Michael Connett, the renowned US lawyer who led and won a historic legal battle against water fluoridation, is coming to New Zealand in February. This landmark visit offers Kiwis the chance to hear first hand from a lawyer who took on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a case that will lead to the end of…
US EPA appeals Federal Court Ruling From Fluoride Action Network: The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit gave the EPA a deadline of mid-January of 2025 to decide if they planned to appeal the ruling. On January 17th, several days before the appeal deadline and only three days before a new EPA administrator…
A new US Government review of fluoride and IQ studies published Monday 6 January 2025 found that fluoride, even at levels experienced in New Zealand, was consistently associated with lower IQ in children and that this damage is permanent. This review is hugely significant as it was carried out by the US Government’s top scientific body, the National Toxicology…
Last week the Whangarei District Council reconfirmed its decision to reject the Director-General of Health’s (DG) directive to fluoridate the Whangarei water supply with toxic fluoridation chemicals sourced from industrial waste. The council originally voted to reject the directive on the 28th of November, however, it was brought back to council to reconsider after…
Andrew Johnstone’s opinion piece (Waikato Times, 30 November) is high on opinion and light on facts. For starters, without any doubt Europe has rejected water fluoridation. Not one country in continental Europe currently fluoridates their water supply. The Basque region in Spain quietly ceased fluoridation in 2024 and Serbia ceased in 2003. Water fluoridation has…
Council Meeting Wednesday 18 December 2024 In response the the Council’s decision on the 28th of November to reject the fluoridation directive, Dr Diana Sarfati, Director-General of Health, wrote to the Council and reiterated that it was an offence to not comply with the directive and she had the legal authority to impose severe fines on…
As you may be aware, a US Federal Court issued a ruling in September 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 meet this obligation is to…
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…
“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,…
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…
