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Marlborough: Fluoride decision disappoints
The district health board’s principal dental officer said he was disappointed the Marlborough District Council chose not to discuss putting fluoride into the region’s water supply earlier this week. Dr Roby Beaglehole said the fluoride debate was a “personal issue” for some councillors and therefore the decision should be put into the hands of district […]
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PM backs fluoride as calls for referendum grow
Prime Minster John Key has described anti-fluoride arguments as “overstated”. Speaking to the media at the National Fieldays today, Key said he supported fluoridation of water supplies, but it was a matter for local councils to decide. “In my view, the evidence strongly supports that fluoride actually stops tooth decay, overall the health benefits of […]
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When Rotorua had fluoride
Rotorua’s water was once fluoridated – for just six months back in 1979. Last week the Rotorua Daily Post ran an article saying Rotorua had never had fluoride in its water. But since then a keen local historian and a Rotorua dentist have been in touch to put the record straight. Rotorua District Council utilities […]
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Hamilton: Fluoride removal helps city playground work
Removing fluoride from city water has proved a windfall for Hamilton City amenities and the youth council. Playground work gets an additional $33,000, partner pools an extra $20,000 and a further $5000 goes to the youth council. Staff will report back by September on further alternative non-debt funding for the partner pools and playground budgets. […]
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What is in the water?
In recent weeks we have seen a revival of the water fluoridation “debate”. Perhaps the question we need to ask is “what is the debate really about?” The science of fluoride in water is effectively settled. It has been one of the most thoroughly worked questions in public health science over some decades. There is […]
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Gisborne: No plans to take fluoride out of city’s water supply
GISBORNE District Council is maintaining its stance on water fluoridation in line with Government recommendations, as debate heats up following Hamilton City Council’s decision to remove it from the city water supply. Hamilton city councillors voted last week and fluoride is expected to be removed from the city water supply from the end of this […]
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Marlborough: Fluoride talks get tap turned off
Marlborough District councillor Graeme Taylor was “smacked” by Mayor Alistair Sowman for saying the council would discuss water fluoridation, Mr Taylor said yesterday. Mr Taylor, chairman of the council’s assets and services committee which oversaw water supply infrastructure, had committed to raising the issue of water fluoridation at yesterday’s committee meeting when asked by the […]
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Thames Coromandel District Council Letter to Ministry of Health About Fluoridation
Council has sent a letter to the Ministry of Health asking for an unequivocal assurance that fluoridation has no health effects on any of our population at any time. The fluoridation of Thames Water has been a contentious issue. In January this year a consultation process was held on whether fluoride should be retained in […]
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Marlborough: Council quizzed about fluoride
Marlborough district councillors are being asked to weigh in on the fluoride debate. Marlborough District Council assets and services committee chairman Graeme Taylor said he would raise the controversial topic after his committee meeting tomorrow afternoon. Fluoride in water made headlines last week after Hamilton District Council voted 7-1 to remove fluoride from its water […]
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‘At least one will die’ as a result of Hamilton’s fluoridation
My profession has had a number of embarrassments either due to over-enthusiastic endorsements of a new drug or uncritical acceptance of professorial dictates and as Max Planck so aptly put it: “Changes in science occur funeral by funeral” as we have to wait 50 years for both the professors and their students to die or […]
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