History has been made. After 7 years of pursuing legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the risk posed to the developing brain by the practice of water fluoridation, the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has just ruled on behalf of the Fluoride Action Network and the plaintiffs in our precedent-setting court case. A U.S. federal court has now deemed fluoridation an "unreasonable risk" to the health of children, and the EPA will be forced to regulate it as such. The decision is written very strongly in our favor, and we will share it in its entirety tomorrow. Below is an excerpt from the introduction of the ruling:
"The issue before this Court is whether the Plaintiffs have established by a preponderance of the evidence that the fluoridation of drinking water at levels typical in the United States poses an unreasonable risk of injury to health of the public within the meaning of Amended TSCA. For the reasons set forth below, the Court so finds. Specifically, the Court finds that fluoridation of water at 0.7 milligrams per liter (“mg/L”) – the level presently considered “optimal” in the United States – poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children..the Court finds there is an unreasonable risk of such injury, a risk sufficient to require the EPA to engage with a regulatory response...One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk."
Awesome! That's an amazing accomplishment! Wish my state would do this.
I just found out recently, due to my own health conditions, that drinking fluoridated water is also shown to increase cases of hypothyroidism, which is what I'm currently dealing with. I was trying to better myself by drinking more water and instead I got an autoimmune disease that attacks my thyroid. Fantastic.
I've been able to find a relatively inexpensive water filter that actually does filter out fluoride, which is impossible to find with typical pitcher filters. If you're curious, I really recommend Clearly Filtered, and you can check out vids on YouTube that actually test the water before and after being filtered to see if fluoride is indeed filtered out, and it is! I'm loving it so far, my water tastes so much better, and I'm hoping that reducing the amount of fluoride I consume (which shouldn't happen anyway, but obviously it's in our water and many other things, so it's hard to avoid these days) will help ease my thyroid symptoms.
It's federal. Precedent is now set.
Great news!