EPA to Review Science, Limits on Fluoride in Drinking Water (1)

The EPA will review scientific information on potential harms fluoride may cause as it rethinks its standards limiting how much of the mineral can be in drinking water, Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Monday.

Zeldin spoke at a press event in Salt Lake City with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, who has long voiced concerns about adding fluoride to drinking water.

The EPA doesn’t require water fluoridation, but it sets enforceable limits on the amount of naturally occurring fluoride that can be in drinking water and it sets nonenforceable goals to describe ...