This section is dedicated to the National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) long involvement with the issue of fluoride's toxicity. The NTP is the scientific research arm for U.S. regulatory agencies. It comes under the aegis of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The NIEHS, in turn, comes under the umbrella of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). -Updated May 2, 2023 (EC).
On March 15, 2023, the following documents were released by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) as part of an agreement under the ongoing Toxic Substances & Control Act (TSCA) lawsuit against the EPA on fluoride’s neurotoxicity.
Efforts were made by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others, to thwart their release.
An article by Dan Ross, published on March 14, 2023, the day before NTP released the documents, gives the background.
NTP has the following, as well as other documents, online at their site.
See more information in the press release titled Suppressed Government Report Finding Fluoride Can Reduce Children’s IQ Made Public Under EPA Lawsuit issued by the Fluoride Action Network.
Documents Provided to the NTP Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC)
and BSC Working Group (1,573 pages).
Contents – Document Title |
PDF Page # |
| DRAFT NTP Monograph on the State of the Science Concerning Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects: A Systematic Review (September 2022 version) | 1 |
| Reviewers’ Comments and NTP Authors’ Responses on the DRAFT State of the Science Monograph | 291 |
| DRAFT Meta-Analysis Manuscript (July 2022 version) | 465 |
| DRAFT Meta-Analysis Manuscript – Supplemental Materials (July 2022 version) | 503 |
| Reviewers’ Comments and NTP Authors’ Responses on the DRAFT Meta-Analysis Manuscript | 567 |
Supplemental Materials |
655 |
| DRAFT NTP Monograph on the State of the Science Concerning Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects: A Systematic Review (May 2022 Version) | 656 |
| DRAFT NTP Monograph on the State of the Science Concerning Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects: A Systematic Review (October 5, 2021 Version) | 944 |
| DRAFT NTP Monograph on the Systematic Review of Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects (September 16, 2020 Version) | 1195 |
| DRAFT NIEHS/DNTP Response to the Review of the Revised NTP Monograph on the Systematic Review of Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects: A Letter Report (NASEM Comments on the State of Science Monograph) | 1515 |
| DRAFT NIEHS/NTP Response to the Review of the Revised NTP Monograph on the Systematic Review of Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects: A Letter Report (NASEM Comments on the Meta-Analysis Manuscript) | 1554 |