2018 - Fluoride - Letter to NZ Councils - 22 January 2018
22 January 2018
To all New Zealand Councils and Councillors cc District Health Boards and Public Health Services, Other interested recipients
Formulating your Long Term Plans
PSGR is a not-for-profit, non-aligned charitable trust whose members are mainly science, medical and machinery-of-government professionals. Since the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification made recommendations “to proceed with caution”, PSGR has maintained a watching brief, in particular on scientific developments in genetic engineering (also referred to as genetic modification), as well as other public interest issues involving health and environmental safety where we can offer expert opinion on lawful and authoritative public policy information.
Please consider this information and recommendations as a submission by PSGR to your planning development and consultation 2018. PSGR will speak to this submission.
In forming responsible and effective governance
The responsibility to ratepayers and the wider community requires informed decision-making, including consideration of new information and peer-reviewed science that may challenge perceived wisdom, or current policy assumptions. In many situations an intergenerational perspective is required.
In this submission regarding your Long Term Plans we ask Council to consider the following issues to be addressed:
- Providing drinking water free of fluoridation;
- Protection against contamination of land and waterways by genetically engineered organisms;
- Urgent reduction of public, crop and animal exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides.
Appropriate policy and planning responses to these issues are also provided in PSGR’s recommendations at the end of each following section.