We are everyday Kiwis backed by informed dental and health professionals who have studied the research on water fluoridation. Water fluoridation is not the answer to tooth decay and dental health polices that are being used overseas, with far more success, should be implemented in New Zealand.Swallowing fluoride does not reduce dental decay but it does impact the whole body.
A 12 year, US Government funded, multi-million dollar study published in Environmental Health Perspectives has found children exposed in utero have reduced IQ……. see more
Attorney Michael Connett summarizes 10 basic facts about fluoride that should be considered in any discussion about whether to fluoridate water. To download the flyer that accompanies this video, click here. To watch Michael debate the fluoridation issue with several fluoridation advocates, click here.
The late Dr John Colquhoun was the Principal Dental Officer of Auckland and head of the Fluoridation Promotion Group when he changed his mind about fluoridation Why I Changed My Mind About Fluoridation
The US National Toxicology Program (an Interagency run by the US Government’s Health and Human Services) released a draft report last Wednesday (15th March) linking prenatal and childhood fluoride exposure to reduced IQ in children, after public health officials tried for almost a year to block its publication. The report has been six years in the making and…
Read detailsThe 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…
Read detailsThe 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…
Read detailsTooth 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…
Read detailsThe Director-General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, has advised all local councils with unfluoridated communities that he intends issuing an instruction to fluoridate their water. The decision on fluoridation has always rested with local communities, upon the advice of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Fluoridation in 1957. However, the last National Government and this Labour…
Read detailsThe revelation that fluoridation levels in Wellington and Upper Hutt water supplies has been below, and often well below, “recommended” levels, yet tooth decay rates have been unaffected, confirms that water fluoridation does not reduce tooth decay. Parents can be reassured that the drop in fluoridation levels has not caused their child to have tooth…
Read detailsThe Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor has released a document purporting to show the latest science on fluoridation. However, among the many mistakes and reliance on out-of-date science, the most glaring issue is that she refers to two of the best studies ever carried out on fluoride and IQ (Mexico and Canada) as “having high…
Read detailsThe Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor (PMCSA) has just published a new page on fluoridation which is pure propaganda, ignoring or misrepresenting the current scientific knowledge. We have no doubt that the sole purpose is to provide a basis for the back door mandatory fluoridation Bill currently before Parliament, and the profluoridation decision expected from the Director-General of…
Read detailsSent as Press Release on the 22nd March 2021 It is disgraceful! The Government’s latest move on the Fluoridation Bill to now shift decision making solely to the Director General of Health proves its intention of mandatory fluoridation. This will make New Zealand one of only three countries in the world with mandatory fluoridation. The…
Read detailsDear Ms Ardern, Regarding your announcement that Government is proceeding with the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Bill which seeks to amend Part 2A of the Health Act 1956. Key considerations Ministry of Health advisors to Government on fluoridation have been overly influenced by the dental profession. According to a Ministry of Health response to me from…
Read detailsOpen Letter to Health Minister Andrew Little sent Monday 25th January 2021 Dear Hon Andrew Little As New Zealand’s leading advocate for science in the fluoridation debate we formally accept your offer as Minister of Health to publicly air the science on this issue, “challenging those who wish to ignore that science”, as reported in Stuff…
Read details“Fluoride is presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to humans” according to the second draft report of the US National Toxicology Programme (NTP), that has just been released. The National Toxicology Program (NTP) is an inter-agency program run by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate, evaluate, and report on toxicology within public agencies. This…
Read detailsFluoride Free New Zealand have been running two adverts on Giggle for the past six weeks. Giggle ads are soundless adverts on screens in various places such as service stations and doctor’s surgeries. Fluroidation is Toxic Waste Disposal Fluroide is a Neurotoxin Complaints have been made to the Advertising Standards Authority but the ASA has…
Read detailsToxic industrial waste fluoride is now being added to Waverley’s water supply, in a vain attempt to reduce tooth decay rates. The only thing it will lower is Waverley children’s IQ, according to the latest science. The latest research from Canada, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, confirms that bottle-fed babies living…
Read detailsThe San Francisco Federal Court has ordered the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take a second look at a petition to require the EPA to complete a proper risk assessment of fluoride, which it has failed to do. This will mean the high quality studies published in the last few years must be included…
Read detailsIn the first 3 years of life children lose 4.4 IQ points for every 0.5 mg fluoride added to their drinking water if they are formula-fed rather than breast-fed. This is the finding of a particularly well-conducted study from Canada just published in the prestigious journal Environment International. Babies exclusively breast-fed for the first 6…
Read detailsIt is hard to believe that the NZ Dental Association is still calling for the Fluoridation (Health Amendment) Bill, a.k.a the Mandatory Fluoridation Bill, to be passed despite a bombshell study (Green et al) published in one of the world’s top medical journals this year, JAMA Pediatrics. The study found that fluoridated water was associated…
Read detailsVoting papers for Local body elections starts week beginning 23rd September 2019. We have been collecting candidate views on fluoridation. See this Election page for the replies we have received so far. This page is still being updated as replies come in.
Half page newspaper ad in the NZ Herald, Bay of Plenty Times, Rotorua Daily Post, Hawke’s Bay Today,the Wanganui Chronicle and twenty community papers first week of September. Critics of the fluoride-IQ study published this month in JAMA Pediatrics claimed it needed replication. However, the Canadian study by Green (2019) was already a replication of another…
Read detailsPREGNANT WOMEN ADVISED TO AVOID FLUORIDATED WATER Dunedin Airport has chosen to tear down the Fluoride Free NZ billboard because it didn’t agree with it. ‘The issue was also “down to our values”, and how the airport worked with its business partners. “We want to do what’s right for the region and for our customers,”…
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