WATER FLUORIDATION NEWS - NEW ZEALAND - Fluoride critics slam law rush Stuff - 4/1/15 Anti-fluoride campaigners are alarmed at a sinister move to slide through a law change over Christmas, validating councils power to add the chemical to drinking water. Medsafe opened public submissions on November 25 on a law change to stop fluoride being legally defined as a medicine - meaning it can be added to municipal water supplies. The deadline for submissions is this Friday. The law change comes after a High Court justice said the law needed clarification, as he ruled against an appeal by anti-fluoride groups to stop fluoride being added to water. David Sloan, the director of anti-fluoridation lobby group New Health New Zealand, said the Ministry of Health was rushing the law change. But the organisations request to extend the timeframe for submissions outside of the Christmas and New Year period was dismissed by the Ministry of Health. Were a voluntary organisation and all have jobs, so to expect us to put together a good submission in that timeframe is terrible, Sloan said. This is kind of a sinister move by the Ministry of Health. The change comes after New Health New Zealand sought a judicial review against the Attorney General, arguing that fluoride was subject to the Medicines Act. stuff.co.nz/national/health/64640651/fluoride-critics-slam-law-rush
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 06:15:19 +0000
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