New Health Data Puts EPA’s Fluoride Toxicity Trial on Ice (1)

Health advocates’ concerns about fluoride in drinking water will have to wait a bit longer, as the EPA and a federal judge in California consider new data about the chemical’s health risks.

U.S. District Court Judge Edward M. Chen in the Northern District of California postponed further proceedings Wednesday at the end of a two week trial over advocates’ concerns that fluoride is a neurotoxin, and that the Environmental Protection Agency should stop the decades-long practice of adding it to drinking water.

The advocacy groups, which include Food and Water Watch, the Fluoride Action Network, and Moms Against Fluoridation, petitioned ...