Director-General of Health continues to force harmful chemical on NZ population despite harm now well established.

Since 2017, there have been ten U.S. Government funded studies that have found fluoride causes brain damage. Fluoride, at levels New Zealanders are exposed to via fluoridation, is now associated with lowered IQ and central nervous system disorders such as anxiety, depression and ADHD.

In 2006 the U.S. Government’s National Research Council undertook research to find out if the Upper Limit for fluoride in water should be reduced. They found that “…. it is apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain and the body by direct and indirect means…. To determine the possible adverse effects of fluoride, additional data from both the experimental and the clinical sciences are needed.”

In 2012 a meta-analysis of 27 human fluoride IQ studies was published by a group of Harvard researchers. Most of these studies were from China and India where some of their water supplies contain high amounts of naturally occurring fluoride. They found “children in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low-fluoride areas.”

But it wasn’t until 2017 that the first U.S. Government funded human study on fluoride and IQ was published. Research is continuing to be published from well-funded and well-designed studies that cannot be refuted. The latest study was published in May 2024. 

The Director-General of Health, Dr Diana Sarfati, is wilfully ignoring these high quality studies and forcing even more people to drink fluoridated water by directing councils to start fluoridation regardless of the harms and the public opposition.