Your dentist will appreciate hearing that you're brushing twice daily with a fluoride toothpaste, in accordance with generally accepted tooth-cleaning recommendations. However, you might want to double-check that your toothpaste isn't part of a recall batch. Toothpaste, like any consumer product, can be flagged by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for problems. Plenty of hygienic goods have been pulled from distribution because the FDA deemed that they posed some type of risk.

The FDA doesn't always recall products, though. In 2024, an FDA warning to the parent company, Colgate-Palmolive, and Tom's of Maine, Inc., said that "significant violations" of Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) resulted in "microbial incidents in water and in OTC [over the counter] products." Colg

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