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Breaking: Fluoride in Water Poses ‘Unreasonable Risk’ to Children, Federal Judge Rules

Ruling represents devastating blow to the EPA, CDC and ADA, who for decades staked their reputations on the safety of water fluoridation as one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.

Judge rules EPA must address fluoride's health risks in the water supply and take regulatory measures to mitigate them.

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A federal judge ruled Tuesday that fluoride in the drinking water poses an “unreasonable risk” of reduced IQ in children.

In a massive vindication to Infowars sounding the alarm about the dangers of fluoride for decades, Judge Edward Chen of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California wrote in an 80-page landmark decision that the current “optimal” levels of water fluoridation exposure may damage human health.

Over 200 million Americans currently drink water treated with fluoride at the “optimal” level of 0.7 milligrams per liter (mg/L). 

“In all, there is substantial and scientifically credible evidence establishing that fluoride poses a risk to human health; it is associated with a reduction in the IQ of children and is hazardous at dosages that are far too close to fluoride levels in the drinking water of the United States,” Chen wrote.

“EPA’s own expert agrees that fluoride is hazardous at some level,” he added, citing a report by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and National Toxicology Program (NTP) which “concluded that fluoride is indeed associated with reduced IQ in children, at least at exposure levels at or above 1.5 mg/L.”

The ruling concludes a historic 7-year lawsuit brought against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by environmental and consumer advocacy organizations like the Fluoride Action Network, Moms Against Fluoridation and Food & Water Watch, along with individual parents and children.

Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), as amended by Congress in 2016, U.S. citizens can petition the EPA to evaluate whether a chemical presents an unreasonable risk to public health and should be regulated.

The ruling represents a devastating blow to the EPA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and American Dental Association (ADA), who for decades staked their reputations on the safety of water fluoridation as one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.

For over 70 years U.S. public health officials have pushed water fluoridation as a key strategy for maintaining and improving dental health.

Rick North, board member of Fluoride Action Network, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said, “What’s false is the CDC claiming that fluoridation is one of the 10 greatest health achievements of the 20th century. What’s true is that ending fluoridation will be one of the 10 greatest health achievements of the 21st century.”

In fact, these regulatory agencies ignored mounting compelling evidence showing fluoride’s neurotoxic risks, and even worked to suppress the research and discredit the scientists carrying it out.

The judge wrote, “One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk,” adding they must take some sort of regulatory action.

“The judge did what EPA has long refused to do, and that is to apply the EPA standard risk assessment framework to fluoride,” said Michael Connett, attorney for the plaintiffs.

“In so doing, the court has shown that the widespread exposure to fluoride that we now have in the United States is unreasonably and precariously close to the levels that we know cause harm.”

Judge Chen also shot down the EPA’s argument that the exact level at which fluoride is hazardous is too unclear for the agency to determine whether the chemical presents an unreasonable risk, concluding it was “not persuasive.”

“Under even the most conservative estimates of this level, there is not enough of a margin between the accepted hazard level and the actual human exposure levels to find that fluoride is safe,” Chen wrote.

“Simply put, the risk to health at exposure levels in United States drinking water is sufficiently high to trigger regulatory response by the EPA under Amended TSCA,” he added.

Experts noted that the ruling means the EPA will have to go beyond simply ending water fluoridation.

“EPA will have to consider what to do in the southwestern parts of the country where the fluoride content of groundwater is too high due to minerals in the soil containing fluoride,” said Harvard environmental health professor Philippe Grandjean, M.D., Ph.D. “And then there is the question about ingestion of toothpaste.”

Once again, Infowars has demonstrated it’s years ahead of the curve and truly lives up to its motto, “Tomorrow’s News Today.”

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