"Public health has a history of holding on too long. We minimized the risks of lead poisoning. Now we are doing the same with fluoride.
The evidence has shifted. The benefits of drinking fluoridated water are smaller than we once believed. The risks—especially to the developing brain—are now impossible to ignore.
Anyone who insists otherwise either hasn’t read the new research or chooses not to."
-- Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH, preventive medicine physician and professor at
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
"The science clearly indicates that fluoridation should be ended as soon as possible"
-- Toxicologist Steven Gilbert, PhD, author of A Small Dose of Toxicology and director of the Institute of
Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders
On September 24, 2024 a US Federal court ruled in favour of Food and Water Watch, et al. in their proceedings against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
After 7 years of legal action against the EPA over the risk posed to the developing brain of water fluoridation, the United States District Court of the Northern District of California deemed fluoridation an "unreasonable risk" to the health of children. Judge Chen wrote:
the Court finds Plaintiffs have met their burden in establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, that community water fluoridation at 0.7 mg/L presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health under Amended TSCA and that the EPA is thus obliged to take regulatory action in response.