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Fury over new bid to have fluoride on tap
HEALTH bosses in Glasgow have been warned they face fierce opposition as they launch a new push to get fluoride put into the city’s water. NHS Greater Glasgow wants the Scottish Executive to introduce fluoridation as quickly as possible – against the advice of one of the city’s top dentists. Robert Broadfoot, dental director of […]
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Fluoride alert for children
TAP water could be lowering children’s intelligence, leading experts have warned. Top doctors claim fluqride in drinking water can interfere with a child’s brain function. They believe this can lower IQ levels and lead to behavioural problems. Last night Dr Vyvian Howard, an expert in chemicals and infant health at Liverpool University, told of his […]
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Don’t toy with fluoride
OUR Government has the best of motives in wanting to extend the fluoridisation of our water supply. But it is embarking on a risky experiment which, as we report today, some believe could lower children’s intelligence, lead to behavioural problems and cause health problems in adults. Our modern sugary diet is not only making our […]
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Scotland to face yet another fluoridation push
FLUORIDE will be added to large parts of Scotland’s water supply as part of a controversial compromise plan by the Scottish executive to mass medicate children. Labour ministers, who have faced widespread opposition to blanket fluoridation, will instead give health boards the power to order Scottish Water to add the chemical to supplies following public […]
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Fluoride fears flare over delay in health study
THE Scottish Executive is being pressed to release the findings of a consultation exercise on the health of children’s teeth amid concern over the possibility of adding fluoride to the water supply. The consultation was launched in 2002, originally for three months and later extended into 2003, with the results expected to be released by […]
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Scottish MP Predicts Backlash
THE Scots MP at the forefront of the campaign to stop the fluoridation of water predicts the Government will be given the all-clear today. Cunninghame South MP Brian Donohoe believes plans to fluoridate water supplies throughout the UK to fight child tooth decay will be carried at today’s second reading in the Commons – but […]
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Tell Scots the truth about fluoride, say Greens
Green MSP Robin Harper has made a second plea to the Scottish Executive to come clean on its fluoride policy on the day that Westminster rubber-stamps legislation that could mean most of the UK’s water authorities are forced to put the chemical in their supplies. People in Scotland do not know whether they will be […]
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Greens will fight any fluoride in water plans
GREEN MSPs today vowed to fight any plans by the Scottish Executive to put fluoride in Scotland’s water. They spoke out as plans were finalised in Westminster for fluoridation in England and Wales. Lothians Green MSP Robin Harper has written to First Minister Jack McConnell asking him to reassure the people of Scotland that their […]
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Scots sink teeth into fluoride plan
PLANS to add fluoride to Scotland’s drinking water seem certain to be scrapped after they sparked a massive backlash from the public. More than 7,500 Scots have complained in writing to the Scottish Executive about the plans for compulsory fluoridation, making it the biggest such protest since the Section 28 debate. Ministers and leading health […]
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Thousands say no to fluoride in Scotland’s water
Opposition to the adding of fluoride to Scotland’s water is overwhelming, it emerged yesterday. Thousands have raised objections to any move by the Scottish Executive to introduce what has been described as mass medication. The possible introduction of fluoride into the water supply resulted in an almost unprecedented response to an executive consultation exercise, with […]
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