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Israel’s health minister stuns experts by ending mandatory fluoridation
After nearly 45 years of mandatory fluoridation of tap water throughout Israel, the country’s health minister—a left leaning politician who was formerly mayor of the city of Herzliya—has decided unilaterally to prohibit it. Fluoridation is now mandatory only in Ireland and is optional elsewhere except in the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Holland. Opponents of the […]
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Israel’s health minister stuns experts by ending mandatory fluoridation
Abstract After nearly 45 years of mandatory fluoridation of tap water throughout Israel, the country’s health minister—a left leaning politician who was formerly mayor of the city of Herzliya—has decided unilaterally to prohibit it. Fluoridation is now mandatory only in Ireland and is optional elsewhere except in the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Holland. Opponents of […]
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Health Minister German outlaws fluoridation of all tap water
Contrary to the advice of public health and dentistry experts in her own ministry and academia, Health Minister Yael German has decided to prohibit the fluoridation of drinking water around the country. She also issued her decision Sunday in contravention of a letter written exactly two years ago by Prime Minister (and then-official health minister) […]
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German ‘reneges’ on optional fluoridation of drinking water
Public health experts say health minister’s policy ignores years of research. Three leading public health and dental experts have accused Health Minister Yael German of going back on a commitment to make fluoridation of drinking water optional, according to a letter obtained by The Jerusalem Post, due to be sent to the minister on Tuesday. […]
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Fluoridation to remain local option
Health Minister Yael German buckled under pressure following near-unanimous support by doctors, dentists and public health experts for fluoridation and switched from prohibiting mandatory fluoridation to leaving it to the decision of each municipality. The decision, announced by ministry officials at a meeting Tuesday of the Knesset Labor, Social Welfare and Health Committee, followed the […]
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Health Minister Takes It on Chin For Fluoridation Recall
An Israeli protesting against adding fluoride to the water supply. The sign reads: Fluoridation = Poisoning. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) YERUSHALAYIM (Hamodia Staff) – A unilateral decision by Health Minister Yael German (Yesh Atid) to discontinue mandatory fluoridatation of drinking water in Israel has provoked a barrage of criticism, including charges of high-handedness, political bias and […]
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Backlash against Health Minister Yael German for her decision to stop fluoridation
Leading public health and dentistry experts, the mayor of Dimona, and the head of the Beduin Hura local council near Beersheba have all hurled unprecedentedly strong criticism at Health Minister Yael German for last year canceling the requirement for municipalities to fluoridate their drinking water. Ten experts in public health and dentistry signed a letter […]
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Editorial – Need to put children’s oral health first in Israeli debate on water fluoridation
Abstract A possible dental public health crisis is looming in Israel. How can this be? As many as 70% of the Israeli population are currently supplied with optimally fluoridated water and oral health studies carried out in Israel over the past decade have demonstrated the benefits. For example, a national study of Israeli 12-year olds […]
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Israel Will End Fluoridation in 2014, Citing Health Concerns
On July 29, 2013, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that new regulations require Israel to stop adding fluoride chemicals into public water supplies in one year, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). Izun Hozer Association for Dissemination of Health Education and Yaacov Gurman petitioned Israel’s highest court, November 12, 2012, demanding that the Ministry […]
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German willing to consider fortification of foods
Health Minister Yael German – while unwilling to change her recent decision to cancel the nationwide requirement of municipalities and towns to fluoridate their drinking water since only a small percentage of the population needs it – is willing to consider fortification of foods to improve public health. In a personal interview on Sunday with […]
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