at the Loch Promenade Methodist Church in Douglas at 7 o’clock, organised by the Island Campaign for non-Fluoridated Tap Water. Supporters of fluoridation, including the health department, claim it […]
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