Word: ingesting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...National Air Pollution Control Administration and the Environmental Control Administration. An intense activist, Johnson, 48, spends much of his time reminding Americans that "the human environment consists not only of land, air and water that give us life but also includes the food we eat, the drugs we ingest, and all the thousands of products which we consume or use in this complicated world." Johnson and his staff of 231 can use lawsuits to gain compliance with new federal antipollution laws. But he prefers to use his powers of persuasion...
Drinking a Tubful. Opponents point out that fluorides can be poisonous, and indeed are used in some pesticides. True, but the determining factor is the concentration. A 150-lb. man will get sick if he ingests .25 gm. of fluoride in one day, very sick on 1 gm., and will die with 4 to 8 gm. To ingest even that first .25 gm., he would have to drink more than half a bathtubful of water (42 gal.) containing 1 p.p.m., or, for 1 gm., more than three bathtubfuls (or 276 gal.). Long before he could become ill from the fluoride...