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Is Fluoride Overdose Possible?
Water is for everyone, fluoride is not.
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How much fluoride are you already swallowing?
Many beverages, baby foods, cereals, and juices are processed with fluoridated water, and vegetables having been sprayed with fluoride-based pesticides and fertilizers already contain unsafe levels of fluoride far above the amount suggested for artificial water fluoridation - 1 part per million (1 mg per liter of water).
In addition, it is impossible to control the amount of water any single individual drinks; therefore, it is impossible to control how much fluoride adults, children, and infants ingest.
Therefore - overdosing is inevitable.
The following tables of common U.S. foods and beverages tested by various
laboratories will show how easy it is to overdose on fluoride in most diets.
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Sequoia Analytical
Redwood City, California, May 1998 |
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| Dole Pineapple juice | 0.78 ppm |
| Lucerne 2% milk | 0.72 ppm |
| Snapple | 0.29 ppm |
| Coca Cola Classic | 0.82 ppm |
| Hansens Soda | 0.45 ppm |
| Minute Maid juice | 1.20 ppm |
| Capri Sun juice | 0.37 ppm |
| Gerber Strawberry juice | 1.80 ppm |
| Horizon milk (organic) | 0.22 ppm |
| Sunny Delight | 0.31 ppm |
| Pepsi | 0.37 ppm |
| Knudson Recharge | 0.28 ppm |
| Gerber White Grape | 2.50 ppm |
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Expert Chemical Analysis, Inc.,
San Diego, California, June 1998 |
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| Gerber Graduates Berry Punch | 3.00 ppm |
| Coca Cola Classic | 0.98 ppm |
| Minute Maid Premium Orange juice | 0.98 ppm |
| Aqua Fresh toothpaste for kids | 192.00 mg/kg |
| Kellogg's Fruit Loops cereal | 2.10 mg/kg |
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Jupiter Environmental laboratories, Inc.
Jupiter, Florida, June 1998 |
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| Gerber White Grape Juice | 3.50 ppm |
| Gatorade Punch concentrate | 0.44 ppm |
| Diet Coke | 1.12 ppm |
| Lipton Ice Tea | 0.56 ppm |
| Sprite | 0.73 ppm |
| Hawaiian Punch | 0.85 ppm |
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Northwest Testing Laboratories
Portland, Oregon, July 1960 |
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| Post Grape Nuts cereal | 6.40 ppm |
| Kellogg Shredded Wheat | 9.40 ppm |
| General Mill's Wheaties | 10.10 ppm |