Last weekend (12 Oct), at a packed conference of 275 delegates, New Zealand First overwhelmingly passed a remit to advocate for the repeal of the Amendment to the Health Act that gave decision making to the Director-General of Health (DGH). This Amendment, made in 2021, provides no right for communities to be consulted in any…
On 14 October the Tauranga City Council voted by majority to add a developmental neurotoxin to Tauranga’s water supply, permanently damaging the brains of the next generation of the children to be born in Tauranga. They did so because they voted to follow, rather than challenge, the directive from the Director-General of Health, Diana Sarfati,…
Critique of MoH response: The WHO has not published any report since the publishing of the US Government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) studies that started in 2017 looking at fluoride and IQ. The 2014 report conducted by the Royal Society and the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor has a major error.…
Water fluoridation might result in 1/4 less filling per person or 3-4% more people without any tooth decay – or it might have no benefit at all! This is the finding of the latest review by the Cochrane Collaboration – internationally regarded as the gold standard in health reviews. This is consistent with two recent…
From: Morgan Godfery <>Date: 2 October 2024 at 3:43:38 PM NZDTTo: Kawerau resident, Faylene Tunui <>, Deputy Mayor <>Subject: RE: OIA Request Kia ora, Further to your request, I’ve compiled the following. 1. The filter at the New World tap is called ResinTech SIR-900. The manufacturer describes their system as “a granular aluminum oxide-based…
Dear Mayor and Councillors, As many of you are probably aware, a US Federal Court issued a ruling yesterday that “fluoridation poses an unreasonable risk to human health”. (See Ruling here). The US Environmental Protection Agency is now obligated by law to restrict or eliminate the risk. It appears that the only thing that can be done to…
The ruling in the US Court case on fluoridation is out! The Federal Court judge has concluded “Plaintiffs have proven, by a preponderance of the evidence, that water fluoridation at the level of 0.7 mg/L – the prescribed optimal level of fluoridation in the United States – presents an “unreasonable risk of injury to health…
The US National Toxicology Program (NTP) has just released its final version of a major review that finds a “large body” of evidence that fluoride exposure is “consistently associated with lower IQ in children”. The NTP represents the highest quality science on this topic in the world. Consequently there are now headlines like this around…
Dear Mayor and councillors We are pleased that you will be discussing fluoridation at your meeting on Monday 26th August 2024. We have read the report provided by Council officers and would like to draw your attention to a number of areas that we believe needs further consideration. Our intention, like yours, is to provide the best outcome…
Fluoride Free New Zealand has launched a parliamentary petition calling for an end to water fluoridation. The aim of the petition is to make decision makers aware of the depth of feeling that exists in New Zealand against fluoridation. This has become very evident since 14 councils were directed last year to fluoridate their water…
The office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor and the Director General of Health, Dr Diana Sarfarti, have dismissed the growing evidence from around the world that fluoride is a neurotoxin, preferring instead to rely on the findings from a very low quality New Zealand study. The Broadbent study was published in the American…
Another significant study on fluoride harm in humans has just been published. This is the first human study to provide the mechanism by which fluoride is causing harm. This adds to the ever growing database of human studies finding fluoride causes harm to the developing brain. See our page Research since the 2014 NZ Fluoridation Report…
