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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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NZ Fluoride Report Inept & Misleading, International Experts
Wednesday, 3 December 2014, 12:12 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Press Release: Fluoride Free NZ 1 December 2014 An international panel of science and medical professionals has published a critical analysis of the 2014 New Zealand fluoridation report , Health effects of water fluoridation – A review of the scientific ... More >>
Fluoride Free New Zealand: Dirty Science
Saturday, 23 August 2014, 12:31 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
A “review” of fluoridation published yesterday (22nd August) was chaired by committed fluoridationists Professors Peter Gluckman and David Skegg. Both of these men had already hung their hat on the fluoridationists’ mantra of “safe and effective”. More >>
Big Win for Common Sense - No Fluoridation for Rotorua
Sunday, 3 August 2014, 2:40 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Fluoride Free New Zealand congratulates Rotorua councillors for abandoning plans to hold a referendum. This is despite intense efforts from fluoridation lobbyists with the DHB even offering to pay half or up to $50,000 for a referendum. More >>
Open letter to Labour's David Shearer
Friday, 25 July 2014, 1:48 pm | Fluoride Free New Zealand
Fluoride Free NZ is surprised to hear you refer to those of us who take an active concern of clean pure drinking water as parasites. We find your comments baseless and insulting to the majority of international scientists and world governments, ... More >>
Dunedin IQ-fluoride study Sloppy Science
Thursday, 22 May 2014, 1:19 pm | Fluoride Action Network
Not only were there too few unfluoridated children in this study to give reliable results (99), it is likely that they were a large proportion of the 139 children who took fluoride tablets. If so, there is no ‘unfluoridated’ group. Why was ... More >>
No fault with fluoride quiz answers
Sunday, 27 April 2014, 2:59 pm | Fluoride Action Network
The Advertising Standards Authority has found no fault with the answers to the fluoride quizzes run earlier this year. The Authority has simply ruled that, because FANNZ is an advocacy organization, it needed to identify whether the answers were established ... More >>
Hamilton Councillors Knowingly Put Babies at Risk
Saturday, 29 March 2014, 10:03 am | Fluoride Action Network
“There is strong evidence that fluoride should not be ingested at all by babies under six months old and bottle-fed babies are therefore at greater potential risk” according to the Hamilton City Council (HCC), published in the City News in June ... More >>
Medical Treatments via the Water Supply
Saturday, 8 March 2014, 6:37 pm | Fluoride Action Network
It's open slather on administering drugs via our water supplies, and now many other ways. How about the air we breathe? Judge Hanson’s ruling sets a dangerous precedent. The ruling on the legality of fluoridation comes down to the fact that Judge Hanson ... More >>
Fluoridation promoters too scared to debate expert
Monday, 3 February 2014, 1:53 pm | Fluoride Action Network
TV3 has had to cancel a fluoridation debate scheduled for its Firstline programme Monday morning because no one from the pro fluoridation side will appear live. More >>
Waikato Times Caught Lying About Fluoride Survey Results
Monday, 2 December 2013, 9:51 am | Fluoride Action Network
The Waikato Times has been caught out reversing its online survey results about the Hamilton City Council’s decision on Thursday to defer its fluoridation decision. The poll asked people if they supported the council’s decision to wait until the ... More >>
Forcing Fluoridation on all of NZ?
Thursday, 21 November 2013, 10:00 am | Fluoride Action Network
Press Release Fluoride Action Network New Zealand (FANNZ) www.fannz.org.nz 21st November 2013 More >>
Kapiti District Council Taken to Court over Fluoridation
Friday, 1 November 2013, 4:21 pm | Fluoride Action Network
The Kapiti Coast District Council is facing judicial review over its 2010 decision to retain water fluoridation. More >>
Dietitians New Zealand qualifications do not impress
Friday, 25 October 2013, 11:23 am | Flouride Action Network New Zealand
Dietitians New Zealand qualifications do not impress in the debate on Water Dietitians New Zealand are misguided in their support of water fluoridation and the value of their post-graduate qualifications credibility will be called into question over ... More >>
Why New Zealanders are getting fatter
Monday, 21 October 2013, 10:18 am | Fluoride Action Network
Hypothyroidism (under active thyroid) is one of the most common causes of weight gain and depression in New Zealand. Prescriptions for thyroid medication have sky-rocketed over the past 40 years, with thyroxine now being the 19th most commonly prescribed ... More >>
Why New Zealanders are getting fatter
Saturday, 19 October 2013, 1:20 pm | Fluoride Action Network
Hypothyroidism (under active thyroid) is one of the most common causes of weight gain and depression in New Zealand. Prescriptions for thyroid medication have sky-rocketed over the past 40 years, with thyroxine now being the 19th most commonly prescribed ... More >>
DHB's still in trouble with Fluoridation
Monday, 14 October 2013, 9:34 am | Fluoride Action Network
After breathing a brief sigh of relief, DHBs and the Ministry of Health must be deeply troubled that after 50 years of general propaganda, four months of a national level Big Brother style propaganda campaign from prominent figures like the Chief Science ... More >>
Fluoride interferes with Essential Iodine
Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 11:22 am | Fluoride Action Network
“Fluoridation is likely to be depressing the iodine levels of Whakatane and Ohope people and causing illness” says Dr Mogan Poppe in the Whakatane Beacon last week. More >>
Ex Dental Nurse Changes her Mind on Fluoridation
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 9:18 am | Fluoride Action Network
Lois Titchener graduated as a school Dental Nurse in 1969. She like many health professionals, current and former, has reversed her position on fluoridation after coming to the conclusion that fluoridation is potentially unsafe and definitely unnecessary. More >>
Fluoridation Should End Immediately Says Government Report
Monday, 30 September 2013, 9:43 am | Fluoride Action Network
“The practice of water fluoridation should end immediately. All of the available evidence suggests that not only will this lead to a marked reduction in fluorosis but that there would not be a significant rise in dental caries.” More >>
Top fluoridation promoter chooses unfluoridated Napier water
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 12:06 pm | Fluoride Action Network
Robin Whyman is the dental consultant for the Ministry of Health’s National Fluoridation Information Service and is arguably the top fluoridation promoter in the country. More >>
