RFK Jr orders CDC to review fluoride recommendations

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said he will order the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to revise its recommendation, which has stood for seven decades, that fluoride be added to drinking water.

The public health agency said on 7 April that it would re-examine the scientific evidence on fluoride’s safety and effectiveness after Kennedy said he will ask it to drop the guidance.1

The CDC currently suggests that 0.7 mg of fluoride be added per litre of water, the equivalent of three drops of water in a 55 gallon barrel. States generally follow that advice. Kennedy said he will instruct the CDC to drop that advice. …