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Dunedin: Call for poll on city fluoridation
Dunedin city councillors have questioned whether a public referendum might be needed to decide the future of the city’s fluoridated water supply, after dozens of submissions calling for an end to the practice. Cr Paul Hudson, speaking at yesterday’s annual plan hearing, asked council staff to report back on the cost of holding a city-wide […]
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Maine better than New Zealand in kids’ untreated tooth decay
The Pew Charitable Trust may want to start studying how Maine manages tooth decay in children. Our level of untreated tooth decay for third graders was 14.6 percent in 2011 — the second lowest in the nation. Instead of looking at Maine, however, Pew is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in a number of […]
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Invercargill: Fluoridation and skate park plan at forefront of submissions to council
Water fluoridation and the proposed skate park redevelopment have dominated the hundreds of submissions to the Invercargill City Council draft annual plan. The council received 407 submissions on the plan and will hear from 64 of those submitters wanting to speak in support of their views this week. The council’s water fluoridation scheme was the […]
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Patea and Waverley: Fluoride fight in court
A health advocacy group is challenging the decision to fluoridate the Patea and Waverley water supplies in the High Court. New Health New Zealand has applied to the High Court at New Plymouth for a judicial review of South Taranaki District Council’s decision to fluoridate the two towns’ water. The council will defend the challenge, […]
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Taranaki fluoride ruling ends up in court
An imminent legal battle over fluoridating water supplies in Patea and Waverley could open a can of worms for councils across the country. Christchurch-based New Health New Zealand director David Sloan said the group was seeking a judicial review because they believed the South Taranaki District Council did not have the authority to fluoridate. Late […]
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Latest statistics boost anti-fluoride case
The case to keep fluoride out of Tauranga’s water supplies has been strengthened by the Bay of Plenty District Health Board’s latest statistics on tooth decay in children, a leading city anti-fluoride campaigner says. Ken Evans has obtained information from the board that compared 5-year-olds from fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities. It showed children living in […]
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Auckland protesters voice fluoride concerns
A group of protesters have gathered outside Auckland’s Town Hall to speak out against adding fluoride to the city’s water. Around 40 people picketed against fluoridation, claiming links to numerous mental health issues, cancers and bone diseases. They say the number of countries that add fluoride to water makes up only 5% of the world, […]
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Tauranga: No fluoride for city
Tauranga City Council has no plans to revisit the contentious issue of fluoridating the city’s water supply. Fluoride was taken out of Tauranga’s water supply in 1992 after a referendum where more than half of the city’s residents voted against the chemical that is back in the news elsewhere in New Zealand. Council acting communications […]
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South Taranaki: Court battle for council could reopen nation’s vexed fluoride-in-water debate
Is adding fluoride to water a cheap way to help prevent tooth decay, or a breach of our personal rights? The mood is sombre around the horseshoe-shaped table at the centre of the South Taranaki District council chambers. Their decision-making is under scrutiny by concerned locals just a couple of metres away in the public […]
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Kapiti: Fluoride labelled a poison
The health of Kapiti people is at risk, anti fluoridation campaigner Peter Daniel says. Mr. Daniel, a former councillor, who addressed a council meeting on Thursday, said the mental and physical well being of Kapiti people had been “seriously compromised”. After reading hundreds of peer reviewed scientific studies he had concluded “nothing in the human […]
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