US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy JR said that the communities suspend the floridizing water and the government appointed government gears to help them take place.
Kennedy said this week this week planned to explain the centers to monitor and prevent diseases in order to recommend fluorization in societies. And he said he gathered the power of health experts to learn the issue and give new recommendations.
At the same time, the United States Environmental Protection Agency will consider new scientific information about the potential health risks of fluoride in drinking water. EPA sets the maximum level permitted in social water systems.
The opposite of the fluoride policy is a look that has become an action element under the leadership of President Donald Trump.
Benefits of fluorid
Fluoride reinforces teeth and changes the gaps by loss of minerals and losses during the tears due to CDC. In 1950, federal officials approved water floridation to prevent dental decay and determined the instructions for how much to be added in 1962.
Fluoride can come from a number of sources, but drinking water is basic for Americans, researchers say. According to CDC, two-thirds of the US population buys florida drinking water.
Adding a low level of low fluoride in drinking water was considered one of the largest public health achievements in the long century. The American Dental Association provides a loan by reducing more than 25% to dental decay in children and adults.
One-third of the community water systems – from 51,000 to 17,000 to 17,000 in the United States – more than 51,000 services with more than 60% of the population.
Potential problems of many fluoride
CDC currently recommends a liter of water to a liter of 0.7 milligram fluoride.
Over time, people documented potential problems when people get more.
Excessive Florid setting, associated with stripes and spots in teeth. Research has already established a connection between fluoride and brain development.
Suming generalized research in Canada, China, India, Iran, Pakistan and Mexico last year, the National Toxicology Program, 1.5 milligrams of water from 1.5 milligrams of water – CDC’s recommended level, children’s recommended levels, children with low IIs.
Meanwhile, last year, the Federal judge ordered the EPA in drinking water to the further regulation of fluorid. US district judge Edward Chen, this indicates that certain fluorid has not caused the low IQ in children, but the investigation is indicated to the baseless risk.
Kennedy took part in fluorid
A former environmental lawyer Kennedy, Fluoride, “Dangerous Neurotoxin” and “Industrial Waste” tied to the health threat. Said that arthritis is associated with bone breaks and thyroid disease.
Some studies can be available at the level of fluoride in general, some reviewers have questioned the quality of the existing evidence, and there are no final results.
How to change Florid tricks
CDC recommendations are widely monitored, but not mandatory.
State and local governments decide whether to add fluoride to the water, and if the epa is not exceeded the four milligrams of milligrams.
Thus, Kennedy can not place orders to stop fluoridation, but can stop recommending the CDC.
It is a customary accumulation of a specialist panel that evaluates evidence that scans and spoke with the positive and disadvantages of water floridation. But Kennedy has the power to stop or change a CDC recommendation without it.
“Power sleeps with the secretary,” but if the recommendations are changed without a clear scientific basis, Corcgetown University is a public health law expert.
“If you are really serious about it, you just don’t change and change.” “You wanted someone to conduct an investigation into the National Academy of Sciences and then follow their recommendations.”
On Monday, Kennedy said that he said that he would order to recommend the CDC to form a task group aimed at fluoride.
HHS officials did not answer the questions immediately looking for more information to do what the task group will do.
Some places are already withdrawn to fluoridation
Utah recently became the first state to ban fluorid in drinking water, and legislators are looking at the issue elsewhere.
36 CDC data-related press analysis shows that many communities have stopped floration in recent years.
In the last six years, at least 734 water systems, which consistently stated their data in these countries, stopped the water.
Mississippi organized more than 5 of single water systems. Most of the water systems suspending fluoridation were mainly to save money, the Assistant Mississippi State Department of the Mississippi State Department Assistant Departet.
During the pandemic, Mississippi’s health department allowed local water systems to temporarily suspend the genitegity, because the global supply chain did not get sodium floridin in the middle of the chain problems. Many never restarted, Parker said.
CDC financing for fluoride is usually a small factor
Since 2003, CDC has financed a limited number of state oral health programs through cooperative agreements. Agreements are found in periods, and 15 states in the beginning of this year receive $ 380,000 in three years.
Collect information about people who have dental problems, including money, a number of things, technical assistance and technical assistance for floridization activities of dental water.
The current Oral Health Funding, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, New York, Northylvania, South Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin.
States are said to use money for chemicals, because funding intends to help the establishment of floration, not for daily expenses, but also to the expressions of federal officials. For example, South Carolina, this state puts up to $ 50,000 to help communities in fluori. Iowa spends about $ 65,000 to encourage society water floridation.
At the beginning of this year, CDC officials refused to answer questions about how much the general oral health money was the result of the fluorization.
Now there is no one to ask: Last week, the CDC’s oral health section of the 20-member CDC was eliminated as part of the interruption of widespread government workers.
The Congress must provide congress congratulations to CDC specifically oral health programs, and some congress employees should distribute these funds, regardless of whom the agency works with HHS or CDC. However, the trump-managed budget cuts hit a number of programs called by Congress and it is not known what the CDC oral health financing will be.
Fluoridation is relatively inexpensive compared to other water department expenditures, and most communities, according to the American Water Affairs Union, customers include the cost of water charges.
For example, pensylvania, such as pensylvania, 220,000 people costs about $ 35,000 for about $ 35,000 and are fully funded with water ratios, Craig Palmer, CEO of Erie.
Thus, the CDC will not affect the money, most communities will not affect most of the communities, although some experts can affect some small, rural communities.
-Mike Stobbe and Kasturi Pananjady, Associated Press
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