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April 13, 2025

Why water fluoridation, long considered a public health success story, is under scrutiny

By MIKE STOBBE and KASTURI PANANJADY Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants communities to stop fluoridating water, and he is setting the gears of government in motion

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