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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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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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