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No plans to examine fluoride in public water despite promise
The Government have no plans for an international group of consultants to examine the use of fluoride in public water schemes, despite promises by a minister that this would be done. Junior health minister Alex White has said that there are no plans for such a consortium to examine fluoride in water and a Government-commissioned […]
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Egan wants rid of fluoride in Dundalk
Local election candidate Stephen Egan says that with the new charges on water being introduced, it time for a debate on whether or not flouride [sic] should be added. “As the government is now making us pay for our national water we as customers should have the right to decide if we want to have […]
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Clonakilty becomes second ‘fluoride-free town’
Clonakilty in West Cork has become the second Irish town to declare itself “fluoride-free”. Seven local businesses — Fernhill House Hotel, The Lettercollum Kitchen Project, The Winery, Betty Brosnans, Coffee Mezzo, Jagged Edge and The Sticky Bun — have all installed reverse osmosis water filtration systems to assure their customers that all food and beverage […]
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We must question mass medication without ‘benefit’
Dear Editor, The recent rejection by the IMO AGM of a motion calling on the Department of Health to reverse its current policy of public water fluoridation (IMT, May 2, 2014) raises a critical question of medical ethics. The health risks of fluoridated water in Ireland have been highlighted by a growing band of campaigners […]
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Motion on fluoridation falls
IMO [Irish Medical Association] members have rejected a call for the Department of Health to support a media campaign to highlight the causes of dental decay – namely poor diet and inadequate dental hygiene – and stop the practice of adding fluoride to public drinking water. Proposer Dr Elizabeth Cullen (Kildare) stressed to members that […]
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Putting fluoride on tap ‘unethical without consent’
ANTI-fluoride protesters have held a day long demonstration outside the Irish Medicines Board to draw attention to “the continued mass medication of the Irish people” through water fluoridation. Aisling FitzGibbon, known as The Girl Against Fluoride, asked why “fluoride tablets in this country require a doctor’s prescription and yet the Irish Medicines Board has never […]
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Doctors urged to oppose fluoride in water
The Irish Medical Organisation is being urged to take a stand against the practice of adding fluoride to public drinking water. Elizabeth Cullen of the Irish Doctor’s Environmental Association, will make her “commonsense” proposal on ending water fluoridation at the IMO’s annual conference in Maynooth, Co Kildare, on Friday. Dr Cullen’s motion urges the IMO […]
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Risk factors not fluoride key to higher cancer rates
Dear Editor, A report published on March 26 by Public Health England has concluded that there is no evidence of higher cancer rates in areas with fluoridated tap water, compared to those without fluoridation. The report also concludes that incidence rates for bladder and bone cancer are the same in fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas. These […]
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FG councillors question water fluoridation policy
Two Fine Gael county councillors have questioned the policy of adding fluoride to drinking water. Responding to a recent article published in Hot Press Magazine, Cllr Peggy Nolan has claimed that the issue is “being compounded by the recent revelations from former Minister of the Environment, John Gormley, and from Green Party members”. In the […]
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Without our consent, our bodies are being flooded with a toxin
Fluoride is a significant contributor to a wide range of chronic inflammatory diseases, metabolic disorders and neurological diseases. But I will just address fluoridation and cancer. In 2001, researchers at the University of Tokyo published findings in the Journal of Epidemiology which reported a significant association between water fluoridation and cancer. Researchers undertook detailed statistical […]
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