Manatee County commissioners have agreed to further discussion on Commissioner Amanda Ballard's bid to remove fluoride from the county's drinking water. Manatee County officials will consider putting a stop to the county’s decades-long practice of adding fluoride to drinking water.

If commissioners vote to follow the guidance of Florida's surgeon general, Manatee would join more than a dozen other local governments to end the practice, including Niceville in the Panhandle.