FDA, RFK Jr. Start the effort to eliminate marketing fluoride products on the market
Washington (AP) – The United States Health Regulators announced an effort on Tuesday to eliminate ingratible fluoride supplements that are sometimes used to strengthen children’s teeth, opening a new front in the Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. against a dental care pillar.
Food and medication administration said it will carry out a scientific review of children for children at the end of October with the aim of eliminating them from the market. Formally withdrawing medical products requires a long regulation process that may take years. Instead, the FDA will ask manufacturers to voluntarily withdraw their products, according to an administration official.
Sometimes Tablets and fluoride tablets for children and adolescents are recommended with a higher risk of caries or caries due to low fluoride in their local drinking water. Companies also sell babies.
The FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said that the products represent a risk when they swallow because they can interfere with healthy intestinal bacteria that are critical for digestion, immunity and other key bodily functions. He also referred to studies that show possible associations between excess fluoride intake and other problems, including the decreased IQ.
The previous reviews of public health experts and dental professionals have not shown serious health risks with products.
As state and local governments begin to eliminate the fluoride from their water, the need for supplementary fluoride is expected to grow.
The officials in Utah, the first state of the USA. Uu. In prohibiting the drinking water fluoride, they recently made available fluoride supplements without recipe.
Fluoride strengthens teeth and reduces decay by replacing lost minerals during normal wear, according to centers for disease control and prevention. In 1962, the agency established guidelines on how much it should be added to the water.
Kennedy, a former environmental lawyer, has called a “dangerous neurotoxin” linked to a variety of health hazards. Last month, a working group announced to analyze the use of fluoride, while at the same time he said that he would order the CDCs to stop recommending to be added to tap water.
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A report last year of the National Federal Government toxicology program concluded that drinking water more than double the recommended level of the CDC was associated with IQ lower in children. The study was based on an investigation carried out in Canada, China, India, Iran, Pakistan and Mexico.
“Finishing the use of ingestible fluoride is very late,” Kennedy said in a statement on Tuesday. “This decision brings us one more step to comply with President Trump’s promise to make the United States again healthy.”
An influential government health panel recommends fluoride supplements for children between the ages of six months and 5 years if they live in areas with low levels of flow. The US preventive services groups. UU. They judged the recommendation to have “high certainty”, based on the available evidence.
A 2010 article by the American Dental Association recommended supplementary fluoride for children up to 16 years of age who are high risk of caries. The recommendation was based on a review of studies in different age groups. The most common side effect associated with products is the detection or discoloration of the teeth, caused by additional fluoride.
The ADA did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The FDA regulates most dental products, including dental pastes that contain fluoride, mouthwashes, rinse and rinses. But in Tuesday’s press release, the FDA said that the ingratible products led by the agency “have never been approved.” Its plan would not affect toothpastes, mouthwash or fluoride rinse treatments used by adults or offered in the dentist offices.
In recent weeks, products containing fluoride have increasingly aimed at legal demands and actions.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation earlier this month on the marketing of fluorine toothpaste by Colgate-Palmolive and Prince and Gamble. A press release from his office described the promotions of the companies as “deceptive, deceptive and dangerous.”
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