Judge Chen noted that the finding does not conclude with certainty that fluoridated water is injurious to public health but does find there is an unreasonable risk of such injury. This risk is sufficient to require the EPA to enact a regulatory response, Chen wrote. The court emphasized that the message is clear: the EPA cannot ignore the significant risks posed by water fluoridation, as this could implicate public health concerns.
The Fluoride Action Network believes the most effective way to eliminate this risk is to end water fluoridation and ban the practice altogether. In our view, attempts by the EPA to appeal or delay this ruling will only result in harm to hundreds of thousands of additional children, particularly those whose families are unable to afford expensive reverse osmosis or distillation filtration of their tap water, wrote Stuart Cooper.
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