Assuming fluoride is required, the following 12 results were found.
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of NSW water is fluoridated). But that was certainly not the impression given by the makeup of the 200-plus crowd at the fluoride forum held at Byron Community Centre on 16 October. After anti-fluoride activists proffered lobbying material (“No way a...
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- Author: Robin Osborne
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of providing extra protection to the broader population, adding that scientific studies had shown no proven links between fluoride, even in high concentrations, and the serious medical conditions raised. When Mayor Jenny Dowell asked whether “disease...
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- Author: Robin Osborne
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The decision was taken by a slender margin of 6/5, and it cannot be assumed that fluoridation is now inevitable. Fluoride opponents could – and are likely to - take the issue back to Council for further debate and voting. However, this would not occur...
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- Author: Robin Osborne
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within the next four weeks, a time-frame likely to coincide with that set recently by Lismore City Council for its own fluoride briefing workshop. Unlike Lismore, which will hold two consecutive sessions in order to keep adversaries apart, Byron will...
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general practitioners are urging a more respectful debate over water fluoridation, saying both advocates and opponents of fluoride should argue their cases calmly and take due account of the evidence-based science about the issue. The Board chair of the...
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- Author: David Guest
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the fluoridation of Lismore’s water supply “Sugar is the enemy,” said Vanessa Ekins, leader of Lismore City Council’s anti-fluoride group and proposer of a motion to overturn the 2006 decision to have Rous Water fluoridate Lismore’s reticulated supply....
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- Author: Robin Osborne
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1970s - to providing fluoridated drinking water to residents, nor would any other council that decided to go down the fluoride path, according to NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner. Speaking today with ABC North Coast, the Minister was responding to a...
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subsequent closed briefing for councilors and staff, Byron Shire Council today (21 Nov) voted 5-3 against a motion to add fluoride to its water supply. Long opposed to fluoridation from the Rous Water supply, Byron Shire revisited the issue at the...
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circus.” Such a law would enable the mandatory fluoridation of public water supplies. "Every day without fluoride puts a child at risk of preventable dental decay," the MP told the State assembly. "It's time for the NSW government to step in and take...
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the NSW Government’s health services are stretched for funds, and apparently cannot devote resources to conducting a pro-fluoride publicity campaign. The risk, however, is that unless the public is equally informed by a sound public health campaign they...
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- Author: Julie Hornibrook
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The Fluoride debatehttps://nordocs.org.au/index.php?view=article&id=67:the-fluoride-debate&catid=8
Patients mostly turn to their own GP for advice on medical matters. Occasionally we are asked about things outside our area of expertise. Fluoridation of the water supply falls into this category but, while the issue is more dental than medical, it is...
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- Author: David Guest
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the covid-19 crisis. NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant is already well known on the North Coast from the time of the fluoride wars in 2013, as covered by GPSpeak. In the early days of the Covid-19 crisis she was working 14-hour days, 7 days per...
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- Author: David Guest
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