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The former scientific director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) on Monday took the stand on the fourth day of a landmark trial on water fluoridation, despite efforts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to scuttle his testimony.
Brian Berridge, DVM, Ph.D., testified about the initial findings in the NTP’s draft report linking fluoride to lower IQ in children.
Berridge also outlined the process leading up to the court-ordered release of the report in March 2023. He was limited to discussing the formal NTP report publication process — not his thoughts on whether political concerns may have influenced or delayed that process — because of an April 2023 ruling that those observations fall outside the scope of the trial.
However, The Defender later in the day caught up with Berridge, who was able to speak more freely about his concerns.
Now retired, Berridge said that at the time, he was annoyed by how the NTP report publication process played out because he believed it was an outcome of public health agencies’ desires to protect the practices they already have in place.
As a result, he said, public health officials are ignoring that some people are being exposed to fluoride at high levels.
“This lack of consideration for all the possible people who could be harmed by [water fluoridation] so that we don’t implicate something that we have intentionally done bothers me a lot,” he said.
As an outcome of the agencies protecting their existing practices, the necessary research on fluoride exposure hasn’t been done, despite major indicators that it needed to be investigated, Berridge said…
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