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City council calls for fluoride referendum
19th Mar 2010
Southampton City councillors have voted to call on the South Central Strategic Health Authority to hold a referendum on its move to add fluoride in water.
Health bosses agreed the plans for the city's water in February last year despite 72% of 10,000 respondents in a public consultation opposing the move.
The move is the subject of a judicial review after a resident launched a private legal challenge last June.
But the health authority maintains mass fluoridation is a ‘safe way' of tackling tooth decay.
In January, the anti-fluoride lobby called for fluoride to be licensed as a medicine in another bid to ban it from their tap water.
Campaigners lodged the complaint while they await the outcome of a judicial review on adding fluoride to tap water in Southampton, prompted by a resident who was against the plans by the city's health bosses.
The fluoridation move itself followed a public consultation in 2008 in which more than 10,000 people had their say.
Resident Geraldine Milner is behind the legal challenge against the decision by the SCSHA and the judicial review will be based on government policy, which states most residents need to be in favour of the move.
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