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Bolton: anti-fluoride meeting February 26
AN anti-fluoride meeting is being held tomorrow night. The meeting, which has been organised by the National Pure Water Association, will feature speakers from the Green Party, Friends of the Earth and representatives from a thyroid patients and kidney patients advocacy groups. Health Secretary Alan Johnson has announced government plans to pump £42 million into […]
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Something in the water?
More fluoride should be put into Britain’s drinking water, according to health secretary Alan Johnson. Money has been earmarked for health boards wishing to do so. In some parts of the UK, fluoride occurs naturally in the water supply; in others, such as the Midlands, it is already added to water supplies. To Johnson, there […]
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‘Health chiefs should resign over fluoride’
CAMPAIGNERS are calling for health chiefs to quit over plans to add fluoride to Southampton’s tap water. Protesters who claim fluoridated water harms people’s health are stepping up their fight against the move. Southampton City Primary Care Trust (PCT) supports water fluoridation and is awaiting the results of investigations into its practicalities. As reported in […]
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British sink their teeth into debate over fluoride
LONDON — Anyone who’s seen an Austin Powers movie knows the stereotype about the English: They have bad teeth. Health Secretary Alan Johnson said it’s time to improve England’s dental health and urged putting fluoride in local drinking water to help reduce tooth decay in children, especially in poor areas. Only about 10% of England’s […]
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British Dental Association Supports Communities’ Right To Choose Fluoride
The British Dental Association welcomes Health Secretary Alan Johnson’s announcement this week that £42 million would be made available for local fluoridation schemes where communities support the initiative. Susie Sanderson, Chair of the BDA’s Executive Board, said: “Tooth decay is a significant problem in the UK. In socially deprived communities as many as one in […]
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Does flouride in toothpaste give kids bad teeth?
This week, Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, called for fluoride to be added to more areas of England’s water supply, to prevent dental decay. In passing, he acknowledged that, for all the benefits of fluoride, too much can lead to a permanent discolouring of the teeth, called dental fluorosis. But only, he said, when children […]
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Fluoride, teeth, and an argument that’s full of holes
You’ll find fluoride in tea, beer and fish, which might sound like a balanced diet to you. But this week Alan Johnson announced a new push for putting it in our drinking water, with some very grand promises – and in the face of serious opposition. General Jack D Ripper developed his theories about environmental […]
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Anger over water plans
ANTI-FLUORIDATION campaigners have hit out at government plans to flood the county’s water supplies with added fluoride. Cumbrians against Fluoridation has campaigned for the last eight years against what it claims is the use of an untested, unresearched chemical in the area’s drinking water. West Cumbria is one of around 30 areas to have fluoride […]
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Alan Johnson ‘misleading’ over fluoride benefits
Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, has been accused of overstating the benefits of adding fluoride to water in the fight against dental disease. Tooth decay in children across Europe has fallen irrespective of whether there is fluoride in the water, authors of a report have said. Mr Johnson has called for it to be added […]
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Doctors’ leaders step up Wales fluoride campaign
DOCTORS’ leaders in Wales yesterday stepped up a campaign for fluoride to be added to water supplies to combat tooth decay. It followed a call by Westminster health secretary Alan Johnson for fluoride to be added to more water supplies in England. Welsh secretary of the British Medical Association Dr Richard Lewis said the doctors’ […]
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