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Protest letter marks fluoride anniversary
ANTI-FLUORIDE campaigners will hand-deliver a letter of protest to NHS chiefs a year on from the controversial chemical being approved for use in Totton's water supplies.
About 190,000 people could be affected by the plan for Southampton and surrounding areas, agreed in February last year by the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) to combat child tooth decay hi the city.
Because of the layout of the pipes, 8,000 Totton residents may also have the chemical added to their water supply if the plan goes ahead. Opponents are attempting to block it through a pending judicial review and complaints to ombudsmen.
Campaign group Hampshire Against Fluoridation (HAF) said scientists, professors and MPs were among the 100 people who signed the open letter to be handed in at the SHA's headquarters in Newbury on Friday February 26th.
The message marks the one-year anniversary of the SHA's decision to approve Southampton Primary Care Trust's proposal and sums up the developments of the past year.
HAF chairman John Spottiswood, told the 'A&T': "We are concerned that precious NHS funds are being used to force through a scheme that the local community do not want.
"It is madness that the health authorities plan to spend £400,000 of our taxpayers' money to force us to
have something in our water that local people have repeatedly said in surveys — including 72% at the so-called public consultation — that they do not want. This is an abuse of power and a misuse of public funds." The 72% figure was from responses to the consultation but a Mori poll carried out by the SHA showed 38% opposed fluoride against 32% in support.
A 15,000-name petition was gathered by opponents who fear it has implications ranging from cancer to mottling of teeth — which is the only side-effect accepted by the NHS
The SHA said last year that i "remains confident that the decision that has been made by the SHA boar was carried out in accordance wit the relevant legislation laid down b parliament and is in the best interests of the health of local people".
ANTI-FLUORIDE campaigners will hand-deliver a letter of protest to NHS chiefs a year on from the controversial chemical being approved for use in Totton's water supplies.
About 190,000 people could be affected by the plan for Southampton and surrounding areas, agreed in February last year by the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) to combat child tooth decay hi the city.
Because of the layout of the pipes, 8,000 Totton residents may also have the chemical added to their water supply if the plan goes ahead. Opponents are attempting to block it through a pending judicial review and complaints to ombudsmen.
Campaign group Hampshire Against Fluoridation (HAF) said scientists, professors and MPs were among the 100 people who signed the open letter to be handed in at the SHA's headquarters in Newbury on Friday February 26th.
The message marks the one-year anniversary of the SHA's decision to approve Southampton Primary Care Trust's proposal and sums up the developments of the past year.
HAF chairman John Spottiswood, told the 'A&T': "We are concerned that precious NHS funds are being used to force through a scheme that the local community do not want.
"It is madness that the health authorities plan to spend £400,000 of our taxpayers' money to force us to
have something in our water that local people have repeatedly said in surveys — including 72% at the so-called public consultation — that they do not want. This is an abuse of power and a misuse of public funds." The 72% figure was from responses to the consultation but a Mori poll carried out by the SHA showed 38% opposed fluoride against 32% in support.
A 15,000-name petition was gathered by opponents who fear it has implications ranging from cancer to mottling of teeth — which is the only side-effect accepted by the NHS
The SHA said last year that i "remains confident that the decision that has been made by the SHA boar was carried out in accordance wit the relevant legislation laid down b parliament and is in the best interests of the health of local people".
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