Too Little Data to Back Up Fluoride Toxicity Claims, EPA Argues

There isn’t enough reliable data to determine whether fluoride in drinking water poses neurological health risks, the EPA argued before a federal judge in California on Monday.

Health advocacy groups, including Food and Water Watch, the Fluoride Action Network, and Moms Against Fluoridation, argue fluoride is a neurotoxin. They unsuccessfully petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency in 2016 to stop the decades-long practice of adding it to drinking water and followed up with a lawsuit that has risen to a trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Attorney John Do, arguing for the EPA, said there’s ...