May 15 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Thursday banning fluoride in public water, making it the second state to do so.
DeSantis signed SB 700, known as the Farm Bill, during a press conference. The law, which is to go into effect July 1, prohibits local governments from adding fluoride and other "water quality" additives from the water supply.
DeSantis equated the use of fluoride in water -- which is heralded as a trusted and tested public health preventative medicine strategy -- as "basically forced medication on people."
"People want to use it on their teeth, great. But it's readily available now," he said.
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