Adding fluoride chemicals to drinking water presents an unreasonable risk of IQ loss in children

Michael Connett: "The court concluded, Dell, that adding fluoride chemicals to drinking water presents an unreasonable risk of IQ loss in children. I'll repeat, an unreasonable risk of IQ loss in children. And this is not at high levels, Dell. The judge specifically said, at the levels that we currently add to drinking water, so-called optimal level of.7 PPM, that that presents an unreasonable risk of IQ loss in children. That's what the federal court ruled this week after seven years, seven years of litigation involving extensive expert testimony on both sides, right? The judge heard from the best on both sides of the issue, right? The EPA, the government put up their best experts, we put up our best experts. The judge heard, you know, very strong viewpoints on both sides, the full amount of evidence, and reach this conclusion. So unreasonable risk to our children. And Del, you were just talking about the food supply here in the United States and about how the chemicals we add here are different and we have a, than other countries. Well, I would add to that, that with fluoridation, over half of the people in this world who drink fluoridated water, live here in the United States. We are the most fluoridated nation on earth. Wow. And it's not just the water. We add fluoride to over 200 million people's water here in the US. But that is not just, doesn't just stay in the water. It's contaminating our processed foods. It's contaminating our processed beverages. So I think that when we think about the food supply, right? Yeah. Which is a very rightful concern and focus. Let us also keep in mind the water supply that feeds into the food supply and fluoride chemicals are something that we really, really need to be getting out of the water and following the lead of Europe, which for the most part has already done so. Well, we brought it because there's a federal statute called Toxic Substances Control Act, TOSCA, and the EPA administers that act. This act gives the EPA the authority to ban the particular use of a chemical that presents an unreasonable risk to health. So we went to the EPA and asked the agency to exercise its authority to ban this particular use of fluoride, namely fluoridation chemicals added to drinking water on the grounds that it presents an unreasonable risk to the brain. And EPA declined our petition, denied the petition, and then we went to court, and the court has now ordered the agency to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to eliminate this risk to the brain from adding fluoride chemicals to drinking water. So that's now the next phase of this, Del, is for the EPA to go back and begin a proceeding where it needs to answer a very complicated question. How do you eliminate the risk posed by adding fluoride chemicals to drinking water? Del, do you have any guesses as to?"