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Fluoridation of our water is “dangerous unscientific nonsense”
The Green Party have slated controversial plans to fluoridate water supplies, claiming that there are many significant questions over fluoride‘s safety and effectiveness. Following government bidding, health chiefs around the country are currently deciding whether to adopt fluoridation as their preferred route to reducing tooth decay in children – a move described as “dangerously unscientific […]
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BBC: Government ‘pushes fluoridation’
The government has written to health chiefs reminding them they have the power to order water companies to add fluoride to water supplies. The move is being seen as a concerted effort to push for more fluoridation of drinking water. Supporters, including the British Dental Association, say fluoridation help to cut tooth decay significantly. But […]
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Government ‘pushes fluoridation’
The government has written to health chiefs reminding them they have the power to order water companies to add fluoride to water supplies. The move is being seen as a concerted effort to push for more fluoridation of drinking water. Supporters, including the British Dental Association, say fluoridation help to cut tooth decay significantly. But […]
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Poorest areas will be targets of fluoridation
The Government’s attempt to extend water fluoridation across England is likely to focus on the most deprived 20 per cent of the population, which experiences 80 per cent of the nation’s dental disease. Dentists say that in countries where water fluoridation is widespread, such as America, Australia and New Zealand, dental health is far superior […]
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Firm fined after acid river leak
A chemical plant has been ordered to pay £16,000 in fines and costs after acid leaked into a river. The court heard vegetation turned black and fish died in the leak at Kingsweston Rhine and a pond near the Rhodia Organique plant in Avonmouth. The firm pleading guilty to causing poisonous or polluting matter to […]
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Fluoride in Milk Plan is “Knee Jerk Reaction”
SCHOOL milk with added fluoride is to be introduced for the first time in Doncaster – under a controversial project to halt tooth decay in children. Parents of pupils at Belle Vue’s St Peter’s Roman Catholic Primary School are expected to be able to sign up for their youngsters to be given daily fluoridated milk […]
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Statement on Fluoridation from Dr. Ian Robb
In 2003 the Government passed the Water Act to allow water authorities to add fluoride to the public drinking water – fluoridation – if there is a request from statutory health agencies after they have consulted on the issue. In this article I explain why, as a doctor, I advise against fluoridation. Autonomy is the […]
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Fluoride – Clear proof of harm?
A BOMBSHELL report may have finally put paid to Government plans to re -introduce fluoride into tap water in Northern Ireland. And it could also have major ramifications for the Republic, which along with Britain, are the only two countries in the EU where water is fluoridated. According to new American research, boys between the […]
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Fluoride water ’causes cancer’
Fluoride in tap water can cause bone cancer in boys, a disturbing new study indicates, although there is no evidence of a link for girls. New American research suggests that boys exposed to fluoride between the ages of five and 10 will suffer an increased rate of osteosarcoma – bone cancer – bet-ween the ages […]
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Toxic chemical is being added to drinking water
A HIGHLY toxic chemical – so strong that it can eat through road surfaces and solid steel – is being used to add fluoride to our drinking water. Hexafluorosilicic acid is the concentrated form of the chemical which the North Cumbria Health Authority insists should be added in low concentrations. Objectors to the policy, including […]
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