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Editorial comment on fluoridation
The issue of fluoride in the drinking water has globally raised extensive debates on the pros and cons. Now the good folk of Methven look like being dragged back into the fray by anti-fluoride campaigners wanting to turn back the clock. They have every right to have their say and the community’s residents and its […]
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FOR: Best way to ensure better teeth (1st of 12 articles in series)
The fluoridation issue is not complicated, Dr Dorothy Boyd says It is simply an opportunity for as many people as possible to have better teeth. Our teeth are the front line of a constant war, explains the specialist dentist who is the senior public health dentist with Publikc Health South. Acids in our mouth break […]
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AGAINST: Negative health effects (2nd of 12 articles in series)
FLUORIDE in water can cause lower intelligence and chronic fatigue – so why would you want to put it in your body? Asks Dr Bruce Spittle Dr Spittle is Dunedin’s and probably New Zealand’s, leading anti-fluoride campaigner. A psychiatrist and lecturer by profession, Dr Spittle became an opponent of fluoridation after hearing Dr John Colquhoun […]
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Concerns raised at Waitati meeting (3rd of 12 articles in series)
AS work begins on the Northern Water Scheme, which will pump fluoridated water from Dunedin’s Mount Grand water treatment station to Waitati, Warrington and Seacliff, there are rumblings of discontent from residents of the seaside communities. None of the townships presently have fluoride in their water. At a public meeting in Waitati on Monday night, […]
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Otago District Health Board active promotor (4th of 12 articles in series)
OTAGO District Health Board is an active player in the fluoridation debate in the region. During last year’s local authority elections, alongside a Vote Fluoride publicity campaign, the board sponsored a fluoridation referendum in areas of Otago and Southland where the water supply was not fluoridated. Non-fluoridated areas of Dunedin were not included because the […]
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Most councillors would vote “yes” to fluoride (5th of 12 articles in series)
IF Dunedin city councillors were asked to vote today on whether to retain fluoridation of the water supply across the city, the results would be a firm “yes”. In the light of the fluoridation debate sparked by Waitati residents, The Star asked councillors if they would vote “yes” or “no” to fluoridation? Only two councillors, […]
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Fluoride used in NZ a byproduct of the fertilizer industry (6th of 12 articles in series)
FLUORIDE for use in New Zealand’s water supply is a byproduct of the fertiliser industry, the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (NZIC) says. In a report prepared by the NZIC and available on its website, the extraction and production of the fluroide is explained. An abridged version is presented below. Water fluoridation is an important […]
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Upgrade motive queried (7th of 12 articles in series)
DUNEDIN City Council rejects anti-fluoridation activist Olive McRae’s suggestions fluoridation equipment upgrade at Mt Grand water treatment station is being done secretively to avoid opposition. This year, more than $50,000 will be spent replacing the treatment station’s aged fluoridation dosing equipment. Ms McRae, who is the Dunedin representative for the New Zealand Fluoride Action Network, […]
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History of fluoridation (8th of 12 articles in series)
THE history of fluoridation is a tale of discovery, experimentation and controversy. • 1805 – Experiments by Italian chemist Domenico Morichini and Frenchman Joseph Gay Lussac lead to the conclusion that in certain cases calcium fluoride seems to able to substitute for calcium phosphate in bones and teeth. * 1840 – Under the influence of […]
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Outram mum uses fluoridated toothpaste (9th of 12 articles in series)
OUTRAM mother of two Jolene Casey admits to “sitting on the fence” when it comes to the fluoride debate. Mrs Casey lives in a non-fluoridated water area, but having lived in Outram all her life she knows no different. After reading the pros and cons of the fluoride debate (page 9), she still did not […]
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