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Hampshire councillors vote against fluoride plan

2:23pm Thursday 20th November 2008 in


HAMPSHIRE councillors have voted almost unanimously to oppose plans to add fluoride to water to tackle tooth decay among the young in Southampton.

Only one councillor spoke out in favour of the plan by health chiefs to boost levels of fluoride in tap water delivered two thirds of Southampton residents as well as 36,000 people in Eastleigh, Totton and Netley.

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Others lined up to oppose the proposal by the Southampton Primary Care Trust. They said there was little evidence to show it would reduce health inequalities and were uneasy with the ethics of mass medication.

They agreed with the recommendations of council review panel set up to investigate fluoridation. It found due to a lack of clear evidence on its safety a precaution approach should be taken.

They suggested alternatives be explored to target the children with bad teeth rather than the population as a whole.

Councillors agreed set out their opposition in the strongest terms to health chiefs, local MPs, and the secretary of state for health.

Southampton City Councillors voted to back the fluoridation plans last night.

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Comments(12)

stuartjebbitt says...
2:42pm Thu 20 Nov 08

Commonsense prevails. 45 years of fluoridation in the US doesn't mean it's safe - its a complete red herring. The research to prove that hasn't been done (plus there have been several accidents in the US, including a fatality).
US doctors were still arguing whether cigarettes caused cancer as late as the early 1960s, when the original link was first noticed by a medical student back in 1919!!
If in doubt, leave it out!
good security word - 'flow-kind'

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southy says...
3:24pm Thu 20 Nov 08

oh this going to be very intresting southampton for it hampshire not,yet parts of hampshire council area will be getting the same water has some parts of southampton ie redbridge and totton are on the same water main line

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jrgolding says...
4:31pm Thu 20 Nov 08

Remember that this is the fluoride, and not the toothpaste. That said, it is a first class fluoride, with lavish costumes, brilliant choreography and exquisite dancing. Should delight even those whose fondness for fluoride is limited (like me). No problem following the 'fluoridation' even without being able to buy toothpastes on the way into the theatre.

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jrgolding says...
5:06pm Thu 20 Nov 08

When we are young, we are told fairy tales - about evil witches, mostly older women, and wishes that lead to disaster; about flouride gone wrong and full of dire warnings to not stray from the straight and narrow or else terrible things will happen. These things sink into a young child's neurology and there they stay, and there they sleep, and there they wait until the moment comes when an adult might want to make a wish, but all of sudden and seemingly from nowhere, there's flouridation. There's doubt. There's confusion. Bad things happen when you make a wish ... don't trust that genie in the bottle ... magic leads to no good in the end ... And that's a flouridation in action, old programming that is just the same as brain washing or cult control, but here the cult is the Spanish Inquisition, reaching across the ages through the medium of fairy tales and affecting people in their millions, still here and right now. Safe.

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goard says...
5:22pm Thu 20 Nov 08

It does not matter what you all feel about fluoride - I know, deep in my mind, that introduction of fluoride into my water is too much for me to accept. Whatever the writings on the subject I KNOW it is a very insiduous poison, however represented, a poisonous substance to some. I am afraid of it, many thousands are afraid of it - why oh why are the powers that be asserting their authority.

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southampton999 says...
8:13pm Thu 20 Nov 08

Stuartjebbit
1 death in 40 years in a country of 400 million!!!!! I almost died due to an infection in my tooth, 10 minutes from being intubated and at risk of meningitis.Are you serious????
Have you seen American teeth, they look fantastic and I can bet that their rates of tooth decay are far lower than ours, thus saving money on teh NHS budgets

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giz894 says...
9:10pm Thu 20 Nov 08

southampton999 wrote:
Stuartjebbit
1 death in 40 years in a country of 400 million!!!!! I almost died due to an infection in my tooth, 10 minutes from being intubated and at risk of meningitis.Are you serious????
Have you seen American teeth, they look fantastic and I can bet that their rates of tooth decay are far lower than ours, thus saving money on teh NHS budgets
I would ask you to go to naturalnews.com & type flouride into the search bar, there you will find a report by a world renowned toxicologist. maybe after reading it
you will have a broader sense of the flouride debate.

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Vonnie says...
8:18am Fri 21 Nov 08

southy wrote:
oh this going to be very intresting southampton for it hampshire not,yet parts of hampshire council area will be getting the same water has some parts of southampton ie redbridge and totton are on the same water main line
Unfortunately, although some councils have come out against fluoridisation, the decision as to whether it happens or not will not be made by them. Southampton Primary Care trust are the ones pulling the strings. Councils can only put forward their views.

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Westread says...
9:25am Fri 21 Nov 08

I always wonder when I read these fluoride stories if the authorities would spend money on getting rid of the stuff where it occurs naturally in water?

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stuartjebbitt says...
10:34am Fri 21 Nov 08

Westread wrote:
I always wonder when I read these fluoride stories if the authorities would spend money on getting rid of the stuff where it occurs naturally in water?
They DO. In India they have plants which take the fluoride OUT of the water. They wouldn't spend money on this if they thought it was harmless

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Frankacne says...
9:23pm Sat 22 Nov 08

Well done Hampshire for an excellent and well researched report. If you drink fluoride long enough you elect idiots like Bush. It was bad enough here with Blair and of course he followed Bush slavishly even down to fluoridation. Dont pay for fluoride, and bill the water companies for all the bottled waster you will have to buy and for the reverse osmosis filters you will need. Those few on these boards who really want fluoride can get it cheaply enough, they can have mine for free just for a start but anyone who tries to force me to drink useless poison is likely to get a slapping.

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baz1 says...
2:22pm Sun 23 Nov 08

Well done Hamps councillors who obviously have reasonable intelligence unlike their trendy P.C
obsessed Southmpton counterparts.

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