- Utah was the first state in the nation to ban fluoride in public drinking water systems. Other states follow lawsuit.
- Fluoride is a big issue for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new Minister of Health and Human Services who recently talked to Utah about why they distrust the substance.
- Fluoride, however, is still available without a prescription by a pharmacist. A Utah company also offers a fluoride free treatment later this month at a Salt Lake Community Center.
Utah made national history when it became the first state in the nation to prohibit the introduction of fluoride into public drinking water systems.
This ban on Utah is officially held on Wednesday.
Other states, including Florida, seem to follow the lead that Utah, although a controversial issue.
A bill passed to Florida to ban fluoride in drinking water and was signed by Governor Ron Desantis on Tuesday.
Other states – including Kentucky and Nebraska, also examine the elimination of fluorid water under the sewer forever.
The American Dental Union and Disease Control Centers A prevention say that fluoride was one of the most dramatic achievements of public health that help prevent dental decomposition. Health experts report numerous studies excluding the benefits, but there are other scientific information that calls this conclusion.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new US Minister of Health and Human Services, is a supporter to remove fluoride from drinking water.
During a visit to Utah, Kennedy said he decided his mind about fluoride after reading the latest science that shows that the add -on in drinking water is superfluous.
“He has no business to be there,” he told Salt Lake City last month.
While fluoride is a natural mineral, the form in which it is artificially inserted into drinking water is completely different.
The concentrate in its insoluble form is classified as a dangerous, poisonous material that, while containing fluoride, also contains male, lead, copper, manganese, iron and aluminum. It is a by -product from phosphate mining tasks.
Why the hustle and bustle for fluoride?
An American judge in California ruled last September that fluoride at some level is an unacceptable danger to young children and lactating mothers.
“There is a slight dispute in this suit as to whether fluoride endangers human health.
“The National Toxicology Program of the United States (” NTP “) – The Federal Service, which is considered to be toxicity experts – have systematically reviewed all available bibliographies near the publication era, taking into account whether fluoride is cognitive, reviewing 72 human beings.
Maybe in this slogan, Rep. Stephanie Gricius, R-Eagle Mountain, ran HB81 Earlier this year to prohibit the introduction of the substance into public drinking water systems. The bill passed and was signed by law by Governor Spencer Cox.
While medical professionals were strongly opposed, Gricius had the support of water areas that said there were millions of dollars invested to provide power supply, while workers were exposed to dangerous material.
The law in Utah is valid on Wednesday. Water areas have called for the introduction of fluoride in recent weeks to comply with the new law.
Scott Paxman, General Manager of the Weber Water Water Maintenance area, said the material should be rejected in an area of dangerous chemical waste in Utah, which only adds to the cost.
Sandy
Utah may have been led to investigate the issue and the final ban, following an event that happened in Sandy in 2019.
The inhabitants there presented the effects of excessive fluoride after a malfunction of one of the city’s feeders who were sick of hundreds of people.
The test on certain samples showed fluoride levels at 40 times the national boundary. Ten days after the first complaint by a resident and after the state he was unable to confirm that the results of the lead and copper tests had returned to the normal, the part of the Utah’s drinking water and the governor’s office required the city to issue a “do not drink” order.
The event left the organizations, including the Health Department of Salt Lake County, the city of Sandy City itself and even the state service that oversees regulations to provide safe drinking water.
How to get fluoride
During an emotional hearing about this fluoride, the latest session, Senator Lincoln Fillmore, R-South Jordan, was blunt in the bill critics.
“My answer to them would be that there is a difference between the pharmaceutical fluoride added to the water and the fluoride of the element of course because it exists in our world, all medicines come prescribed in a dose.” This is not possible when what you are doing is adding a medicine to a global good.
But the law passed by Utah does not prohibit fluoride. While prohibiting the introduction of substance into drinking water, it released the opportunity to get fluoride without a prescription from a local pharmacist.
A southern Jordan company called Overpowering products It will donate about 70,000 free fluoride treatments to residents of Utah in need.
The company works with local dental and healthy schools to provide treatments throughout the State. These treatments will be available on May 17 from 10am. by 4 pm at the Rose Park Community Resource Fair. The service will be provided by students in the Salt Lake Community College hygiene program.
There is no need for an appointment.
“Care and return are a cornerstone of Ultradent’s culture, we hope that families will come to this upcoming event and benefit from the free therapies of the varnish to help protect their teeth now that a vital resource is obtained,”
Jeffs said that the company’s efforts are to protect dental health and many other free public promotion events are scheduled for later this year.