Water Quality
Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Fluoride
Table 6.2 Safe Dietary levels, in mg/kg, of Fluoride for Livestock
Animal
|
Safe
as a
Total Diet
|
No
Toxic
Effects
dose
|
Maximum
Diet level
|
Maximum
Tolerance*
|
| |
Phillip et
al., 1955
|
Anon
(NAS), 1971a
|
Puls,
1981
|
Suttie,
1977
|
cattle
|
30-50
|
30-50
|
30-l00
|
50-l00
|
dairy
cattle
|
30-50
|
|
30
|
50
|
beef
cattle
|
40-50
|
|
|
50
|
slaughter
cattle
|
|
|
100
|
100
|
heifers
|
|
|
30
|
40
|
sheep
|
70-l00
|
70-l00
|
60-l00
|
60-150
|
breeding
ewes
|
|
|
60**
|
60
|
feeder
lambs
|
|
|
100
|
1
50
|
swine
|
70-l00
|
70-l00
|
150
|
150
|
breeder
sows
|
|
|
|
150
|
finishing
pigs
|
|
|
|
150
|
horses
|
|
|
|
60
|
poultry
|
150-400
|
150-400
|
300
|
300-400
|
chickens
|
150-300
|
|
|
300-400
|
growing
chickens
|
|
|
|
300
|
broiler
chickens
|
|
|
|
300
|
laying
or breeding hens
|
|
|
|
400
|
turkeys
|
300-400
|
|
|
400
|
growing
dogs
|
|
|
|
100
|
