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  • Hampshire County rejects fluoride in water

    Plans to add fluoride to tap water in Southampton have been rejected by Hampshire councillors, just hours after city councillors backed the idea. Southampton City Council voted 26 to 18 in favour of the measure after a heated debate on Wednesday. On Thursday, Hampshire County Council decided unanimously that it did not support the proposals. […]

  • Greens Step Up Anti-Fluoridation Battle

    As ministers prepare to give the go-ahead to water fluoridation, the Green Party has signalled its intention to step up campaigning against it. The Greens argue that: * Fluoride is linked to a range of adverse health effects. * Mass medication is medically unethical and an infringement of individual liberty. * Education, not fluoridation, is […]

  • Greens Claim London Anti-Fluoridation Announcement a Victory for Whole Country

    The Green Party today claims a victory in Britain’s battle against Tony Blair’s plan for compulsory fluoridation, as London Mayor Ken Livingstone sides with the Greens to oppose the fluoridation of London’s drinking water. Mr Livingstone came off the fence publicly for the first time today in an answer during Mayor’s question time. The Green […]

  • Southampton’s fluoride ‘yes’ may open floodgates

    FLUORIDATING Southampton’s water could be opening the floodgates for similar schemes across Hampshire. Health chiefs elsewhere in the county have already admitted they are looking at asking for the controversial chemical to be added to supplies in their area. With anger still raging over South Central Strategic Health Authority’s decision to back fluoridation for 200,000 […]

  • Southampton: Fluoridation plan praised

    THE controversial decision to fluoridate Southampton’s water has finally received glowing praise – from a national association of dentists and doctors. South Central Strategic Health Authority’s (SHA) move to give the scheme the green light has been met with angry criticism from campaigners and many residents, who say local people’s wishes were ignored. Scores say […]

  • Southampton: Hit and myths of fluoride

    AS a member of the Faculty of Public Health and having been involved in public health practice and research for over 20 years, I was disappointed that our vice-president Dr Steve George should perpetuate a number of myths about the efficacy and effects of water fluoridation. The York Report did not “fail to find evidence […]

  • The York Review: Friend, Flawed or Fraud?

    I am going to focus here on the York Review and it’s analysis of the health effects of fluoridation. I will leave the discussion of dental decay and fluorosis to another section. As far as health effects are concerned, the York Review badly misrepresented both the scope and the substance of their review. THE YORK […]

  • Just How Safe is Fluoride?

    To most people, fluoride is a wholly beneficial chemical with no downside whatsoever. Its remarkably favourable public image is based on our trust of the dental profession which has been telling us since the 1950s that fluoride is good for our teeth and advising us to brush them with fluoride toothpaste and swallow fluoride tablets. […]

  • Southampton fluoridation challenge launched

    Leigh Day & Co has commenced a judicial review challenge on behalf of Ms Geraldine Milner, a life long resident of Southampton, against the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SCSHA) in relation to its recent decision to instruct Southern Water to fluoridate the local water supply in Southampton and parts of South West Hampshire. Ms […]

  • South East Euro-MP Challenges Health Secretary’s ‘Vested Interests’ In Southampton’s Water Fluoridation Scheme

    Green MEP for the South East Caroline Lucas has challenged the Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham over his position as vice president of the British Fluoridation Society – at a time when health authorities in Southampton were giving the green light to a “mass medication” water fluoridation scheme. The Health Secretary was instrumental […]