FDA seeks to remove ingestible fluoride products for kids' teeth from market

EPA to reappraisal fluoride effects

RFK Jr. wants CDC to halt recommending fluoride successful water 03:57

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced connected Tuesday it is starting the process of removing ingestible fluoride medicine cause products for kids from the market.

The FDA said successful a quality merchandise it volition behaviour a technological reappraisal of the children's products by Oct. 31 with the purpose of removing them from the market. 

It is not instantly wide whether the bureau plans to prohibition the supplements oregon petition that companies retreat them.

Fluoride is simply a people occurring mineral that helps fortify bony enamel and trim cavities, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It does this by repairing and preventing harm to teeth caused by bacteria successful the rima that nutrient acid, which successful crook dissolves minerals successful a tooth's aboveground and tin adjacent pb to bony loss. 

Poor oral wellness has been linked to complications including cardiovascular disease, and experts have told CBS News that preventative attraction is the champion mode to support dental wellness successful check.

But, successful the release, the FDA says ingested fluoride has been shown to "alter the gut microbiome," adding "other studies person suggested an relation betwixt fluoride and thyroid disorders, value summation and perchance decreased IQ."

In the aforesaid release, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said ending the usage of ingestible fluoride is "long overdue." Kennedy has a agelong past of questioning fluoride's safety, claiming it's linked to a fig of wellness problems.

Dental experts mostly disagree. 

Dr. Aaron Yancoskie, subordinate dean of world affairs astatine Touro College of Dental Medicine, told "CBS Mornings Plus" in November determination is "excellent, coagulated information going backmost 75 years, showing that fluoride is some harmless and it's highly effectual astatine decreasing dental decay, that is, cavities, by strengthening the enamel of our teeth."

The enactment against ingestible fluoride comes aft Kennedy, successful April, called for the extremity of assemblage h2o fluoridation, praising Utah's determination to ban the mineral from being added to nationalist h2o systems.

"It makes nary consciousness to person it successful our h2o supply. And I'm very, precise arrogant of this authorities for being the archetypal authorities to prohibition it. And I anticipation galore much volition come," Kennedy told reporters successful Utah.

Alexander Tin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.