The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention division charged with promoting water fluoridation was axed this week, resurfacing questions on the Trump administration’s stance on adding tooth-strengthening yet toxic chemicals to tap water systems.
Some answers are likely to come next week, when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to visit Utah, Arizona and New Mexico as part of a “tour to celebrate” initiatives spawned from Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement, including state laws that “ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water,” an HHS news release says.
An EPA spokesperson confirmed Administrator Lee Zeldin is scheduled to join Kennedy for a Monday news conference in Utah, which became the first state to ban community water fluoridation last month.
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