Expert Declaration

Author: Thiessen KM.

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Year: 2020

Comment:

Abstract / Excerpt:

I am a risk assessment scientist at Oak Ridge Center for Risk Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. For more than 30 years, I have been involved in the evaluation of exposures, doses, and risks to human health from trace levels of contaminants in the environment, including fluoride, and in the use of uncertainty analysis for environmental and health risk assessment.
2. I was asked to apply risk assessment frameworks used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the current scientific literature on fluoride neurotoxicity to determine whether neurotoxicity is a hazard of fluoride exposure, and whether this hazard is a risk at the levels of fluoride added to drinking water for fluoridation (0.7 mg/L).

Citation: Thiessen KM. Expert Declaration.