CDC Recommends Lower Fluoride Levels

The CDC took a huge step in the right direction this past week by reducing the recommended maximum limit for fluoridated water from 1.2 mg per liter to 0.7 mg per liter, a full 71.4 percent reduction in the recommended safe limit. The implications are clear. The CDC has now publicly admitted what fluoride activists have been saying for more than 5 decades -- that fluoride is a dangerous substance, and is causing health problems at the levels added to our water. While we disagree with the CDC's position that any fluoride should be added to our water, we applaud their change in direction.

Our view is that the CDC has not yet admitted the real truth regarding fluoridation -- that no fluoride, whatsoever, should be added to our water. A full admission of the truth would likely unleash lawsuits that would make the tobacco lawsuits look tame by comparison. State and local governments, with the expressed support of various federal agencies and private trade organizations, such as the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association are complicit in adding fluoride to our water at unsafe levels for decades, while strong evidence of the dangers of fluoridation has been ignored by them for at least two decades.