Mass intoxication from accidental overfluoridation of drinking water.
May 1981
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Clinical Toxicology
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Waldbott GL.
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18(5):531-41.
The literature reveals several episodes of acute mass poisoning due to sodium fluoride which had been mistaken for flour, sugar, and baking powder and added to food [1]. The number of persons affected ranged from 5 to 280. The most severe accident -with 47 deaths occurred in Salem, Oregon, where a helper in the kitchen mistakenly had added 17 Ib of a roach powder containing 90% sodium fluoride to a 10-gal mixture of scrambled eggs. In other cases the doses of fluoride involved were estimated to