Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said he would sign a law banning the addition of fluoride to public drinking water, making his state the first in the nation to do so.
In an interview aired March 9, the Republican governor noted that half of Utah already doesn’t have fluoride added to the water, and dentists he consulted reported no “drastically different outcomes” in dental health between fluoridated and non-fluoridated counties.
“It’s got to be a really high bar for me if we’re going to require people to be medicated by their government,” Cox told Lindsay Aerts of ABC4 Utah.
The bill, HB81, would prohibit public water systems from adding fluoride and allow pharmacists to prescribe fluoride tablets as an alternative for individuals who want it….