UK - Southampton - Daily Echo

______________ Monday May 4, 2009
Campaigners continue fight against water fluoridation
ACTION group Hampshire Against Fluoridation is hold a third public meeting this Saturday. Campaigners will be at Well Centre, part of Eastleigh Baptist Church in Well Place, Eastleigh, from midway until 6pm.Members of the public will be invited to sign the group's petition against plans to a signatures that they have already collected
they want to present to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Caroline Place said that local councillors and MPs had been invited to the meeting.
She said: "We are holding other meeting to give the public a voice as they feel they have not been listened to."
Health chiefs plan to add fluoride to the tap water of almost 200,000 Hampshire residents after South Central Strategic Health Authority approved it as a way to improve children's teeth.
Two-thirds of Southampton will be affected as well as areas of Eastleigh. Totton, Netley and Rownhams.
Anti-fluoridation protesters are continuing to collect donations for their fighting fund to launch a potential legal challenge to the SHA decision.
The SHA insists the consultation was carried out fairly and that fluoridation will benefit generations of children.