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Look what fluoride did to my girl’s teeth…
CARENA Smith’s teeth will never recover. Mottled brown and warped, they were ruined by the chemical hailed as a cure-all for tooth decay. Carena, now 19, took fluoride tablets as a child to make her teeth strong. Instead, the chemical – which Glasgow NHS bosses want to add to public water supplies – poisoned the […]
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Fury over new bid to have fluoride on tap
HEALTH bosses in Glasgow have been warned they face fierce opposition as they launch a new push to get fluoride put into the city’s water. NHS Greater Glasgow wants the Scottish Executive to introduce fluoridation as quickly as possible – against the advice of one of the city’s top dentists. Robert Broadfoot, dental director of […]
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We’ll Fight Fluoride Tooth and Nail, Warns Council
LIVERPOOL City Council is locked on a collision course with the regional health authority over fluoride in water supplies. The council is set to pass a motion condemning the fluoride used in water supplies as being a pesticide. It is also expected to relaunch the school dental service in secondary schools as a better way […]
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Public to make fluoride decision
Local residents, employees and businesses will all have a say as to whether fluoride should be added to their local water supply under proposed regulations. Views should also be sought from voluntary public health organisations as well as statutory health and local authorities, the government has suggested in draft regulations from the Department of Health. […]
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Fluoridation of Water to Be Decided Locally
Draft regulations setting out how Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) should consult local people on the decision to fluoridate water supplies were published today by Public Health Minister, Melanie Johnson. The draft regulations require SHAs to publish proposals to fluoridate in the local media, and consult on the decision for three months. SHAs would only then […]
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Fluoride alert for children
TAP water could be lowering children’s intelligence, leading experts have warned. Top doctors claim fluqride in drinking water can interfere with a child’s brain function. They believe this can lower IQ levels and lead to behavioural problems. Last night Dr Vyvian Howard, an expert in chemicals and infant health at Liverpool University, told of his […]
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Don’t toy with fluoride
OUR Government has the best of motives in wanting to extend the fluoridisation of our water supply. But it is embarking on a risky experiment which, as we report today, some believe could lower children’s intelligence, lead to behavioural problems and cause health problems in adults. Our modern sugary diet is not only making our […]
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Scotland to face yet another fluoridation push
FLUORIDE will be added to large parts of Scotland’s water supply as part of a controversial compromise plan by the Scottish executive to mass medicate children. Labour ministers, who have faced widespread opposition to blanket fluoridation, will instead give health boards the power to order Scottish Water to add the chemical to supplies following public […]
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A kick in the teeth
A 50-year-old medical controversy is about to be re-ignited. The government is considering the introduction of further fluoridation schemes throughout the country. To facilitate that, the Water Act passed last November indemnified water companies from civil or criminal actions as a result of adding fluoride to public water supplies. Fluoridation was first advanced in the […]
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Campaigners launch scathing attack on MP’s Fluoridation ‘Reward’
Campaigners from Greater Manchester have reacted angrily to the news that Andy Burnham MP for Leigh has accepted an invitation to become a Vice-President of the British Fluoridation Society. The MP has led the campaign in the House of Commons to push through legislation which gives new powers to strategic health authorities to instruct water […]
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