Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Investigations Into Toothpaste

I don’t know what to believe here.

 

You are not supposed to swallow toothpaste - it’s in the instructions for use, and it’s very important to use toothpaste with Flouride. The overwhelmingly vast majority of doctors and dentist will agree. This is a case of Paxton not understanding science and misrepresentations of the study results vs reality. The study was based on much much higher levels of Flouride than is actually used the U.S. Abnormally high levels. The amount of Flouride you’d have to ingest to be toxic is a whole lot over a very short period of time. To put it in perspective, to ingest toxic or dangerous amounts of Flouride through drinking water, you’d have to ingest over 700 liters of water in a day. You would die from water toxicity if you drank 2.5% of that amount.

beware of anyone that warns you that something is toxic without telling you at what amount it becomes toxic.

 

You're always safe believing Ken Paxton is completely full of ****

 

I do, brother.

 

This the core of the claim: "However, despite both these and additional guidelines, toothpaste manufacturers continue to flavor their products and deceptively market them in ways that encourage kids to ingest fluoride toothpaste and mislead their parents to use far more than the safe and recommended amount of fluoride toothpaste. "

That's going to be an uphill battle when the instructions on toothpaste follow ADA guidelines (as well as those from the gov). There's also no reason to mislead on this - there are no financial or other benefits to encouraging kids to ingest fluoride toothpaste.

This probably all came about because a federal judge ruled in September 2024 (the case lasted 9 years!) that there is "substantial and scientifically credible evidence" that fluoride in drinking water could pose a risk to human health - especially regarding reduced IQ in children. However, he was also clear that his ruling "does not conclude with certainty that fluoridated water is injurious to public health," only that there is enough evidence of potential risk to warrant forcing the EPA to take action (to address the risk).

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-fluoride-drinking-water-federal-court-ruling/

 

Constant barrage of stupid ideas coming from people the poor states vote for. Yeah bro, it's toothpaste yall need to worry about from your trailer-shack (no offense @Buck Turgidson) in Longview, TX.