Welcome to FANNZ

We are demanding an end to the pollution of our public water supplies.

This site has been created to provide New Zealand-specific information regarding water fluoridation

In New Zealand, all District Health Boards have been instructed to pressure local councils to fluoridate any unfluoridated water supplies, regardless of whether communities want it and regardless of dental health status of the area.

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Hutt City Council infant formula fluoride warning - official FANNZ link

What's new:

  • Scientific Consensus Statement issued Feb 2008: risks to children.
  • Officials claim fluoridation opponents "not reputable" then admit they have "no evidence of this"
  • American Authorites Issue Warning not to make up babies bottles with Fluoridated Water

    •  "I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs.  
    Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long range basis.     Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable."
    - Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd, Past President of the American Medical Association    .     
    "Fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons, with the capacity to modify cell metabolism, changing the permeability of the cell membrane by inhibiting certain enzymes. Sources of fluoride intoxication include drinking water containing 1ppm or more of fluorine."
    -Journal of the American Medical Association, September 18, 1943.
    -How did it suddenly become "safe"? 
     
    Picture of Petone water feature. Part of the deal when the battle was won against fluoridation of the water supply 
    "I would advise against fluoridation.. Side-effects cannot be excluded .. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active and, thus, potentially toxic substances."
    - Dr. Arvid Carlsson, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine (2000)
    "The mutagenic properties of fluorides have been demonstrated by experiments carried out under the strictest scientific conditions. "
    - Quebec Ministerial Inquiry into Fluoridation 1979. 
    "Fluoridation is a naive utopia, without practical effect, and an attack on personal liberty."
    - Minister of Health, Luxembourg, 1976.

    Fountain in Petone that provides pure, untreated, naturally clean artesian water. Hundreds of people come every week from all around Wellington to fill up their water supply. 

      

     Please help end fluoridation in New Zealand by joining Fluoride Action Network or by making an online donation.

    "Most men can seldom accept even the most obvious truth if it would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their own lives."
    - Tolstoy