Florida moves to ban fluoride from public drinking water: NPR

A legislative template that forbids Fluoride from Florida’s public drinking water goes to the governor’s desk.

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Florida is ready to ban Fluoride from his drinking water According to new legislation, which was passed by the legislators.

The draft law now goes to the desk of the Republican governor Ron Desantis for a signature. If it were signed, Florida would be the second state After Utah Ban fluoride from its public water supply.

Desantis called Water fluoride “Forced medication.” His office did not comment on whether Desantis would sign the measure.

The water authorities in states in the United States have added a small amount of fluoride in water supply for decades, and experts say that they have prevented millions of cavities.

The Florida representative of the Republican passed the measure on Tuesday as part of a broader agricultural account. The Senate passed the ban in early April. Without expressly mentioning the fluoride, the legislation would prohibit the urban authorities of adding “water quality additives” to the water supply.

Desantis’ administration has already recommended The ban on fluoride with the general surgeon Joseph Ladapo names water fluoride “Misconduct of public health“As Wusf reported.

Before Trump won the choice, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now secretary for health and human services, wrote fluoride incorrectly as “industrial waste” and said the white house would recommend banning the mineral from drinking water.

Kennedy, who subscribed to a number of de -diverse disruptions in relation to health and well -being, also blamed the fluoridation of water for a variety of health problems, including arthritis, broken bones, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurological developmental disorders and thyroid diseases.

Dentists and other health experts agree that the controlled exposure to the mineral is decisive to prevent teeth waste and has minimal risks to negative side effects.

In addition to breakthroughs such as vaccines and seat belts, the fluoridation of the public water is one of the Greatest innovations for public health of the 20th century, according to the centers for the control and prevention of diseases (CDC).

At the beginning of April, the HHS announced this under Kennedy’s instructions It had directed The CDC to reconstruct an independent body of 15 health experts to examine the role that fluoride plays in water sources and whether it can have a negative impact on public health.

The use of fluoride in water was discussed elsewhere.

Calgary, Canada, voted in 2011 for the ban on the mineral from his water supply, but after a remarkable Dental cave tip In the children of the city, the legislator last year his decision undone.

Florida’s ban would come into force on July 1st.