NPWA

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.

Four representatives of NPWA’s Executive Committee joined Hampshire Against Fluoridation's demonstration at South Central Strategic Health Authority's offices in Newbury to present the Authority with the Open Letter below.

The letter was backed by more than 170 signatories including Members of the House of Lords, MPs of all parties, councillors, scientists and dental and other professionals and these are listed below the Open Letter.

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)

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.