PREGNANT 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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The world’s premier pediatric journal (JAMA Pediatrics) has published a new government-funded study, Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring, confirming our worst fears, linking exposure to fluoridated water during pregnancy to lowered IQ for the developing child. Making the publication of this study even more impactful is that it…
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The O’Brien Institute for Public Health at Calgary University has just released their report on fluoridation. This institute has, up to now, been staunchly in favour of fluoridation. However, yesterday, with regards to fluoride’s effect on the brain, they say “The new emerging studies in this domain need to be tracked very closely, and carefully…
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A recent review identifies the molecular mechanisms by which fluoride inhibits sodium iodide symporter expression and functionality, which in turn contributes to impaired iodide absorption, diminished iodide-concentrating ability, and iodine deficiency disorders[1]. Overall, studies suggest that fluoride exposure directly affects the bio-availability of iodine in humans. This is particularly important for New Zealanders, as NZ…
Read detailsThere was nothing socially irresponsible or misleading about an advertisement regarding fluoride lowering children’s IQ, the Advertising Standards Complaints Appeal Board has ruled, overturning part of a decision by the Complaints Board in November 2018. Complaints were therefore not upheld. The Complaints Board had originally ruled that the claims were substantiated and that the advertisement…
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Last week three new studies were published on fluoride adding more weight to an already overwhelming body of evidence that fluoridation is not safe. “I have grave concerns about the health effects of fluoride” said Ashley Malin, lead author of the Canadian Fluoride-Thyroid study and a researcher at the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public…
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A conference organized jointly by the International Society for Exposure Science (ISES) and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), held in Ottawa, Canada from Aug 26-30, has revealed that contrary to claims made repeatedly by NZ health authorities, water fluoridation poses many risks, especially to the unborn child and people with iodine deficiency. Of…
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Water fluoridation is compulsory mass medication, in breach of human rights, the Supreme Court has ruled by a majority vote. It confirmed that fluoridation is a medical treatment as claimed by opponents for over 60 years. It is not a supplement “just topping up natural levels”, as claimed by the Ministry of Health. The impracticality…
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Physicians and Scientists for Global Responsibility New Zealand Charitable Trust Formerly Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Genetics New Zealand PO Box 9446 TAURANGA 3112 Email Physicians 23.5.2018 Dear Member of Parliament MoH POLICY OF FLUORIDATION OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES The accompanying paper draws your attention to adverse consequences of the Ministry of Health…
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Last week (15/5/18) CEO of Ballance Fertiliser pleaded guilty to allowing toxic fluoride to be emitted into the air. According to this Herald article: Ballance Agri-Nutrients is facing a large fine after a toxic gas cloud from its fertiliser manufacturing plant wafted over a group of workers and two truck drivers. Workers at the Ballance…
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