Natural News | 13 April 2016 According to a report published by The Lancet in 2014 but that has only recently gained wider attention, fluoride is a neurotoxin in the same category as mercury, lead and arsenic. Fluoride’s status as a neurotoxin is not particularly new or controversial in the medical community, but this knowledge…
NZ Herald | 12 April 2016 [AM editor’s note: terrible news and another quantum leap for big government tyranny]. District Health Boards, rather than councils, will decide whether water supplies are fluoridated under proposals announced by the Government. The change would lead to more water supplies being fluoridated, as the benefits and safety of doing…
Scoop | 8 April 2016 No consultation needed for stopping or starting Fluoridation, decides Auckland Council Chair of Auckland Council’s Policy and Strategy committee decided unilaterally yesterday that a petition from Fluoride Free New Zealand could be received but not debated on. This left councillors no option other than to vote to accept the petition…
Newstalk ZB | 12 March 2016 A group of dentists want the associate minister of health to make fluoride testing free because of concerns many people are over-dosing on the additive. Dentist group FIND raised their concerns with Peter Dunne in a meeting in Wellington late yesterday. The FIND dentists are concerned that the total…
NZ Herald | 28 Feb 2016 Auckland’s water provider has quietly reduced its target for fluoride levels in the region’s drinking water. But it denies the move was clandestine. Watercare has reduced its target fluoride levels from 0.85 parts per million to 0.7ppm. The Ministry of Health recommends fluoride content for drinking water in the…
Scoop | 15 Feb 2016 A shameful day it was, for those Whakatane District Councillors who voted to reverse the decision to stop fluoridation. The Council decision to support the District Health Board in starting a targeted dental health programme, based on the successful Scottish CHILDSMILE programme, was also reversed. Non-fluoridated Scotland has cut the…
Radio NZ | 1 Feb 2016 Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne said fluoridation is the most effective way to limit tooth decay, particularly in young people. Whakatane district council is the latest local body to adopt a no-fluoridation policy, with councillors voting six to five to scrap fluoride, despite majority support for adding it to…
Scoop | 29 Jan 2016 Whakatane Stops Water Fluoridation: Money to Be Spent on Oral Health Care Programme After 44 years of water fluoridation, Whakatane District Council has voted to end the out-dated practice. Instead, they will consider providing funds to the District Health Board for targeted oral health programmes, like CHILDSMILE, which has been…
Washington’s Blog | 2 Jan 2016 One of our pet peeves is when erroneous groupthink persists even in the face of contradictory evidence. As shown below, water fluoridation is based on very shaky science. And yet – despite the science – the big dental associations in the U.S. and other countries continue to push it…
The Guardian | 25 Dec 2015 Critics call for end to scheme designed to prevent tooth decay in children, saying its effectiveness remains unproved Water fluoridation has been in place in England for more than 40 years, and now covers about 6 million people. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls adding fluoride…