Scientific News What The Evidence Says About Fluoride In Drinking Water

The Final Word On Fluoride In Your Water: New US Study On 27,000 People Found Fluoride Boosts Brain Instead of Harming IQ

For years, critics have used fear of “IQ loss” to fuel campaigns against community water fluoridation. Public officials, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have called fluoride an “industrial waste”. Read More

Fluoride in drinking water does not negatively affect cognitive ability — and may actually provide benefit, study finds

(CNN) — The longstanding public health practice of adding fluoride to community drinking water is facing heavy scrutiny in the United States over questions about whether the benefits outweigh the ... Read More

SC politicians advocate ban on cavity-fighting fluoride in public drinking water

Fluoride is credited with improving the dental health of children and adults for decades, but some South Carolina legislators are suspicious and want to ban it ... Read More

Fluoride in drinking water poses enough risk to merit new EPA action, judge says

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride in drinking water because high levels could pose a risk to the intellectual development of children. U ... Read More

Fluoride in the water? It depends who's writing

It is a misrepresentation of the facts (“City stops adding fluoride to water,” Oct. 23) to claim the use of fluoride in drinking water “remains an area of … scientific debate.” It does not. It has ... Read More

Arizona lawmaker wants to ban fluoride in drinking water

A state lawmaker wants to ban fluoride in drinking water, but several cities use it. Sen. Janae Shamp (R-Surprise) introduced legislation this week to ban fluoride in public drinking water. Read More

EPA Standard for Fluoride in Drinking Water Is Not Protective; Tooth Enamel Loss, Bone Fractures of Concern at High Levels

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's standard for the maximum amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water -- 4 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water -- does not protect ... Read More

RFK Jr. says he plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention soon to stop recommending fluoridation in communities nationwide. Kennedy ... Read More