EPA Must Reduce Fluoride’s IQ Risks to Children, Court Says (1)

Adding fluoride to drinking water poses such a sufficient risk of lowering children’s IQ that the EPA must respond in some regulatory way, a federal court has ruled.

“The court finds there is an unreasonable risk of such injury, a risk sufficient to require the EPA to engage with a regulatory response,” ruled senior Judge Edward M. Chen with the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday.

Some kind of Environmental Protection Agency response is needed, because adding 0.7 milligrams per liter (mg/L) of fluoride to drinking water—the level presently recommended by US health agencies—is too ...