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Connett Tour to Inject Momentum to Fluoride Free Campaign
Dr Paul Connett’s upcoming tour of New Zealand towns and cities is set to inject further momentum into the groundswell of opposition to adding fluoride chemicals into the public drinking water. Dr Connett is a world leading expert in fluoridation, the coauthor of a book The Case Against Fluoride and Executive Director of Fluoride Action […]
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TABLELANDS Regional Council is looking to sell fluoridation equipment
TABLELANDS Regional Council is looking to sell fluoridation equipment worth thousands of dollars that was installed at its Kuranda and Malanda water treatment plants but never used. Council was obliged to install the equipment under the then-Labor government’s Water Fluoridation Act, despite community outrage over the prospect of fluoridated drinking supplies. Council delayed commissioning the […]
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Fluoride debate fuelled in Waikato
As Hamilton prepares to finally put the highly controversial issue of water fluoridation before a tribunal, a Waikato District Health Board member has spoken out against mass medication through the region’s water supplies. Andrew Buckley went against the board’s medical officer of health, Dr Felicity Dumble, when he said: “There is overwhelming evidence to support […]
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Windsor: Fluoride fireworks forecast for special council meeting
Recently grabbing a tube of toothpaste for his young kids off a store shelf, Mayor Eddie Francis said the product label read: “Fluoride-free — safe to swallow.” For the past six decades, Windsor has been adding fluoride to the municipal water supply in order for people to gulp it down with each drink poured from […]
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Toowoomba: Councillor weighs into fluoride debate
TOOWOOMBA Regional Councillor John Gouldson is unlikely to support moves to dismantle the region’s existing water fluoridation system. Cr Gouldson has reserved his judgment until he is presented with all the data at tomorrow’s council meeting, but said his gut feeling was that he would “vote for the status quo to remain”. The pivotal verdict […]
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‘Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland’ political group forms to support fluoride
A new political group formed this month to support putting fluoride in Portland’s drinking water, and there’s a familiar face running the campaign. “Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland” filed paperwork with the state on Jan. 10 to support Measure 26-151, which will ask voters whether fluoride should be added to Portland’s water supply. The campaign manager? […]
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Stanthorpe: Heads above water
IT HAS the authority to turn off the fluoride tap but the Southern Downs Regional Council does not consider water fluoridation a significant issue. The council started adding fluoride to Stanthorpe’s water supply in May 2011 after the previous State Government mandated fluoride be added to water supplies serving 1000 people or more. But, the […]
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Corporate Gambit on New Jersey’s Drinking Water
Corporate sponsored legislation would shackle regulatory efforts to control chemicals in New Jersey’s drinking water, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Tomorrow, the state legislature will take up a bill to pack the Drinking Water Quality Institute (DWQI) with corporate members and specify precisely what type of scientific studies can be used for […]
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Press release from the ADA: Fluoridation news
This week marks the 68th anniversary of community water fluoridation. Grand Rapids, Mich., became the first city in the U.S. to adjust the fluoride levels in its water supply to lower tooth decay rates in children on Jan. 25, 1945. According to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fluoridated water […]
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Toowoomba: Councillor wants ‘no’ vote on fluoride
D-DAY for Toowoomba’s water fluoridation debate is just days away with councillors preparing to vote on Tuesday whether to retain the program. Cr Nancy Sommerfield is leading a campaign to switch off the current system and has urged fellow councillors to follow her. “This is about the fact that 98 per cent of the fluoridated […]
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