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McConnell says no to fluoride bid
FIRST Minister Jack McConnell has ruled out adding fluoride to Scotland’s drinking water. He told MSPs that the Executive planned to bring forward a range of other measures to improve the dental health of children. Senior Labour ministers had been eager to press ahead with fluoridation. But the decision to drop any such plans represents […]
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City may go it alone and put fluoride in tap water
GLASGOW health chiefs could still “go it alone” and introduce fluoride to drinking water. As reported in later editions of last night’s Evening Times, First Minister Jack McConnell has ruled out adding fluoride to mains water supplies across Scotland. But bosses at NHS Greater Glasgow are still determined to add the chemical to improve the […]
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BBC. Scotland: Fluoride plan goes down the drain
The first minister has pulled the plug on plans to add fluoride to drinking water in Scotland. Jack McConnell told parliament the Scottish Executive was instead planning a range of other measures to improve the dental health of children. Some dentists and the World Health Organisation have backed fluoridisation while other experts have said more […]
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No fluoride in our water
FIRST Minister Jack McConnell today ruled out adding fluoride to Scotland’s drinking water. He said the Executive was instead planning to bring forward a range of other measures to improve the dental health of children. The news will delight campaigners who have fought for years to stop the controversial move. And it will come as […]
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Fury over grants to pro-fluoride lobby
THE Scottish Executive has paid almost £70,000 of taxpayers’ money to a pro-fluoride lobby group, while claiming it was neutral on the issue. Furious Green MSP Patrick Harvie has accused the Executive of bias for continuing to give grants, already totalling £68,500, to the British Fluoridation Society. The BFS is a group of doctors and […]
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Executive pulls plug on fluoride in water
CONTROVERSIAL plans to introduce fluoride into the public water supply in Scotland are set to be abandoned, it emerged today. The Scottish Executive is understood to have axed the proposal – which won support from the medical profession- in favour of better targeted dental services. The move is thought to have been sparked by splits […]
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Liberal Democrats pour cold water on fluoride bid
LIBERAL Democrats are set to block Labour plans to add fluoride to Scotland’s water. And a compromise proposal – holding local referendums on the issue – is also likely to be thrown out. Scotland has an appalling record of dental health, with 55 per cent of children having dental disease by the age of five. […]
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Look what fluoride did to my girl’s teeth…
CARENA Smith’s teeth will never recover. Mottled brown and warped, they were ruined by the chemical hailed as a cure-all for tooth decay. Carena, now 19, took fluoride tablets as a child to make her teeth strong. Instead, the chemical – which Glasgow NHS bosses want to add to public water supplies – poisoned the […]
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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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