RFK Jr. plans to direct CDC to stop recommending fluoride in water

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday helium plans to nonstop the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to halt recommending the summation of fluoride successful water, portion besides putting unneurotic a task unit to instrumentality connected the issue.

The Associated Press reported that Kennedy told the work astir his plans aft attending a quality league with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin.

The EPA announced Monday that it is reviewing caller subject connected the imaginable wellness risks of fluoride successful drinking water, arsenic the bureau has the authorization to acceptable maximum levels of fluoride successful nationalist h2o systems.

While Kennedy does not person the authorization to archer communities to halt adding fluoride to h2o systems, helium tin nonstop the CDC to halt recommending it, portion besides moving with the EPA to acceptable allowable levels.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said helium plans to archer the CDC to halt recommending the fluoridation of drinking water. (Jason Mendez/Getty Images)

Kennedy oversees the CDC, though the agency’s recommendations are conscionable that, and are not mandatory.

Utah became the archetypal authorities past period to prohibition the summation of fluoride successful nationalist drinking water, contempt absorption from dentists and nationalist wellness organizations that warned the enactment would pb to aesculapian issues among low-income communities.

Still, Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, signed the authorities that prohibits cities and communities from deciding whether to adhd fluoride – a mineral that prevents cavities – to h2o systems managed by those cities and communities.

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A h2o inferior foreman astatine a works wherever fluoride is added to the drinking h2o successful Healdsburg, California. (Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

By May 7, each h2o systems crossed the authorities volition beryllium required to person fluoridation systems unopen down.

Kennedy told the AP helium was arrogant of Utah for being the archetypal authorities to prohibition fluoride, adding that helium hopes different states volition travel suit.

More than 200 cardinal radical successful the U.S. person fluoridated water done assemblage h2o systems, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the archetypal metropolis to instrumentality water fluoridation in 1945, according to the CDC.

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A wide presumption of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) office successful Atlanta. (REUTERS/Tami Chappell)

"Community h2o fluoridation benefits each members of a assemblage by preventing cavities, reducing oral wellness disparities, and redeeming wealth for everyone," the CDC's website states.

Kennedy and supporters of his inaugural to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) person been outspoken astir banning fluoride successful drinking water.

"Fluoride is an concern discarded associated with arthritis, bony fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders and thyroid disease," Kennedy wrote connected X successful November.

A survey published successful Environmental Health Perspectives connected July 20, 2012, conducted by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, "found beardown indications that fluoride whitethorn adversely impact cognitive improvement successful children."

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A survey published successful Environmental Health Perspectives connected July 20, 2012, conducted by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, "found beardown indications that fluoride whitethorn adversely impact cognitive improvement successful children."

The CDC does not mandate assemblage h2o fluoridation, but it named fluoridation of drinking h2o 1 of 10 large nationalist wellness interventions of the 20th century, citing the melodramatic diminution of cavities.

Fox News Digital’s Ashley J. DiMella and The Associated Press contributed to this report.