Fluoride
Sources
- Aluminium cookware and utensils
- Certain drinking water
- Certain fish/shellfish
- Combustion of coal (containing fluoride impurities)
- Dental products - toothpaste, mouthwash, fluoride varnish and others
- Fluoridated water
- Fluorinated pharmaceuticals
- Grape products, dried fruit, dried beans, cocoa powder, walnuts (all from fluoride pesticide use)
- Glass-etching or chrome-cleaning agents
- Industrial workplace settings
- Mechanically deboned meat
- Manufacturing processes - steel, copper, nickel, glass, brick, ceramic, glues and adhesives
- Processed beverages - beer, wine, fizzy drinks, certain sports drinks, sugar/fructose drinks
- Pesticides
- Tea drinks - tea plants absorb fluoride from the soil
