Judge Lifts Stay In Fluoride Trial In Narrow Bid To Obtain Draft NTP Report

The judge overseeing anti-fluoridation groups’ long-running suit over EPA’s denial of their petition to ban fluoridation under TSCA has lifted his years-long stay to try to obtain the latest draft of a key scientific report on the mineral’s toxicity so that he and the parties in the case can review it to determine if it should be considered in a potential future ruling over whether EPA should regulate fluoridation. Despite objections from EPA, Judge Edward Chen of the U.S. District...