Water samples taken by Oamaru residents and sent to an accredited laboratory found the level of fluoride in the water coming out their taps was well outside the council’s stipulated target and outside the upper limit recommended for fluoridation by the Ministry of Health. The samples were taken on the 20th, 23rd and 24th of…
Fluoridation is your choice – some councils starting to push back on directive Dear Mayor and councillors We are aware that you are planning on starting fluoridation on the 30th of November. Please be informed: You do have a choice Why Tauranga City Council started fluoridation Community Board in Waipa is pushing back Whangarei councillor…
Does The US Court Ruling On Fluoride Change Anything In New Zealand? Sean Plunket: Look, I have long been involved or observed and I guess they were the, in some ways, the original cookers, the original anti-vaxxers in New Zealand, the people who are banging on about some great conspiracy involving fluoride in our water.…
“When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty” Councillor Gavin Benney will be proposing at the 28 November 2024 council meeting for the council to reject the Director-General of Health’s (Dr Diana Sarfati) directive to fluoridate Whangarei. Cr Benney is calling on his fellow councillors to do the right thing and refuse to add a neurotoxin…
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…
