Revised: 28 May 2015
Consultations
Proposed Amendments to Regulations under the Medicines Act 1981 - Report of analysis of submission and final decisions
Summary
In November 2014, the Ministry of Health released a consultation paper, Consultation on Proposed Amendment to Regulations under the Medicines Act 1981. http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/consultations/medicine-regulations-fluoride-in-drinking-water.asp
The proposed amendment would have the effect of providing legal clarity that the fluoride substances used to treat drinking water are not medicines.
The Ministry received 1387 submissions on the proposal from a wide cross-section of stakeholders. This document summarises feedback on the proposal, and the Government’s final decision on the changes to the regulations under the Medicines Act.
Proposed Amendment to Regulations under the Medicines Act 1981 - Report of the Analysis of Submissions (Adobe PDF document 83 KB, 6 pages)
Appendix 1: Health Effects of Water Fluoridation: A review of the scientific evidence (Available from the Royal Society of New Zealand website)
The amendment came into force on 30 January 2015
Submissions
We have made available all the submissions received in response to the consultation paper. Personal information has been removed from submissions from individuals.
Due to the volume of submissions received these they have been published as PDFs. Each of the following pdf files contains about 50 individual submissions:
- Submission file 1 (PDF, 3.3MB, 134 pages)
- Submission file 2 (PDF, 2.0MB, 108 pages)
- Submission file 3 (PDF, 3.0MB, 128 pages)
- Submission file 4 (PDF, 2.1MB, 108 pages)
- Submissions file 5 (PDF, 2.4MB, 118 pages)
- Submission file 6 (PDF, 2.0MB, 110 pages)
- Submission file 7 (PDF, 2.4MB, 112 pages)
- Submission file 8 (PDF, 2.2MB, 100 pages)
- Submission file 9 (PDF, 2.2MB, 100 pages)
- Submission file 10 (PDF, 2.2MB, 100 pages)
- Submission file 11 (PDF, 2.1MB, 100 pages)
- Submission file 12 (PDF, 2.1MB, 100 pages)
- Submission file 13 (PDF, 2.1MB, 100 pages)
- Submission file 14 (PDF, 4.2MB, 158 pages)
- Submission file 15 (PDF, 2.0MB, 104 pages)
- Submission file 16 (PDF, 1.8MB, 100 pages)
- Submissions file 17 (PDF, 2.1MB, 104 pages)
- Submission file 18 (PDF, 4.0MB, 146 pages)
- Submission file 19 (PDF, 2.4MB, 112 pages)
- Submission file 20 (PDF, 2.4MB, 100 pages)
- Submission file 21 (PDF, 2.7MB, 126 pages)
- Submission file 22 (PDF, 3.2MB, 132 pages)
- Submission file 23 (PDF, 3.7MB, 134 pages)
- Submission file 24 (PDF, 2.8MB, 128 pages)
- Submission file 25 (PDF, 4.4MB, 130 pages)
- Submission file 26 (PDF, 5.7MB, 144 pages)
- Submission file 27 (PDF, 6.0MB, 214 pages)
- Submission file 28 (PDF, 7.8MB, 214 pages)
