Focus On Fluoridation Wrong: Kids Suffering

Scoop | 25 Jan 2015 PRESS RELEASE FROM FIND. 22nd January 2015 Focus On Fluoridation Wrong: Kids Suffering Around one in 15 kids under the age of 14 are having teeth extracted, according to recently released health department figures. “This is unacceptable in a country like New Zealand, and is largely preventable” says Wellington dentist,…

Academics question pro-fluoride IQ study

Eileen Goodwin | Otago Daily Times | 21 Dec 2014 A Dunedin study that cleared fluoride of adversely affecting IQ has been sharply criticised in an academic letter published in the New Zealand Medical Journal. The letter, by University of Auckland academic psychiatrist Associate Prof David Menkes and two others, says the study failed to…

Judge Advises Circumventing Law on Fluoride

Scoop | 19 Dec 2014 Friday, 19 December 2014, 1:23 pm Press Release: Fluoride Free New Zealand Media Release Fluoride Free New Zealand www.fluoridefree.org.nz 17th December 2014 Judge Advises Circumventing Law on Fluoride Justice David Collins has taken it upon himself to advise the NZ Ministry of Health’s legal team on how best to circumvent…

New code for water fluoridation

Paloma Migone | Radio NZ | 19 Dec 2014 A new code of practice for the use of fluoride in drinking water supplies has been released by Water New Zealand. The code was partially funded by the Ministry of Health, and includes measures such as having independent checks of water fluoridation plants and an automatic…