Scoop | 16 Dec 2015 The US Government’s National Toxicology Program (NTP) is set to conduct new studies looking at fluoride’s adverse effects on the developing brain. The NTP is expected to ratify these studies within the coming months. Results could mean the end to fluoridation world-wide, and definitely should put a halt to any…
Scoop | 6 Nov 2015 Auckland Council Rejects Fluoridation for Onehunga in Landslide Auckland Councillors yesterday overwhelmingly voted to reject a proposal to add hazardous fluoride chemicals to the drinking water of Onehunga residents, voting 18 to 3 against the motion. The vote is in keeping with councils around the country not wanting to take…
PR Newswire | 22 Oct 2015 A recently uncovered document reveals that New York City infants are fluoride overdosed and risk fluoride-damaged teeth, especially when infant formula is mixed with NYC’s fluoride-laced public water supplies, reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF). To avoid moderate dental fluorosis (fluoride-damaged teeth) the Institute of…
PR Newswire | 30 Sept 2015 Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has delivered a 100-page report to the Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group entitled “Water Fluoridation and Environmental Justice” outlining the dangers posed by this practice to poor families and communities of color. Since 1962 officials at the U.S. Public Health Service have known that Blacks…
Scoop | 29 Sept 2015 John Pfahlert, Water New Zealand’s CEO, has made repeated calls to roll out nationwide mandatory fluoridation, over-riding communities that have already rejected the outdated practice, or have remained happily free from fluoridation. Water New Zealand is an industry lobby group, formed from the now dissolved New Zealand Sewage and Industrial…
Stuff | 11 Sept 2015 An increasingly slick anti-fluoridation lobby is causing concern for some Hutt Valley District Health Board members. A paper presented to the board’s last meeting addressed an email from Fluoride Free New Zealand which included claims that fluoridation permanently damaged the teeth of “tens of thousands of Kiwis”. The paper said…
Scoop | 12 Aug 2015 The reported findings of the DHB survey on public attitudes to fluoridation released this week come as no surprise to a group of dentists who have been independently studying fluoridation science, FIND (Fluoride Information Network for Dentists). The survey of 3,500 adult New Zealanders reportedly found that only 42 percent…
Newsweek | 29 June 2015 If you’re like two-thirds of Americans, fluoride is added to your tap water for the purpose of reducing cavities. But the scientific rationale for putting it there may be outdated, and no longer as clear-cut as was once thought. Water fluoridation, which first began in 1945 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and…
Scoop | 17 June 2015 A new review just released by the Cochrane Collaboration, internationally acknowledged as the gold standard in evidenced based reviews of health science, confirms doubts over the benefits of fluoridating water supplies in modern developed countries like New Zealand. The Cochrane Review finds the science does not support claims that water…
NZ Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice | 29 May 2015 When fluoride was added to the water supplies of two Taranaki towns not everyone was happy. The District Council had relied on powers in the Local Government Act 2002 and the Public Health Act 1956. But the plaintiff – an advocacy group –…