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• Fluoride research sparkes debate

  RESEARCHERS in York have reignited a fiery debate by accusing the Government of using selective evidence to promote the use of fluoride in the water supply. The long-running saga has divided the nation, with opinion split over whether we should be subjected to a form of “mass-medication”. In 1999, the Department of Health commissioned a […]

• Dentist backs fluoride bid

  A Preston dentist has backed calls for fluoride to be added to drinking water to tackle the poor state of children’s teeth. The Evening Post recently revealed how health chiefs are lobbying to reduce the high levels of tooth decay affecting youngsters in the city by introducing fluoride into tap water. Austin Hughes, who has […]

• Cape Fear: “Stop Fluoride” group holds kick-off meeting

  It started small, but a group of activists on Thursday began an effort to convince the public and, eventually, the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority to stop putting fluoride in drinking water. While fluoride has been inserted into drinking water for decades, it has always courted controversy and concerns that people are being medicated with […]

• Mount Airy: State review keeping fluoride out of city water

  Fluoride is being left out of Mount Airy’s water supply pending the end of a state moratorium triggered by elevated amounts of that chemical being found in city water last month. The use of fluoride was temporarily halted on May 6, when the problem was discovered, and won’t be resumed until later, a city official […]

• Fluoride in water a health risk to babies, say Greens

  FLUORIDATED water could pose a significant health risk to babies, campaigners warn today as the debate about the future of the nation’s drinking water intensifies. Organisations opposed to the compulsory fluoridation of drinking water believe more should be done to prevent children eating too much sugar instead of forcing medication on an unwilling nation. And […]

• Morganton will reduce fluoride levels in water

  Morganton, NC — City residents probably won’t notice the change, but their water soon will contain 30 percent less fluoride. Jason Green, superintendent of the Morganton water plant, says the city will drop the chemical’s level from 1 milligram of fluoride per liter of water to 0.7 milligrams, because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released […]

• Port Angeles: Anti-fluoride groups want state Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling

  Two anti-fluoride groups are asking the state Supreme Court to review its September ruling that upheld the city of Port Angeles’ argument in a four-year-long dispute over water fluoridation. The motion, filed last week, claims that the high court did not properly interpret the law when it concluded in a 5-4 vote Sept. 23 that […]

• Anti-fluoride activist sees ‘religious crusade’

  Health officials backing fluoridation have squared off against a visiting professor who compared their message to “a religious crusade”. More than 60 people gathered at the Hastings District Council chambers yesterday for a workshop in response to a petition received by the council last month in which 250 people requested that the council reconsider its […]

• Hastings: Campaigner weighs into fluoride feud

  A debate over fluoride was heard at Hastings District Council yesterday with Mayor Lawrence Yule indicating councillors may reconsider holding a public referendum. Anti-fluoride activists and Hawke’s Bay District Health Board representatives presented both sides of the debate on adding fluoride to the district’s water supply. The water supply in Hastings currently has fluoride added. […]

• Dunedin: Campaigner against fluoride to speak

  A United States campaigner against fluoride, Emeritus Prof Paul Connett, will outline the “case against fluoride” at a public meeting in Dunedin tomorrow. Prof Connett, of St Lawrence University, New York, will speak at the Otago Pioneer Women’s Memorial Hall, at 262 Moray Pl, at 2pm. An environmental chemist and director of the International Fluoride […]