Posts Tagged ‘anti-fluoride campaigners’
Judge backs Southampton fluoridation scheme
Plans to add fluoride to the water supply in Southampton have been backed by a High Court Judge, despite public anger. Mr Justice Holman has rejected a challenge to the planned fluoridation scheme and refused to carry out a judicial review of the decision making process. Southampton grandmother Geraldine Milner had taken the case to […]
Calgary council vote against fluoridation
Calgary’s water supplies could be fluoride free after the council voted in favour of stopping water fluoridation. Alderman voted 10 to 3 to stop fluoridation on Tuesday. Fluoridation has become a subject of great debate in the area and several meetings have become heated; initially, the plan was to have a public vote on the […]
Cheshire fluoride controversy
Should fluoride be introduced to the water supply in Cheshire? That is the question bedeviling public health bosses in the County. Crewe, erroneously identified as falling under the ambit of the West Cheshire health authority, is the only town in the county to have fluoridated water which is currently supplied to 4,700 of its inhabitants. […]
Adjustment to fluoride in water not a rebuke
While the recent lowering of fluoride in water supplies may have been seen as an admittance of the dangers of such an act, it would seem this is in fact not the case. Instead, it is now claimed that the lowering of fluoride in water is merely a response to the fact that many manufacturers […]
Plans for water fluoridation revealed in Bellingen Shire
Fluoride will be added to the water supply in Bellingen Shire, New South Wales, from today, it has been announced. Local residents have received a letter this week to inform them of the plans to start water fluoridation in the area; the letter contains information about the fluoride programme and a booklet outlining the reasons […]
Fluoride debate rages on
In light of the recent news that residents in a Canadian town have voted in favour of stopping the fluoridation of water supplies, the debate surrounding fluoridation has become increasingly fervent. For many years dental organisations, such as The British Dental Health Foundation, have promoted fluoride as a means of reducing decay; according to the […]
Canadians vote against fluoridated water supplies
Residents in Waterloo, Ontario have voted to stop adding fluoride to water supplies. The decision, which was announced on Tuesday, has been welcomed by anti-fluoride campaigners; however, the news has shocked dentists and the incoming head of the Ontario Dental Association has condemned the decision. Dr Harry Hoediono has criticised the decision, saying that people […]
