Desantis Signs Bill Banning Fluoride Additives In Florida Public Water: 'hydrate, Not Medicate'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 700 into rule Tuesday, eliminating nan expertise of section governments to adhd fluoride aliases different aesculapian additives to nan state’s nationalist h2o supply, a move shouted by supporters of aesculapian state and wellness transparency.

"Jamming fluoride successful nan h2o proviso …  is fundamentally a forced medication," DeSantis said during a news convention successful Tallahassee. "At nan extremity of nan day, we should each work together that group merit informed consent."

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

Floridians will still beryllium capable to acquisition fluoridated h2o from backstage suppliers. But it draws a patient statement against nan authorities deciding what goes successful your solid without your say.

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

"When it gets basking successful nan Sunshine State, nary 1 clamors for a acold solid of fluoride," authorities Sen. Keith Truenow told Fox News Digital. "We will protect our earthy resources and springiness Floridians nan expertise to make nan champion choices without authorities forcing unnecessary additives."

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

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"Today, Florida took a bold measurement and declared that drinking h2o will 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 will beryllium clean, it will beryllium safe and it will beryllium medication-free. That’s what state looks for illustration successful nan Free State of Florida."

The effort aligns pinch nan nationalist "Make America Healthy Again" activity 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 news convention 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 nan logical adjacent loop of our committedness to being nan Free State of Florida," said Bryan Griffin, communications head for DeSantis. "And Ron DeSantis has delivered yet again."

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

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

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

DeSantis has besides promised action connected geoengineering.

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

"Florida is not a testing crushed for geoengineering," DeSantis wrote connected X Tuesday. "The Free State of Florida intends state from governments aliases backstage actors unilaterally applying chemicals aliases geoengineering to group aliases nationalist spaces."

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Critics of SB 700 reason fluoridation has agelong been utilized to conflict 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 pregnant women and children. 

"You don’t moreover person to work together pinch that analysis," nan politician said, "but group should still person nan correct to opt out."

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