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Fluoride Free New Zealand
(Fluoride Action Network NZ)
We are a non profit, public health education and advocacy organisation working toward stopping the addition of harmful fluoride chemicals to the public drinking water.
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Studies Should Provoke A Nation-Wide Fluoridation Moratorium
Thursday, 5 September 2019, 10:14 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
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 U.S. government-funded study published in 2017 by Bashash, ... More >>
Ground Breaking Study - Fluoridated Water Lowers Kid's IQs
Wednesday, 21 August 2019, 9:43 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
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 ... More >>
Time to listen to Pro-fluoridation agencies raising alarms
Saturday, 20 July 2019, 12:54 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
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, ... More >>
Fluoridation contributes to Iodine deficiency and illness
Monday, 29 April 2019, 9:07 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
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 ... More >>
Fluoride Reduces IQ advert - NOT socially irresponsible
Monday, 14 January 2019, 8:22 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
There 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. ... More >>
Canadian studies prompt researcher to voice grave concerns
Monday, 15 October 2018, 1:49 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
New Canadian studies prompt researcher to voice grave concerns about fluoride 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 ... More >>
Infant And Fetal Pathologist Warns Against Fluoride
Thursday, 6 September 2018, 11:10 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
About three hundred people turned up to Otago University on Tuesday night to hear three overseas experts talk about the evidence and the potential mechanisms of how fluoride effects the brain. The three experts were unanimous in their recommendation ... More >>
Fluoridation is mass medication, NZ Supreme Court rules
Thursday, 28 June 2018, 7:59 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
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 ... More >>
World Leading Fluoridation Expert speaking around NZ
Wednesday, 7 February 2018, 9:15 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
'Fluoridation is not safe and not effective' is the message from Fluoride Free New Zealand, who are hosting a series of free public lectures on the topic this February. Internationally renowned expert Professor Paul Connett, co-author of The Case Against ... More >>
Request to Michelle Dickinson to debate Fluoride
Saturday, 3 February 2018, 8:13 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Your incredulous reaction to Prof Paul Connett’s appearance at Parliament on the 30th January Newshub piece is in stark contrast to your response to being asked to participate in a debate against Prof Connett in April 2017. You said, “As you know ... More >>
Why is Coleman so afraid of latest science on fluoridation
Wednesday, 31 January 2018, 1:56 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Why is Coleman so afraid of the latest science on fluoridation? National Health spokesperson, Jonathan Coleman, is castigating the Government for allowing the latest science on fluoridation to be aired. "This is now going to unfairly colour the debate and ... More >>
NZ Health Officials Proven Wrong on Mercury Amalgam Fillings
Friday, 19 January 2018, 11:16 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Finally, NZ health officials are moving to stop mercury amalgam fillings. The Waikato DHB announced today that it was no longer going to use mercury amalgam fillings after the European Union announced it was banning amalgam fillings for children . More >>
New US Government Study on Fluoride Damage to Brain
Thursday, 21 September 2017, 2:04 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
New US Government Study on Fluoride Damage to Brain must Spell End to Fluoridation in New Zealand More >>
Open Letter to Sir Professor Peter Gluckman
Thursday, 27 April 2017, 4:15 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
We would like to take you up on your commendable offer to “make yourself available” at this crucial time to discuss fluoridation of the public drinking water supply across New Zealand before the second reading of the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking ... More >>
"Nanogirl" Dr Michelle Dickinson Reneges on Fluoride Debate
Friday, 21 April 2017, 4:46 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
The question has to be asked - why after denigrating opponents of fluoridation and claiming that she has the science on her side, will Dr Dickinson not front up to a public debate like she agreed? More >>
Top NZ Scientist Set to Face Fluoridation Expert
Monday, 17 April 2017, 2:14 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Dr Michelle Dickinson, Auckland University Professor and nanotechnologist has agreed to debate Professor Paul Connett, Senior Advisor to the Fluoride Action Network. She will be inviting Sir Peter Gluckman to join her in this debate with Professor ... More >>
Confusion from Pro-Fluoride Group
Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 1:12 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
In a press release last week, the head of pro-fluoride activist group Making Sense of Fluoride, Dan Ryan expressed astonishment that the Royal Society of NZ once supported keeping leaded petrol; Ryan went as far as to deny it. His confusion went further, ... More >>
Call to Gov to Act on Precautionary Principle with Fluoride
Friday, 31 March 2017, 11:53 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
“It was petrol in the 70s and 80s - what’s the equivalent today?” presenter Petra Bagust asked on TV3’s programme The Project , which covered this week’s news about lead exposure lowering IQ by more than 4 points. More >>
Protest Demonstration Against Fluoride Bill
Tuesday, 21 March 2017, 11:35 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
People opposed to fluoridation will hold a demonstration outside Parliament on Wednesday 22nd March, starting at 1pm, after the oral presentations to the Health Select Committee. The Select Committee received over 1,200 written submissions, of which over 90% were ... More >>
EPA Petition Could Spell End of Fluoridation
Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 10:36 am | fluoride Action Network
The New Zealand Government's proposal to take away legal responsibility for water fluoridation from local councils and give it to the District Health Boards could prove to be an exercise in futility. More >>
