It’s iodine in table salt not fluoride. In the US.
Never knew that France fluoridated their salt.
Never knew that France fluoridated their salt.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24308394/
(Sea salt and Kosher salt are the salts that aren't fluoridated and iodated in those countries, fancy, more expensive salts, regular table salt- and the salt added in commercial/restaurants has both.)
So sure, you don't need to fluoridate the water, if you fluoridate the salt instead. But you have to do it some way or another. And the US and Canada doesn't, at present fluoridate the salt because we have it in the water. Remove it from some people's water but don't add it to the salt because everyone else has it in the water? Bad combination.