DeSantis signs bill banning fluoride additives in Florida public water: 'Hydrate, not medicate'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 700 into instrumentality Tuesday, eliminating the quality of section governments to adhd fluoride oregon different aesculapian additives to the state’s nationalist h2o supply, a determination cheered by supporters of aesculapian state and wellness transparency.

"Jamming fluoride successful the h2o proviso …  is fundamentally a forced medication," DeSantis said during a quality league successful Tallahassee. "At the extremity of the day, we should each hold that radical merit informed consent."

The caller law, portion of the broader Florida Farm Bill, does not prohibition fluoride entirely. 

Floridians volition inactive beryllium capable to acquisition fluoridated h2o from backstage suppliers. But it draws a steadfast enactment against the authorities deciding what goes successful your solid without your say.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a quality league April 10, 2025, successful Miami, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

"When it gets blistery successful the Sunshine State, nary 1 clamors for a acold solid of fluoride," authorities Sen. Keith Truenow told Fox News Digital. "We volition support our earthy resources and springiness Floridians the quality to marque the champion choices without authorities forcing unnecessary additives."

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson, who joined DeSantis astatine the signing, emphasized that this isn’t astir denying radical fluoride, but ensuring they aren’t medicated without consent.

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"Today, Florida took a bold measurement and declared that drinking h2o volition hydrate, not medicate," Simpson said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

"No Floridian should beryllium medicated without their consent, plain and simple. Through our Florida Farm Bill, we’re saying large and clear: Florida’s h2o volition beryllium clean, it volition beryllium harmless and it volition beryllium medication-free. That’s what state looks similar successful the Free State of Florida."

The effort aligns with the nationalist "Make America Healthy Again" question led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. His inaugural emphasizes user choice, reduced reliance connected centralized wellness mandates and a renewed skepticism of top-down aesculapian policies.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a quality league April 10, 2025, successful Miami, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

"Today’s efforts to prohibit section governments from unilaterally adding fluoride to nationalist drinking h2o is the logical adjacent iteration of our committedness to being the Free State of Florida," said Bryan Griffin, communications manager for DeSantis. "And Ron DeSantis has delivered yet again."

DeSantis besides tied the determination to a increasing nationalist distrust of aesculapian institutions, citing the fallout from COVID-era policies.

"People are conscionable overmuch much skeptical erstwhile these elites are trying to jam thing down our throats," helium said. "The load is connected them to beryllium wherefore this should beryllium forced connected people. And it truly shouldn’t be."

The authorities besides includes wide enactment for Florida’s agriculture sector, caller user transparency laws and restrictions connected environmental, societal and governance (ESG) practices that people farmers and ranchers.

DeSantis has besides promised enactment connected geoengineering.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"Florida is not a investigating crushed for geoengineering," DeSantis wrote connected X Tuesday. "The Free State of Florida means state from governments oregon backstage actors unilaterally applying chemicals oregon geoengineering to radical oregon nationalist spaces."

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Critics of SB 700 reason fluoridation has agelong been utilized to combat bony decay, peculiarly successful children.

But DeSantis pointed to updated guidance from State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, who raised concerns astir fluoride’s effects connected large women and children. 

"You don’t adjacent person to hold with that analysis," the politician said, "but radical should inactive person the close to opt out."

Kennedy did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.