At 02:39 AM 10/25/2007, you wrote:

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If possible, I avoid two-piece, hard-shell encapsulated supplements or I pull them apart, take the contents, throw the capsule away.  Capsules made from animal gelatin are made from the hide, hair, horns and hooves which are high in fluorides.   Learning this, thirty years ago, I haven't touched "Jello" or any other animal-source gelatin since the seventies and for the same reason.  High in fluoride.  And, unless the mfgr can guarantee the material from which the capsule was made does not contain fluorides, I'm even skeptical of some so-called "vege caps."   

This site suggests there is no significant difference
in the fluoride content of meat (and thus capsules)
from fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1034/j.1600-0528.2002.00002.x?journalCode=com

Anyway, how much fluoride would be in non-veggie gellatin
capsules if the capsule incredient had ten times the normal
amount of fluoride?

CALCULATION:
(1) Weight of one empty gellatin capsule
0.063 g [Size 2] to 0.097 g [Size 0] per capsule
[Source: http://www.indiamart.com/chemcaps/]

(2) Weight of 4 capsules
0.252 to 0.388 g

(3) Major assumption: capsule contains 10ppm fluoride
This would be 10 times as much as in fluoridated water.

(4) Fluoride from 4 capsules, worst case
0.388 g * 10 / 1,000,000 = 3.88 millionths of a gram of fluoride

(5) Fluoride in 8 cups of fluoridated water, for comparison
8 cup * 8 ounces/cup * 28.349 g/ounce = 1814 millionths of a gram of fluoride

RESULT:
Four non-veggie gellatin capsules increase fluoride intake by 0.2 of 1%,
at most.  Equivalent to drinking 0.14 ounces more fluoridated water
(about 1 teaspoon of water).  Or, you get 500 times more fluoride from
drinking water than capsules.


Floyd
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