The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put four companies on notice for marketing “unapproved fluoride-containing ingestible drugs” for use by children under the age of 3 or children at low or moderate risk of tooth decay.

“This Halloween, the FDA is driving a stake through the heart of outdated science and protecting our kids from the risks associated with ingestible fluoride,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a release announcing the FDA’s crackdown.

The release did not specify which four companies had received notices, which the FDA sent out on Friday. The FDA warned the companies that it would pursue “compliance action” unless they addressed the organization’s “safety concerns.”

The agency wrote that it was pursuing this compliance action base

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