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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.
Fluoride Free New Zealand - Latest News [Page 3]
An Opportunity to Stop Fluoridation Nationwide
Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 11:53 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Fluoride Free New Zealand (FFNZ) will present evidence to the Health Select Committee when the issue is discussed in the coming months. They maintain that the evidence shows that fluoridation is outdated, unsafe and ineffective and that excellent public ... More >>
Fluoride Free NZ Wins on Advertising Complaints
Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 10:02 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
The New Zealand Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled in favour of Fluoride Free New Zealand (FFNZ) regarding their controversial TV ads screened this winter. All of the complaints against the FFNZ TV ads were rejected. FFNZ produced two TV ... More >>
PHA Accused of Breaching Election Rules to Push Fluoridation
Monday, 26 September 2016, 9:57 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
The NZ Public Health Association, funded by the Ministry of Health, has been accused of breaching election rules and deceiving candidates in next month’s District Health Board elections. Capital and Coast DHB candidates were asked to complete a PHA survey ... More >>
Dentist warned for misleading public over water fluoridation
Wednesday, 21 September 2016, 2:26 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
NZ Dental Association water fluoridation spokesman and Nelson District Health Board Chief Dental Officer Rob Beaglehole has been cautioned again for giving misleading information. Last week, the New Zealand Dental Council made public its formal “firm ... More >>
Non-Fluoridated Countries Have Better Teeth
Tuesday, 12 July 2016, 12:12 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Alarm bells have now been raised over the number of children needing general anaesthetic surgeries for dental decay. This must be taken seriously but, the answer is NOT more fluoridation. More >>
NZ Research Proves Fluoridation Not Needed
Thursday, 14 April 2016, 5:17 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
NZ Research Proves Fluoridation Not Needed A New Zealand study published in Bio Medical Central Oral Health last month shows dental health improved the greatest extent for children in non-fluoridated areas. There is now no difference in dental ... More >>
Mandatory Nationwide Fluoridation by Stealth
Wednesday, 13 April 2016, 12:26 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
The Government is planning to implement mandatory fluoridation to the whole of New Zealand. Currently, only around 50% of households are on fluoridated water, with only 23 out of 67 local councils still fluoridating, while voicing their growing ... More >>
No consultation needed for stopping or starting Fluoridation
Friday, 8 April 2016, 2:29 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
No consultation needed for stopping or starting Fluoridation, decides Auckland Council Chair of Auckland Council’s Policy and Strategy committee decided unilaterally yesterday that a petition from Fluoride Free New Zealand could be received but not ... More >>
Shhh… Fluoride Quietly Reduced in Auckland Water!
Sunday, 28 February 2016, 7:25 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Auckland Council's water supplier Watercare has quietly gone about reducing the level of fluoride in Auckland's tap water. Without announcement or fanfare from Watercare or Auckland Council, the clandestine move was instead included in an Information ... More >>
Whakatane Loses Golden Opportunity: Fluoridation
Monday, 15 February 2016, 9:45 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Whakatane Loses Golden Opportunity: Fluoridation A shameful day it was, for those Whakatane District Councillors who voted to reverse the decision to stop fluoridation. The Council decision to support the District Health Board in starting a targeted ... More >>
Fluoride-Brain Studies Set to Expose Fluoridation Damage
Wednesday, 16 December 2015, 2:23 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
The US Government’s National Toxicology Program (NTP) is set to conduct new studies looking at fluoride’s adverse effects on the developing brain. The NTP is expected to ratify these studies within the coming months. Results could mean the end to fluoridation ... More >>
Auckland Council Rejects Fluoridation for Onehunga
Friday, 6 November 2015, 4:04 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Auckland Council Rejects Fluoridation for Onehunga in Landslide Auckland Councillors yesterday overwhelmingly voted to reject a proposal to add hazardous fluoride chemicals to the drinking water of Onehunga residents, voting 18 to 3 against the motion. The ... More >>
Fluoride Free New Zealand (FFNZ) rejects NZDA propaganda
Wednesday, 14 October 2015, 1:37 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Claims by David Crum, CEO of the New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA) are incorrect and designed to mislead the public ahead of the Thames referendum on water fluoridation, says FFNZ spokesperson Mary Byrne. More >>
Fluoride Free New Zealand Statement
Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 9:55 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Industry Waste Exec Demands Increase of Toxic Fluoride Disposal, Via Nationwide Fluoride in Drinking Water More >>
One dental filling more important than thyroid disease
Friday, 3 April 2015, 10:30 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
What is more serious, one dental filling or thyroid disease? Mr Dunne thinks a dental filling is more serious. More >>
NZ Dental Association Pedals Fluoridation Misinformation
Thursday, 19 March 2015, 4:03 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
The 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 ... More >>
Acclaimed Fluoridation Experts Touring NZ in February
Wednesday, 18 February 2015, 10:39 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
On invitation from public health education and advocacy organisation Fluoride Free New Zealand, international fluoridation experts Professor Emeritus Paul Connett and Dr Bill Hirzy will be in New Zealand next week, 22nd to the 28th of February. Dr ... More >>
Contributors to NZ Fluoride Review shown to be toothless
Monday, 26 January 2015, 9:12 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Contributors to the New Zealand Fluoride Review shown to be toothless. Monday, 26 January 2015, Press Release: Fluoride Free NZ Fluoride Free NZ calls for an open transparent public discussion of fluoridation where both sides of the argument can ... More >>
A royal blunder
Saturday, 17 January 2015, 10:25 am | Fluoride Free New Zealand
The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor and the Royal Society of New Zealand admitted yesterday, Thursday 15th January, that a serious blunder had been made in their report “Health effects of water fluoridation: a Review of the scientific ... More >>
Judge Advises Circumventing Law on Fluoride
Friday, 19 December 2014, 1:23 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Justice David Collins has taken it upon himself to advise the NZ Ministry of Health's legal team on how best to circumvent the Judicial Review before him, regarding fluoridation in New Zealand. It appears the Judge is well aware that the appeal by New Health ... More >>
