The mayor of Miami Dead Province said on Friday that she had made Fit legislation that would remove fluoride from the most populated drinking water in Florida, as it prompted a growing campaign against the minerals used to prevent cavities.
The veto carried out by Mayor Daniela Levin Cava, a democratic, comes in a moment when critics are adding fluoride to water supply they have a newly strong ally: Robert F. Kennedy Junior, Minister of Health, President Trump, Which this week called for the ban of fluoride to drink water. Utah has recently become the first country To be banned Adding fluoride to public water, and many other states, including Florida, is studying similar procedures.
“The science is very clear,” Ms. Levin Cava told a press conference on Friday. She added, “It can be a real and permanent damage, especially for children and families who cannot withstand regular dental care,” she added.
The Miami Dead Provincial Commissioners Council, a non -partisan body, approved the procedure that prohibits fluoride on April 1 in 8 to 2 votes, with the absence of three commissioners. Nine votes are needed to overcome the veto in the mayor if all the 13 commissioners are present, and it is not clear whether there will be sufficient support. The next scheduled board meeting on May 6.
Six Republican Commissioners, including Kevin Marino Kapreira, an ally of Mr. Trump, who will soon leave to become The country’s ambassador to Panama. Mrs. Levin Cava is now the highest-elected Democrat in the state, as the Republicans have invaded every position of the boycott level in Miami Dead-including Sharif and the supervisor of the election-last year.
At the press conference on Friday, Mrs. Levin Cava, surrounded by dentists and doctors in their white medical coats, was martyred to support her decision.
She said: “I do what I believe in is the right thing to do in the interest of society’s health, and I stand with our dental and medicine experts.”
Commissioner Roberto J. Gonzalez, who sponsored the legislation, Mrs. Livin Cava accused “Acting is like a typical politician, based on partisan opinion polls and tired talk points, while endangering people’s health.”
In a statement on Friday, his colleagues in the committee called for overcoming the veto.
the Measure Miami Deed will require stopping adding fluoride to water supply within 30 days. Mrs. Levin Cava said that she and her office were closely following efforts in the legislative body in Florida to pass a similar ban at the state level.
Many experts have warned that removing fluoride from drinking water will be harmful to oral health, especially the prevention of the cavity. the Disease control and prevention centers Floura called one of the “10 greatest public health achievements in the twentieth century.”
But beware of fluoride Take a new life In recent years, especially after the Corona virus virus confidence in public health interventions. Opponents say they want to protect physical autonomy and have raised concerns about the potential cognitive effects in children.
They point to a A recent review paperAnd where an analysis of 74 studies conducted by researchers at the National Health Institutes of Health found that there is a link between the degrees of low intelligence in children with high levels of childhood or fluoride. (The levels that were studied twice were like those recommended by the Center for Disease Control, and some of them research He did not find any link.)
Mrs. Levin Cava Veto puts it in conflict with Mr. Kennedy and other skeptical in Florid in the Trump administration, as well as with the governor of the state, Ron Desantis, a fans, and His general wounds, Dr. Joseph a. LaduboWho was traveling all over the state to speak against fluorine water.
“Do we want forced drugs or do we want people to be able to choose the medicine?” Mr. Disantis recently said. “When you force her to supply water, this does not give people a truly option.”
Before the mayor’s announcement, Dr. Labo, who also has To stop To use Covid vaccines, Miami Dead residents urged the mayor to support the Fluoride ban. He said: “I will never understand how anyone feels his right to add medications to the water that others drink.”
Fluoride was presented for the first time City water supply in 1945 And it began to become a common practice throughout the country in the following decades. Studies show a direct relationship between fluorine and improve oral health.
Dr. Brett Kisler, head of the American Dental Association, said in a statement this week: “The increasing lack of confidence in the reliable science and the excess through evidence is frustrated,” said Dr. Brett Kisler, President of the American Dental Association, in a statement this week. “When government officials, such as Minister Kennedy, stand behind the suspension of wrong information and the lack of confidence in the research that the peers reviewed, it is harmful to public health.”
Flu -water was discussed for yearsPartially because experts say that Excessive exposure To fluoride for a long time can cause health problems. Federal obligatory levels have decreased over the years, including after a court order.
On Monday, Lee Zeladen, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced the decision to “review new scientific information quickly about the possible health risks of fluoride in drinking water.”
“Without controlling any results, when this evaluation is completed, we will have an updated basic scientific evaluation”, Mr. Zeldin Say in a censusR. Mr. Kennedy was restricted because he was “a long time ago at the forefront of this issue.”
At the Miami Dead committee meeting in April, most of the people who spoke during the general suspension part of the Fluourite were. Days after the meeting, Mrs. Levin held Cava A round table discussion With doctors, dentists and others in society who focused on its benefits.
Nearly 20 other cities and provinces in Florida have voted to remove fluoride from their water supplies since the November elections. Among them, Miami Dead County, which includes about 2.7 million people, is largely the largest. invoice under It is a discussion in the Legislative Council in Florida, which would prevent local municipalities from adding fluoride to water.
Miami Deed’s policy has turned sharply into the right in recent years, reflecting Florida transformation From the mandate of the battlefield to the state of the Republican voting. In November, Mr. Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win the province since 1988.
Patricia Mazi The reports contributed
