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FLUORIDATION.
Anti-fluoride bid failshttp://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/10599033/Anti-fluoride-bid-fails Fluoride opponents continue the fightDominion Post 3rd Oct 2014 Opponents of fluoride are trying to force the Ministry of Health to treat it as a medicine and regulate the amount added to tap water, the High Court at Wellington has been told. But even should they succeed, the ministry plans to exempt immediately fluoride added to public water supplies from the Medicines Act. Lisa Hansen, for anti-fluoride group New Health New Zealand, told the court yesterday it was absurd that fluoride tablets were deemed a medicine under the act but fluoride added to tap water was not. read full article or download PDF paper clipping from Dominion Post here
Fluoride Litigation – New Health NZ Inc v South Taranaki District Council (High Court)click the links below for the PDF's
download Media Statement 26th March 2014 PDF Fight to remove fluoride taken to Court of Appeal-NZ HeraldA group fighting the fluoridation of New Zealand water supplies is taking its battle to the Court of Appeal. Media statement on behalf of David Sloan, Chairman of New Health New Zealand Inc. New Health has read the decision and respectfully disagrees with the judge’s interpretation of the Local Government Act, Health Act and NZ Bill of Rights Act. In particular it disagrees with the judge’s view that fluoridation is not medical treatment for the purposes of s 11 of the Bill of Rights. It will appeal the decision. There is a persuasive and respectable body of scientific and medical evidence that water fluoridation is of doubtful benefit and there are risks of harm. In today’s consumer-enlightened era, people should have the choice whether or not to ingest something that has a claimed therapeutic purpose. No other public health measure removes a person’s choice in the same way as fluoridation. Comparing water fluoridation with water chlorination and iodised salt is simply wrong. Iodine is an essential nutrient but fluoride is not. Further people have a choice whether to buy iodised or non-iodised salt. Water chlorination treats the water by eliminating bacteria, whereas fluoride claims to treat dental decay. These purposes are quite different. New Health is concerned at some of the implications of the decision. For example on its face it permits councils to put medicines such as the claimed mood-enhancer lithium in the water supply. Additionally the water supply potentially could be a delivery system for vaccines. Delivering medication this way is contrary to medical ethics as its fails to control for dose, individual need and sensitivities, and overrides individual consent. Kind regards Dave Sloan New health NZ Inc Court Judgement New Health v Taranaki Hansen Jugement 7th march 2014.pdfNew Health New Zealand Incorporated has employed Wellington Barrister Lisa Hansen to challenge the South Taranaki District Council on their decision to fluoridate the water supply. The hearing is scheduled for 25-26 November 2013. Further updates will be posted on the website after the hearing.The National Radio sound-bite about “Growing Unease Over Fluoridation” is certainly worth listening to.The Professor speaking is Prof. Howard Pollock of the American Dental Association (ADA) who is also Clinical Director of Dental Services at University of California. He advises that fluoridated water should NOT be used for making up infant formula. Instead he states that the ADA is advising that mothers should avoid tap water and, instead, buy bottled (unfluoridated) water from the super-market for this purpose. He also states that the fluoride ingested by many children will exceed the tolerable intake. On the same sound bite Dr Martin Lee claims that the ADA warning does not apply to NZ because in NZ water is only fluoridated at up to 1 ppm. But Prof. Howard Pollock contradicts Martin Lee by stating that using fluoridated water for baby formula is of real concern for water fluoridated at the standard level of 1 ppm in NZ.in most US cities and also in NZ. He says that infant formula reconstituted using fluoridated water can cause dental fluorosis in children’s teeth even prior to tooth eruption. He states that some children (on fluoridated water supplies) will be ingesting too much fluoride. Lawrie Brett (Whangerei dentist) and Jackie Pou (Northland anti-F campaigner) also feature very well on this sound bite.
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