The National Toxicology Program

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).

NTP 2020-2021: Most Referenced Documents

For those who follow this issue, the following documents will be referenced frequently.

NTP statement and reports
NASEM
(National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine)
Feb 9, 2021 NASEM. Second peer-review of the revised Draft NTP Monograph on the Systematic Review of Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects: A Letter Report.
http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/2021.nas-review-of-ntp-second-draft.feb-9.pdf
Feb 9, 2021 NTP. Private statement on ending its systematic review on fluoride’s neurotoxicity and converting their four-year effort into a “state of the science” document. The difference: a systematic review comes to a conclusion on whether the substance is a hazard, whereas a “state of the science” report does not.
http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/niehs-ntp.statement.feb-9.2021.ocr_.pdf
Sept 16, 2020 NTP: Revised Draft Monograph on the Systematic Review of Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects.
http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/ntp.revised-monograph.9-16-2020.pdf
March 5, 2020 NASEM. First peer review of the Draft NTP Monograph on the Systematic Review of Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects.
http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/nas-review-of-ntp-review.march-5-2020.pdf
Sept 6, 2019 NTP. First Draft NTP Monograph on the Systematic Review of Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects.
http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/2019.ntp_.draft-fluoride-systematic-review.online-Oct-22.pdf


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