Fluoride Free New Zealand and New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science take legal action against Hastings District Council over Fluoridation.

Fluoride Free New Zealand (FFNZ), along with New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS), filed for an Injunction against the Hastings District Council in the Wellington High Court yesterday (9 April 2024). FFNZ and NZDSOS consider the Hastings District Council’s decision to resume fluoridating Hastings community water supplies to be unlawful, unscientific, undemocratic and…

April 10, 2024 Leave a commentNews, Press ReleasesBy mary

Protest at Hastings District Council against forced fluoridation.

A protest is planned for tomorrow, Friday 5 April outside the Hastings District Council in Lyndon Road East. The protest is in response to the Council’s decision to start fluoridation without any public consultation and without completing a New Zealand Bill of Rights analysis as required by a High Court ruling in November last year. Fluoridation was…

April 4, 2024 Leave a commentNews, Press ReleasesBy mary

Letter – Council should pause Fluoridation plans

Letter sent to Far North District Council, Hastings District Council, Kawerau District Council and Tararua District Council 14 March 2024. Dear Mayor and Councillors On Thursday last week (7/3/24), the Nelson City Council received agreement from the Director General of Health that fluoridation implementation could be delayed until 31 December 2024 (was due to start…

March 13, 2024 Leave a commentPress ReleasesBy mary

Nelson City Council backs off fluoridation – not confident of legal status.

Nelson City councillors were advised on Thursday (7th March 2024) that the Ministry of Health has agreed to an extension to the implementation date for fluoridation because of the ongoing legal uncertainty about the directive. In a letter to the Minister on 15 February, Mayor Nick Smith requested an extension to the implementation date saying…

March 8, 2024 Leave a commentNews, Press ReleasesBy mary

High Court finds Ashley Bloomfield’s fluoride directive unlawful

High Court finds Ashley Bloomfield’s fluoride directive unlawful A High Court decision issued last Friday in the New Health New Zealand vs the Director General of Health (DG) case, found that the DG acted unlawfully because he had failed to consider the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (BORA) before he mandated 14 Councils to…

November 14, 2023 13 CommentsNews, Press ReleasesBy mary

Ministry of Health refuses to front up to Council on fluoridation science.

The Western Bay of Plenty (WBOP) District Council requested the Ministry of Health speak to them about the issues raised by the public – including the safety and ethics of water fluoridation. The Ministry of Health have refused to front-up.

September 4, 2023 Leave a commentNews, Press ReleasesBy mary

Legal Challenge to MoH Fluoridation Directives Filed

On the 12th of June 2023, New Health New Zealand filed proceedings against Director-General (DG) of Health’s directives to 14 Local councils to fluoridate parts of their water supplies. A further 27 councils have been advised that the DG has an intention to direct fluoridation. Last week, New Health New Zealand wrote to these 14 councils advising them…

August 6, 2023 1 CommentNews, Press ReleasesBy mary

Rebuttal of Stuff’s “The Whole Truth: Water fluoridation – at recommended levels – is safe and beneficial”

On the 28th of March 2023, New Zealand mainstream media outlet Stuff, published an article titled “The Whole Truth: Water fluoridation – at recommended levels – is safe and beneficial.” Stuff’s article was in response to the release of the US Government’s National Toxicology Program’s Monograph titled “NTP Monograph on the State of the Science Concerning…

April 1, 2023 1 CommentNews, Press ReleasesBy mary

Damning US Govt report released on Fluoride and IQ loss – Like putting lead back in petrol

March 21, 2023 4 CommentsPress ReleasesBy mary

Anti-science, fanaticism and fantasy behind fluoridation directive

The decision to direct Councils to fluoridate water supplies appears to have been made without Dr Bloomfield considering any of the matters he was legally required to consider before giving a direction, an Official Information Act reply reveals. The Government was losing the scientific argument so it passed the power to a political bureaucrat who would…

August 1, 2022 3 CommentsNews, Press ReleasesBy mary

Wellington Water Saves Children’s IQs – Albeit Unwittingly

The revelation that Wellington water was not being fluoridated at times over the past six years provides unexpected health benefits. Fluoridation was stopped completely at Te Marua’s Twin Lakes in February 2021 and at the Gear Island station in December last year. This has meant many residents in the Wellington region have been receiving non-fluoridated…

July 20, 2022 1 CommentPress ReleasesBy mary

Tooth decay decreases after fluoridation ceases

Tooth decay has decreased in New Plymouth since fluoridation ceased in late 2011, and at the much same rate as still-fluoridated Stratford and Hawera. This is according to the official data obtained from the (former) Taranaki DHB. This is consistent with other communities that have ceased fluoridation, such as Timaru, Ashburton and Tauranga. For 5-year…

July 11, 2022 1 CommentPress ReleasesBy mary

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