NEWS RELEASE
September 27, 2024
After seven years of pursuing legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the risk posed to children’s developing brains by the practice of water fluoridation, the United States District Court of the Northern District of California, Judge Edward Chen presiding, has just ruled in favor of the Fluoride Action Network and the plaintiffs in this precedent-setting court case.
The court has found that fluoridation could pose an “unreasonable risk” to the health of children, and the EPA must regulate it as such. This was no whimsical case. This was a hard-fought, long researched, and in-depth presentation of undisputable facts and evidence that could not be ignored.
According to an Associated Press (AP) release, Ashley Malin, a University of Florida researcher who has studied the effect of higher fluoride levels in pregnant women, called it “the most historic ruling in the U.S. fluoridation debate that we’ve ever seen.”
Back in 2001, the CDC (Center for Disease Control) extolled the benefits of fluoride for dental care. However, this view has long been challenged – especially by the National Health Federation (NHF) – and often with solid facts demonstrating a contrary position. Fluoridated water acts in ways far beyond its supposedly beneficial effects on dental carries. It is considered a toxic chemical by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; and there are required warnings, especially on children’s toothpaste, to go to a poison control center if more than a pea size of the toothpaste gets eaten in case of poisoning.
The National Health Federation was one of the first to fight fluoridation of public water supplies and successfully convinced many communities across America to ban the practice back in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Moreover, over the decades, the NHF has published numerous articles describing the bodily and environmental harm and illegal use of medical intervention by toxic water fluoridation. Later, in 1996, NHF Board of Governors member Dr. Richard Kunin wrote and published an article describing the dangers of fluoridation. And, in 2012, NHF-Ireland launched a boycott of that country’s widespread fluoridation practices that had resulted in excessive fluoride in such consumables as Guiness beer and Irish butter, among many others.
Now, per court order, the EPA must actually engage in rule-making to limit the toxic exposure of Americans to this poison. We all look forward to the EPA doing its job as swiftly as possible and without any conflicts of interest.
The NHF congratulates Michael Connett and his father Paul Connett, and the Fluoride Action Network and its staff for their determination and efforts in pursuing to victory this landmark case on water fluoridation.
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