Rep. Rich McCormick told Newsmax on Monday that he expects more states to ban adding fluoride to the drinking water as more tests are done to drill down on the effects on human health.

The Georgia Republican, a physician himself, joined “Rob Schmitt Tonight” to discuss Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s task force that will focus on the issue.

“I hope it will be something definitive. Some of it is very easy to parse out. You can see that certain states historically have not had fluoride. Of course, they had the highest cavity rate as well,” McCormick said. “I do know that fluoride has had great benefit to people’s teeth. But, like the secretary said, we know that that can be topically applied without the systemic effect of drinking water.”

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