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The law goes into effect July 1. The bill removes fluoride from the state's legal definition of acceptable "water quality ...
In 2003, when Salt Lake City started adding fluoride to its water, Dr. Brent Larson had been practicing dentistry for 20 ...
Previous reviews by public health experts and dental professionals have not shown any serious health risks with the products.
SALT LAKE CITY -- With Utah's first-in-the-nation ban on fluoride in public drinking water set to take effect Wednesday, ...
The ban marks an unsettling and deeply anti-scientific trend taking hold among the GOP — and even some MAGA allies are ...
Spencer Cox on March 29 after being approved by the Utah State Senate in late February. Why are states banning fluoride in public water? How many states have nixed the mineral from drinking water?
Utah made national history when it became the first state in the nation to ban the introduction of fluoride in public ...
Adding fluoride to public water systems started in the United States in 1945. The sponsor of the Utah legislation, Republican Rep. Stephanie Gricius, acknowledged fluoride has benefits ...
In 2010, a small city nestled between the Rocky Mountains and Lake Pend Oreille in North Idaho voted to stop adding fluoride ...
With Florida set to ban fluoride in public drinking water, health officials in Utah — the first state to impose a similar ...
These products are typically prescribed for babies and children who are at high risk of tooth decay because they drink water that doesn’t contain added fluoride. In Utah, for example ...