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Concerns over high levels of fluoride
Ravensbourne residents hope a new $2.5 million “hygiene scrubber” at the Ravensdown Fertiliser works will make their vegetables safe to eat. Emissions from the works mean vegetables in Ravensbourne gardens have recorded fluoride levels many times the recommended limit. Works manager Craig Hendry said yesterday the plant would shut down on Sunday for a month […]
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Greens say no to fluoridation
Fluoridating Christchurch’s water supply would be unethical, and a form of mass medication, the Green Party says. The Greens health spokeswoman, Sue Kedgley, said yesterday a worldwide trend existed away from fluoride in water, and the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) was pursuing the “wrong demon” if they thought fluoridating Christchurch’s water was the way […]
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Christchurch targeted
The fluoride debate looks set to rage in Christchurch with the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) announcing it wants fluoride in the city’s water supply. The CDHB is formulating a policy which will support fluoridation. CDHB chief executive Jean O’Callaghan said Canterbury tooth decay rates were high compared to other parts of New Zealand and […]
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Maybe it has something to do with what is in the water
In a strange act of synchronicity, on the day New Zealand was announcing that our children have some of the worst teeth in the Western world the United States Environmental Protection Agency hosted a science forum on fluoridation. It was intended to confirm the effectiveness of fluoridation. But on the day, despite an overflowing house […]
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Fluoride in Hamilton’s Water in Question
Hamilton City Council will debate the fluoridation of water following a meeting between pro- and anti-fluoridation groups yesterday. Fluoride Action Network representatives Siggy Henry, Val Sandford and Christine Cave said at a briefing for councillors that hydrofluosilic acid, a fertiliser byproduct put into the water, is a waste product and should not be used. The […]
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Decaying dental care a concern
Catherine was off her food for weeks before finally admitting to a pain in her mouth. When she opened wide, the culprit seemed obvious: an adult molar blocked by an undislodged baby tooth was pushing sideways through the 10-year-old’s gum. But when her mother phoned the dental clinic at her central Auckland school to arrange […]
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Wairoa backs off fluoridation
Plans to fluoridate Wairoa’s water supply have been canned, amid jubilation from anti-fluoridation campaigners and bitter disappointment from health workers. The Wairoa District Council has voted 5-4 to rescind a decision made last October, in which the council voted equally narrowly to introduce fluoridation. Wairoa resident Sylvia Cole, whose anti-fluoridation petition had gathered more than […]
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Fluoridation: medication via the water supply
To have better behaved citizens we could legislate putting Valium in the town water supply, or aspirin and cholesterol drugs to reduce heart attacks, and hormones to regulate birth control. Not a silly idea? Of course it is! It violates Nuremberg laws as well as basic individual freedom to choose. So why is it that […]
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Fluoridation `bribe’ faces Timaru veto
The Timaru District Council will receive half the setting up cost of fluoridating its water supply under a new Government public health measure. But while the Ministry of Health wants all local bodies to fluoridate their water, Timaru mayor Wynne Raymond has signalled such a move is unlikely here because of the strength of public […]
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Thumbs down for fluoride in Whangarei, New Zealand
Whangarei voters have given fluoridation the thumbs down in a council opinion poll. Only 38% of residents voted on the Ministry of Health proposal to put fluoride in drinking water in a bid to reduce serious dental decay in children. More than 11,000 voters opposed the move while more than 6,000 were in favour. Whangarei […]
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