Researcher: JO Page 1 3/27/25
OLR Bill Analysis
SB 1326
AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH'S
RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING FOOD SAFETY AND ORAL
HEALTH.
SUMMARY
This bill sets in law the amount of fluoride that water companies must
add to the water supply, rather than requiring the amount to be tied to
federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
recommendations as under current law. In doing so, it maintains the
current required level.
Specifically, it requires water companies to add enough fluoride to
maintain an average monthly fluoride content of 0.7 milligrams per liter
(mg/L) (the current HHS recommendation), within a range of 0.15
mg/L greater or lower than this amount. As under current law, the bill
applies to water systems that serve 20,000 or more people.
The bill also makes changes affecting the state’s adoption of the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food code. Existing law requires
the Department of Public Health (DPH) commissioner to adopt the FDA
Food Code as the state’s food code for regulating food establishments,
and DPH regulations doing so took effect in early 2023. The bill requires
the commissioner to adopt into the state code any FDA code revision
issued by December 31, 2024. It gives her the discretion to adopt into the
state code other supplements to the federal code, rather than requiring
her to as under current law.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
COMMITTEE ACTION
Public Health Committee
Joint Favorable
Yea 26 Nay 6 (03/12/2025)