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Sources of Fluoride Toxicity

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Fluoride Toxicity in Animals

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Sources of excess fluoride intake for animals are diverse and include drinking water, fluoride compounds used for household and agricultural purposes, forage and grasses contaminated with industrial fluoride emissions or volcanic ash, and occasionally, poor quality mineral mixture and feed supplements. Soil rich in soluble fluoride may also be responsible for fluorosis in grazing animals, particularly when growing vegetation is small and scanty. Toxicity arising due to airborne fluoride is rare and oral intake remains the major route of excess fluoride uptake. A water fluoride level as low as 1.5 ppm can cause chronic fluoride toxicity in several species, although the literature suggests higher water fluoride tolerance levels in most domestic animals. Volcanic-ash–contaminated pasture has been reported to cause mortality outbreaks in grazing animals in several countries.

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Ranjan, R., Ranjan, A. (2015). Sources of Fluoride Toxicity. In: Fluoride Toxicity in Animals. SpringerBriefs in Animal Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17512-6_2

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