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UK: New Minister of Health is the Former Vice President of the British Fluoridation Society!
By Paul Connett
June 17, 2009
As if people in the UK were not having a bad enough time fighting off bogus "public consultations" from unelected Strategic Health Authorities, the news gets worse (see past bulletins on Southampton). Andy Burnham, who was the vice president of the British Fluoridation Society, has been appointed as the new Secretary of State for Health. Immediately, he gave a presentation calling for the whole of Britain to be fluoridated. See b
June 13, Speed up water fluoridation for children's sake, minister urges
We received this short email from Liz Vaughan and Doug Cross this morning. They give more details on Burnham and developments in Southampton:
We have reached a crucial point in the fluoridation issue in Southampton where a legal case regarding the consultation process has been announced and legal aid has been obtained by the person bringing the case against South Central SHA. 72% of the people in Southampton in a poll conducted by the SHA voted against fluoridation yet the SHA voted to impose fluoridation...
The Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham was vice president of the British Fluoridation Society and was instrumental in proposing the inclusion of compulsory fluoridation in the 2003 Water Act. We checked on Friday with the British Fluoridation Society that he was still a vice president, by Friday evening he had resigned this position (vp of BFS) which he appears not to have included in his register of interests...
For more details contact Liz and Doug at emvstudio@tiscali.co.uk or visit their website http://www.ukcaf.org/index.html
Also see Hampshire Against Fluoridation
