RFK Jr. Says Trump Would Push to End Adding Fluoride to Drinking Water

Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that former President Donald Trump will seek to end public water fluoridation if he’s elected president.

“On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water,” Kennedy, who Trump said will be part of his administration if he wins on Nov. 5, wrote in a post on social media platform X over the weekend.

Kennedy then made reference to a landmark September ruling from a U.S. district judge who directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address concerns about whether fluoridation can lead to lower IQ in children. The American Dental Association and related medical groups said they disagreed with the ruling and repeated their recommendation that fluoride be added to drinking water supplies.

“Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease,” Kennedy wrote on X.

Since 1945, U.S. municipalities have added fluoride to tap water in a bid to combat tooth decay. The U.S. Public Health Service recommends that water systems have a fluoride level of 0.7 milligrams per liter.

A report issued early this year by the National Toxicology Program, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, found that high levels of fluoride in other countries could be tied to lower IQ levels in children. The agency found that drinking water levels with 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter could pose a problem in children.

For the past five decades, the recommended upper range has been 1.2 milligrams per liter. The World Health Organization has set a safe limit for fluoride in drinking water of 1.5 milligrams.

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