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UK Against Fluoridation

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Australia - Motion to stop fluoride

Ballina fluoride rethink bid

27.06.2006
By MARY MANN
EVERY day Councillor David Wright brushes his teeth with fluoride toothpaste — just like thousands of other Ballina Shire residents. But the prospect of adding fluoride to the water is enough to make him grit his teeth. The councillor, together with John Felsch and Margaret Howes, has launched a rescission motion asking that the council reconsider its support for adding fluoride to the shire’s water. If successful, the motion has the potential to keep fluoride out of the shire’s water. It would also put pressure on Rous Water to come up with a method of adding the fluoride at individual reservoirs, instead of adding it at the central treat- ment plant where it would go into all of the various local councils’ water supplies.

Ballina mayor and chair of Rous Water, Phil Silver, said he understood it was achievable, he just wasn’t sure at this stage how it would be achieved.
"The fact that the rescission motion has been launched means the community has been given a second chance to make their decisions about fluoridation known," he said. Councillor Wright said he wasn’t against fluoride itself, just putting it in the water. "People should have the right to make their own decision," he said. "And if it was so important that it was in our water, the State or Federal government would make the decision to add it. It wouldn’t be left to local governments." Cr Felsch says people who don’t need fluoride shouldn’t be forced to take it.
"It’s all very well for mayor Phil Silver and others to say ‘put it in the water’, but people like me who have rainwater tanks aren’t going to drink it," he said. "Why are we having all these chemicals put into our beautiful water? "When you look at the history of people who have had fluoridated water, some of them have terribly mottled teeth. I have never seen proven facts that support the benefits of adding fluoride to the water."
General manager John Christopherson said the council would meet to discuss the motion and then it would go to full council within the next month.
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