Calls to ensure community water fluoridation
AMA Queensland has urged Cairns and Gympie Regional Councils to ensure community water fluoridation after members raised concerns about increasing prevalence and severity of oral disease, particularly among children.
AMA Queensland has urged Cairns and Gympie Regional Councils to ensure community water fluoridation after members raised concerns about increasing prevalence and severity of oral disease, particularly among children.
Read the letter to Cairns Regional Council
Read the letter to Gympie Regional Council
On Friday 4 October the Gympie Regional Council responded to our correspondence. The response is summarised below.
No decision has been made to remove fluoride from Gympie’s water supply at this present time.
To appropriately inform councillors and the community, a workshop was held on 14 August 2024 (this can be viewed on Council’s website). At Council’s September Ordinary Meeting, a report was brought to Council recommending Council’s fluoridation program continues. This recommendation was not endorsed, and the Council voted for the CEO to bring back to Council a recommended process detailing the best manner in which to seek the community’s input to the continuity of fluoridation in Council’s drinking water or not. This recommendation will be brought back to Council for decision at a date yet to be determined.
