{"id":25809,"date":"2025-04-11T15:29:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25809"},"modified":"2025-04-11T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:26:14","slug":"miami-dade-mayor-vetoes-plan-to-remove-fluoride-from-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25809","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade Mayor Vetoes Plan to Remove Fluoride From Drinking Water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The veto by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a Democrat, pushed back on a growing campaign against the mineral, which has been used for decades to prevent cavities.<\/p>\n

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The mayor of Miami-Dade County on Friday said she would veto legislation that would remove fluoride from the drinking water in Florida\u2019s most populous county, pushing back on a growing campaign against the mineral used to prevent cavities.<\/p>\n

The veto by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a Democrat, comes at a moment when critics of adding fluoride to the water supply have a newly powerful ally: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump\u2019s health secretary, who this week called for states to ban fluoride in drinking<\/a> water. Utah recently became the first state to outlaw<\/a> adding fluoride to public water, and several other states, including Florida, are considering similar action.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe science is very clear,\u201d Ms. Levine Cava said at a news conference on Friday. She added, \u201cending fluoridation could have real and lasting harm, especially for children and families who cannot afford regular dental care.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners, a nonpartisan body, approved the measure to ban fluoride on April 1 in an 8 to 2 vote, with three commissioners absent. Nine votes are needed to override the mayor\u2019s veto if all 13 are present, and it is unclear whether there will be enough support. The next scheduled board meeting is on May 6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Six of the 13 commissioners are Republican, including Kevin Marino Cabrera, an ally of Mr. Trump\u2019s who will soon depart to become the country\u2019s ambassador to Panama<\/a>. Ms. Levine Cava is now the state\u2019s highest-ranking elected Democrat, with Republicans having swept every other countywide elected office in Miami-Dade \u2014 including sheriff and elections supervisor \u2014 last year.<\/p>\n

Many experts have warned that removing fluoride from drinking water would be detrimental to oral health, and particularly cavity prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> has called fluoridation one of the \u201c10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The veto by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a Democrat, pushed back on a growing campaign against the mineral, which has been used for decades to prevent cavities.The mayor of Miami-Dade County on Friday said she would veto legislation that would remove fluoride from the drinking water in Florida\u2019s most populous county, pushing back on a growing campaign against the mineral used to prevent cavities.The veto by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a Democrat, comes at a moment when critics of adding fluoride to the water supply have a newly powerful ally: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump\u2019s health secretary, who this week called for states to ban fluoride in drinking water. Utah recently became the first state to outlaw adding fluoride to public water, and several other states, including Florida, are considering similar action.\u201cThe science is very clear,\u201d Ms. Levine Cava said at a news conference on Friday. She added, \u201cending fluoridation could have real and lasting harm, especially for children and families who cannot afford regular dental care.\u201dThe Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners, a nonpartisan body, approved the measure to ban fluoride on April 1 in an 8 to 2 vote, with three commissioners absent. Nine votes are needed to override the mayor\u2019s veto if all 13 are present, and it is unclear whether there will be enough support. The next scheduled board meeting is on May 6.Six of the 13 commissioners are Republican, including Kevin Marino Cabrera, an ally of Mr. Trump\u2019s who will soon depart to become the country\u2019s ambassador to Panama. Ms. Levine Cava is now the state\u2019s highest-ranking elected Democrat, with Republicans having swept every other countywide elected office in Miami-Dade \u2014 including sheriff and elections supervisor \u2014 last year.Many experts have warned that removing fluoride from drinking water would be detrimental to oral health, and particularly cavity prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called fluoridation one of the \u201c10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25811,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25812,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25809\/revisions\/25812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}