The Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, signed a bill this week, making the first state in the nation to prohibit fluoride in drinking water.
According to the bill, a person “cannot add fluoride to the water, or water that will be introduced into a public water system” and a “political subdivision cannot promulgate or enforce an ordinance that requires or allows the addition of water fluoride or water that will be introduced into a public water.”
The law will enter into force on May 7.
In this archive photo of October 19, 2023, the governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, speaks at the monthly press conference of the Governor of PBS Utah at the Eccles Transmission Center in Salt Lake City.
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High quality studies show that fluoride prevents cavities and repairs damage to teeth caused by bacteria in the mouth. Fluoride also replaces the lost minerals of the teeth due to the decomposition of acid, according to the centers for disease control and prevention.
However, influential skeptics such as the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have generated doubts about the benefits of fluoride.
