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NPWA News and Press Releases 2002

12 May 2002
The great red mud experiment that went radioactive Three news items from Australia which demonstrate the way toxic pollutants become 'soil conditioners' and, so, avoid regulation.
12 May 2002
Dentists Show Fluoridation a Failure Unintentially, studies by dentist/researchers indicate fluoridation fails to reduce tooth decay, especially in the poor. Also, fluoride, above that found in toothpaste, confers no added benefit to the majority
NEW YORK, May 7 /PRNewswire/
1 May 2002
Parents say no to fluoride Bradford parents have voted overwhelmingly against adding fluoride to school milk.
Telegraph and Argus, 30 April 2002
30 April 2002
Home News (Election 2002): Greens will focus on quality of life and clean politics. Priorities would include a ban on waste disposal by incineration and fluoridation of water.
Irish Times, April 26, 2002
25 April 2002
2.8 million denied EU citizen rights by Irish government.
Environment group VOICE has accused the government of denying the EU right to a safe drinking water to almost 3 million people in Ireland. (Press release, Dublin, 18th April 2002).
21 April 2002
Can water fluoridation survive this bombshell? US Surgeon General's Oral Health Survey of the US indicates that as the percentage of people drinking fluoridated water in a state increases so does the rate of oral cancer. "more men died of oral and throat cancers in the states where more communities were fluoridated".
IFIN BULLETIN #542
14 April 2002
A spin off from Buttermere or a win for NPWA and common sense? Allerdale Borough Council recommends that their support for fluoridation be reversed.
Keswick Reminder, 12 April 2002.
14 April 2002
Tap water safe for use in babies' bottles PARENTS who prepare their babies' bottles with tap water are not putting their health at risk, according to a controversial report which Health Minister Micheál Martin is due to receive today.
IRISH EXAMINER , 12 April 2002
14 April 2002
Letter from Sweden Swedish Nobel prize-winner against water fluoridation Supplement.
Australian Fluoridation News , Jan. 2001
21 March 2002
The "Battle for Buttermere" is over Residents of the tiny, beautiful lakeland village of Buttermere can sleep soundly in their beds tonight, knowing that their water supply is safe. NPWA Press Release
20 March, 2002
Water fluoridation: The covert shift of responsibility/liability and its implications for Councils Government ministers are looking at fluoridation, but have said that fluoridation schemes will only be implemented with "strong local agreement." By this, they mean the agreement of Councils. However, they have given no indication that they will increase the indemnity to water companies. So, where does this leave Councils who decide in favour of fluoridation? Councils in fluoridated areas lost control of water fluoridation and how they could be left holding the baby in the future.
16 March 2002
George Glasser's letter to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry commenting on the errors, omissions and misrepresentations in the 2001 Draft Toxicological Profile for Fluorides.
16 March 2002
NPWA submission to the Allerdale borough council task group on water fluoridation (in Microsoft Word format).
16 March 2002
Tap water in infant formula is a danger to children Irish tap water has an average concentration of fluoride six times higher than the upper limit as recommended by the BMA for infants. How can it be safe for making babies' formula feed?
Irish Medical News. 4 March 2002.
27 Feb 2002
WHAT CONSTITUTES UNINFORMED CONSENT? Dentist Tony Lees presents the case against glass ionomers
27 Feb 2002
Study links fluoride to bone cancer The following item appears on the front page of "Dentistry", 7th February, 2002.
27 Feb 2002
Green Party bill to end fluoridation is non-negotiable, says Gormley Irish Independent. 8/2/02
27 Feb 2002
Greens demand ban on fluoride in water The Irish Times. February 6, 2002
27 Feb 2002
Fluoride renegades accuse minister of poisoning children Irish Examiner. February 6, 2002 AN anti-fluoridation group is to blitz Health Minister Micheál Martin's constituency with leaflets accusing him of poisoning children through water fluoridation.
9 January 2002
Probe urged into fluoride in water link to cancer 40% more people in the Republic, which is fluoridated, contract osteosarcoma than in the North, which is not fluoridated
The Irish Examiner , 09 Jan 2002
6 January 2002
Artificial fluoridation of public water supplies The Commissioners of Pinellas County, Florida, are currently considering fluoridation of the water supply. This hard-hitting letter was sent to the St Petersburg Times by John Remington Graham, a Minnesota
04 Sept., 2002 AFTER JOHANNESBURG: Your water - or your life? So, who would knowingly promote or endorse the use of any chemicals that are not related to water purification treatments that are contaminated with neurotoxicants and/or cancer-causing agents?
12 August, 2002
Exposed!
'Expert' scientist who manipulated results. George Glasser's Public Comment in response to the US NIEHS Review of the Toxicology of fluorosilicates.
29 July 2002
Belgium bans fluoride tablets, chewing gum Translated from the original Belgian article in HUMO; including interview with the Federal Minister of Public Health Magda Aelvoet.
8 July 2002
Irish Medical News The Professor, the Health Board and half a million smackeroos! Dr Andrew Rynne on how to milk the grant system.
16 June 2002
Salt Lake City Tribune: Editorial "Water fluoridation has turned a tremendous hazardous-waste disposal expense into a multimillion-dollar profit for fertilizer manufacturers."
5 June 2002
CONTRA COSTA TIMES, California Fluoride suspected as 23 in Dublin, California, grow ill. Water officials believe overdose of chemical may have been caused by malfunctioning pump.

31 May 2002
Bolton Evening News Fluoridation Feature - Argument FOR fluoridation by Professor of Public Health Dentistry. Argument AGAINST argument by NPWA Campaign Director.

21 May 2002
Bolton Evening News reports "Fluoride given the brush off". Bolton is the only town in the UK to have had a referendum on fluoridation, back in 1968. Boltonians voted NO, by 82%.
21 May 2002
USEPA - Official Request for Assistance! In a surprising development, the USEPA calls for scientific assistance to find out how fluoridation chemicals form compounds in tap water - after 50 years!.
12 May 2002
Expert review of Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death? Professor Albert Burgstahler, world-renowned expert on fluoride research and editor of the journal, Fluoride, reviews the latest fluoride book. ". . . an impressive array of referenced information of interest to anyone who engages in research concerning important biomedical and environmental aspects of fluoride and fluoridation."

Summer 2003

Fluoridistas seduce gullible politicians and public health officials into more lies and spin.



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