Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Sciences, National Research Council.
Measures of exposure to fluoride in the United States -- Pharmacokinetics of fluoride -- Effects of fluoride on teeth -- Musculoskeletal effects -- Reproductive and developmental effects of fluoride -- Neurotoxicity and neurobehavioral effects -- Effects on the endocrine system -- Effects on the gastrointestinal, renal, hepatic, and immune systems -- Genotoxicity and carcinogenicity -- Drinking water standards for fluoride.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Most people associate fluoride with the practice of intentionally adding fluoride to public drinking water supplies for the prevention of tooth decay. However, fluoride can also enter public water systems from natural sources, including runoff from the weathering of fluoride-containing rocks and soils and leaching from soil into groundwater. Fluoride pollution from various industrial emissions can also contaminate water supplies. In a few areas of the United States fluoride concentrations in water are much higher than normal, mostly from natural sources. Fluoride is one of the drinking water contaminants regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because it can occur at these toxic levels. In 1986, the EPA established a maximum allowable concentration for fluoride in drinking water of 4 milligrams per liter, a guideline designed to prevent the public from being exposed to harmful levels of fluoride. Fluoride in Drinking Water reviews research on various health effects from exposure to fluoride, including studies conducted in the last 10 years.
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OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Fluoride in drinking water.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Fluorine-- Physiological effect.
Water-- Fluoridation-- United States.
Fluoridation.
Fluorides-- adverse effects.
Fluorides-- toxicology
Eau-- Fluoration-- États-Unis.
Fluor-- Effets physiologiques.
Fluorine-- Physiological effect.
MEDICAL-- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL-- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL-- Public Health.
Water-- Fluoridation.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States.
United States.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
MED-- 030000
MED-- 076000
MED-- 078000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
613
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2/87
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
RA591
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7
Book number
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F556
2006eb
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
WA
686
Book Number
F647
2006
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water.