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  • Infant Formula Controversy Erupts

    PARENTS who prepare their babies’ bottles with tap water are not putting their health at risk, according to a controversial report which Health Minister Michel Martin is due to receive today. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) report, which took more than a year to complete, contradicts the findings of the British Medical Association […]

  • Earth Summit Ireland Addresses Fluoridation

    EXCERPT: Ireland is one of the only developed countries in the world that still adds fluoride, a poison, to its public water supplies. Over 70% of people in Ireland drink fluoride through the water supply. Many of Ireland’s fellow European states stopped fluoridation of public water supplies in the 1970s, in response to concerns about […]

  • Government to release long delayed fluoride report

    The government is to release the report of the Fluoridation Forum before the end of September. The Department of Health has been under increasing pressure from the EU and opposition parties to release the report, which was completed over a year ago. Fine Gael MEP Avril Doyle said the delay “shows an irresponsible lack of […]

  • Court paves way for fluoridated water

    On the High Court’s recommendation, the Union of Local Authorities yesterday withdrew a petition protesting the addition of fluoride to drinking water. A three-judge panel informed the ULA that it lacks the wherewithal to resolve the technical dispute between the ULA and the Health Ministry regarding fluoride’s impact on human health. In its original petition, […]

  • The War Against Cavities Might Cause Other Diseases

    The Mekorot Water Company is currently preparing to implement the Ministry of Health decision to add fluoride to [all] drinking water in Israel. At present only half of the population are being supplied with water enriched with fluoride. Thus, a large number of new installations are expected to be in operation no later than December […]

  • Closing the tap against fluoride

    Adding fluoride has been [intended as a measure] to improve the health of the teeth but opposition has been arising due to a fear that fluoride is likely to damage the teeth and even to cause cancer. Now the committee is recommending that fluoridation be stopped until the matter has been appropriately researched. In the […]

  • Cancer, Alzheimers, Down’s Syndrome and Mouth Ulcers – Warning: Fluoride is Harmful to Health

    Next time you go to a doctor and complain of stomachaches and he mumbles something about a virus that will pass in a day or two, it’s worth asking his opinion on fluoride in drinking water. According to scientific publications in Europe and the United States, it appears that fluoride can cause – in addition […]

  • Kenya: Hundreds Jobless As Fluorspar Firm Shuts Down

    A multi-billion shilling mining company has been forced to suspend production and lay off hundreds of employees. Kenya Fluorspar Company, with assets valued at over Sh5 billion, becomes the second company after Webuye- based Pan African Paper Mills to halt operations due to a financial crisis. Company managing director, Nico Spangenberg, attributed the closure to […]

  • Raising Environmental Awareness

    WORLD Environment Day is commemorated each year on June 5 as one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. The commemoration tomorrow is to deepen public participation on the need to preserve and enhance the environment. It is also about promoting […]

  • FAN NZ responds to fluoridation push

    Fluoride Action Network (FAN) NZ, would like to thank Auckland DHB chair Wayne Brown for bringing the contentious subject of water-fluoridation into the public arena (NZ Herald, 1/06/04). Although disappointed that his initial public stance is in support of the practice, they are not surprised. “He will not have been properly informed on the topic. […]