Riverton Mayor Trent Stags issued the following statement after the Riverton City Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting H.B. 81 Fluoride Amendments:
I am pleased Riverton City is the first to support H.B. 81 Fluoride Amendments, and I encourage all Utah state representatives and senators to vote in favor of passage. The Riverton City Council unanimously passed a resolution in support of the legislation prohibiting the addition of fluoride in public water systems. I believe it reflects the sentiments of Riverton residents and the concerns over continuing to add fluoride. Upon passage by the state legislature, I have instructed Riverton City Public Works Department to immediately suspend fluoridating culinary water in city owned water systems.
Regardless of fluoride’s purported health benefits, Utahns and their families should be able to choose for themselves whether and how to apply it. Riverton residents, living under Salt Lake County’s fluoridation ordinances, have been denied that freedom to decide for themselves for nearly a quarter century. It’s time to change that!
Let’s empower Utahns with independence to make their own individual health risk assessments pertaining to fluoride.