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Southampton Consultation: 72% no from respondents ignored, February 2009 |
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In spite of 72% of local residents opposing fluoridation, South Central Strategic Health Authority (SCSHA) will instruct Southern Water to mass medicate 195,000 people in parts of Southampton and south west Hampshire. SCSHA and Southampton City PCT blatantly promoted fluoridation throughout their Consultation into the PCT's proposal to fluoridate the water supplies of 195,000 people in parts of Southampton and Hampshire, which ran from 8 September to 19 December 2008. In spite of that, a clear majority of local people have responded that they are opposed to fluoridation. The SHA had 10,065 written responses in total. 72% of all local written responses to the consultation were opposed to fluoridation. |
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News Release: Study links fluoride to premature births, New York, 12 November 2009 |
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New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. - News Release November 12, 2009 
State University of New York (SUNY) researchers - found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting on November 9, 2009 in Philadelphia. (1) Fluoridation is the addition of fluoride chemicals into public water supplies ostensibly to prevent tooth decay. Many groups oppose fluoridation because of its scientifically-documented health risks. (2) Human pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks or just more than 9 months. A baby born before 37 weeks of pregnancy is considered a preterm (or premature) birth. About 12 percent of US pregnancies are preterm and this is one of the top causes of infant death in the US, according to the US National Institutes of Health. (3) |
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Public Information Notice, Southampton, November/December 2008 |
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The information above formed parts of a Public Information Notice that NPWA placed in the Southern Daily Echo on 29 November and 6 December 2008. View the full notice here |
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UK General Election 2010, Political Party Policy on Water Fluoridation |
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National Pure Water Association is non-party-political. We recently contacted UK political parties to request their policy on artificial water fluoridation. The results of our survey follow.
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Southampton/Hampshire: Southampton City Council's vote on fluoride 'would be different', 30 October 2009 |
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This is Hampshire 30 October 2009 Southampton City Council's vote on fluoride 'would be different' by Jon Reeve A TOP Southampton councillor has today said the city council would never have backed fluoridation if it had known children’s dental health had improved. Deputy leader Cllr Royston Smith said new survey results, which show the city’s five-year-olds suffer the same amount of tooth decay as those across England, have dramatically weakened the case for fluoridation. |
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