Candidate Responses to Survey – 2016 Election Name Opposed to Fluoridation Responsibility Comment Robyn Northey No Decided by DHBs I am a former School Dental Nurse and see the ravages in teeth -adult and children-caused by poor diet and poor oral hygiene .Strengthening teeth with fluoridated water is a safe and useful public health…
Read detailsAN EFFECTIVE WAY TO REDUCE CHILDHOOD CARIES: A COMPARISON OF CHILD ORAL HEALTH PROGRAMS IN NEW ZEALAND AND SCOTLAND Download PDF Version COMPARISON OF IMPROVED CARIES FREE STATUS IN CHILDREN IN NEW ZEALAND AND SCOTLAND Examination of published data on the Caries Free (CF) status of children in New Zealand and Scotland between 2000 and…
Read detailsFluoride Free NZ’s presentation of the Franklin Ward Petition to Auckland Council Regional Strategy and Policy Committee meeting 7 April 2016 Video recording can be watched here. Time From: 2m 23sec To: 12m 11sec Transcript: Kane Titchener: Thank you. I have handed in the petition and the signatures. I would also like 2 information sheets distributed…
Read detailsA match box containing a blob of mercury, a potent neurotoxin to take home. An ingredient of amalgam that had been inserted into a young mouth. This was the norm and reward for a visit to the school dental nurse when I was a lad. Amalgam fillings have surreptitiously been replaced by composite materials where…
Latest 7 March 2024 Director-General of Health accepts Council’s request to delay fluoridation. Now on hold until at least 31 December 2024. Correspondence related to decision: 15 February 2024 Mayor Nick Smith writes to Minister of Health Shane Reti. 22 February 2024 Director-General of Health responds to Mayor Nick Smith. 22 February 2024 Director-General of…
Read detailsWorld Renowned Environmentalist and Consumer Advocate speaks out for Clean Water Erin Brockovich See the latest legal document prepared by Erin Brockovich to the National Governors Association on 27th April 2016. Rolling Stone Magazine 1st February 2016 Erin Brockovich Sounded the Alarm on Flint a Year Ago — Why Didn’t Anyone Listen?…
Read detailsWhat is more serious, one dental filling or thyroid disease? Mr Dunne thinks a dental filling is more serious. Associate Minister Peter Dunne, says that the new peer reviewed research from the UK, which showed that fluoridation increased the rate of hypothyroidism (under-active thyroid) by 60% “not to have shifted the balance of health benefit…
Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne made the extraordinary statement that sugar is not the main problem associated with tooth decay in response to calls from dentists to have a tax on sugar. His comments were made on the current affairs Programe Sunday on the 7th of March 2015. Sunday “Peter Dunne says the answer…
On the 7th of March 2015, Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne made the extraordinary statement that sugar is not the primary issue associated with tooth decay. This is what he said on the TV Show Sunday One man’s mission to get rid of our sweet tooth at 9m15s. Peter Dunne: “There is no…
Read detailsThe non-profit health advocacy group Fluoride Free New Zealand is concerned about misinformation and ongoing scaremongering perpetrated by the New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA) regarding water fluoridation. The NZDA have shown pictures of children with mouths full of rotting teeth, and even use these to lobby councils to maintain the out-of-date crumbling policy of water…
Radio New Zealand – Jim Mora Show 27th February 2015 Panelists Finlay MacDonald and Chris Gallavin Transcript of Jim Mora and Rob Beaglehole. Fluoride Free NZ comments in red. Jim: Fluoride could cause depression and weight gain, that’s the headline and the same sort of headline in more than one English paper, not just the Daily Mail.…
Councillor Fluoridation Postition statement Harry Duynhoven Maurice Betts For Based upon current Health Dept information we have. Some other counter information is unable to be verified. There will be a review of this matter next year. I look forward to any new quantified information. Shaun Biesiek Against I do not support fluoridation. During this years…
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