Posted by Larry Hoover on June 16, 2003, at 15:24:35
In reply to Re: vitamin and mineral supplement for mad pigs » Larry Hoover, posted by avid abulia on June 16, 2003, at 15:07:19
> > Actually, the UL is set at 20 mg, but the scientific evidence is that level is probably about 1/1000 of the observable adverse effects level.
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> > There is no currently accepted "essential intake" level for boron, so they fudged all the various bits of info they had, and built in major UFs (uncertainty factors). It's actually a bit comical how they played with the numbers (I just read the whole thing last night).
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> > Lar
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> interesting... i can`t recall my source that said 9mg was the safe UL, but if you can remember your source, i would like to read that as well.
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> ~AAhttp://www.nap.edu/books/0309072794/html/
You'll have to select chapter 13, and scroll through about half-way.
There are a number of other such references for other nutrients at:
http://search.nap.edu/nap-cgi/napsearch.cgi?term=Tolerable+Daily+IntakeVery conservative science......
Lar
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