Our bottled water product was the first fluoridated water product to bear a warning statement advising parents not to use the product if they were giving their baby a fluoride supplement unless they talked to the doctor. Dear Mr Montgumery, Thank you for your interest in Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation and our bottled water products. We are pleased to answer questions you may have regarding our products. Perhaps it would be useful to review some public health aspects of fluoride. Obviously, other companies reached a different interpretation, since other fluoridated bottled waters intended for infant use do bear a statement of the fluoride concentration.
Drinking water is an excellent vehicle for delivering fluoride.
This practice has been the subject of some of the best-controlled epidemiologic studies in medicine. This last sentence addresses the equivalency of fluoride drops and fluoride levels in drinking water. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, fluoridated water is the standard. Fluoride supplements are the alternative. As noted above, the Committee believes that the appropriate amount of fluoride for the child is the amount provided by optimally fluoridated drinking water.