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Hipkins on housing; Luxon on candidate’s fluoride comments
National Party leader Christopher Luxon has been grilled on a National Party candidate’s anti-fluoridation and anti-mandate position. Ryan Hamilton, favoured to win the Hamilton East electorate, has voiced support for groups that spread misinformation about fluoridation. Luxon said the comments were old and “utterly wrong,” and don’t reflect his current views. “I think the comments are […]
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Ministry Of Health Refuses To Front Up To Council On Fluoridation Science
The Western Bay of Plenty (WBOP) District Council requested the Ministry of Health speak to them about the issues raised by the public – including the safety and ethics of water fluoridation. The Ministry of Health have refused to front-up. The Director-General of Health has ordered the WBOP District Council to start fluoridation by July […]
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Fluoridation: Western Bay council denied exemption
The Western Bay of Plenty District Council has failed to get an exemption from the Government’s water fluoridation mandate. Mayor James Denyer wrote to Manat? Hauora – Ministry of Health in July seeking an exemption from the mandate to fluoridate two of its eight water supplies, all of which are currently not fluoridated. The ministry issued a […]
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Legal action stalls Queenstown fluoride move
A legal challenge has delayed any chance Queenstown’s council could be forced by central government to fluoridate drinking water. In November 2021, legislation was passed that moved the decision to add fluoride to drinking water supplies from councils into the hands of government’s director-general of health. Last July, former director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield, in […]
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Fluoride legal action rejected by Waipa District Council
Waipa District Council will not join legal action seeking a review of a Government directive around fluoride. In July 2022, Waip? District Council was directed by the Ministry of Health to add fluoride to the Cambridge water supply. It does not impact Te Awamutu or any other water supplies in the district. The Government directive […]
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Rotorua councillors question safety and legality of fluoridation directive
Rotorua councillors are questioning the safety and legality behind a government directive to fluoridate the city’s water supply. The decision on whether water should be fluoridated was removed from local government jurisdiction in 2021. Then-director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield directed Rotorua Lakes Council in July last year to fluoridate its central and eastern water supplies by 30 […]
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Fluoridation stops at two water treatment plants
Fluoride treatment has stopped working at two of Wellington’s four water treatment plants. This morning, Wellington Water tweeted the news that The Gear Island fluoride dosing shut down at 1:00 am this morning due to a fault with the dosing system. Contractors will be working on restoring the system today. And yesterday, news that another […]
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Dental Association anonymously welcomes fluoride in NP water
The Taranaki branch of the New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA) has anonymously backed next week’s introduction of fluoride into New Plymouth’s water. The branch took the unusual step of issuing a media release without attributing any statements because of the “intimidating tactics” of anti-fluoride groups. Those alleged tactics had left staff at the branch “anxious […]
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Water fluoridation fires up opponents in New Plymouth
There were passionate scenes at the New Plymouth council chambers as councillors came under attack for allowing fluoride to be put back in the district’s water supply. Anti-fluoride placards were erected outside and several speakers railed against the government decision to fluoridate water supplies, while a lone supporter of the move struggled to get heard. […]
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Fluoride set to enter New Plymouth’s water supply after instruction from the Director-General of Health
New equipment enabling fluoride to be added to the New Plymouth water supply is being put through its paces, after the Director-General of Health instructed NPDC to add fluoride by the end of July this year. The Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Bill passed in the Beehive in November 2021, removed the decision for […]
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