Australia - Complaint lodged against Rous Water GM over fluoride

By Darren Coyne

A formal complaint has been lodged against Rous Water’s general manager after he declared a councillor’s notice of motion ‘unlawful’.

Lismore’s Rous Water delegate Cr Vanessa Ekins was planning to move a motion calling for the suspension of fluoride until the National Health and Medical Research Council had completed a review of fluoride concentration levels.

At the moment Rous is putting one milligram per litre, which was the 1970s standard, while world best practise standard now is 0.7 milligrams per litre.

But with a noisy protest taking place outside, general manager Kyme Lavelle declared that he had legal advice saying the motion was unlawful because it ‘hindered a direction from the NSW Department of Health’..........................