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Document ID ca-gcdwqgtd-2011-06-20-3 Title Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality: Guideline Technical Document – Fluoride URL https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/healthy-living/guidelines-canadian-drinking-water-quality-guideline-technical-document-fluoride/page-4-guidelines-canadian-drinking-water-quality-guideline-technical-document-fluoride.html Jurisdiction /ca Subdomain(s) Drinking water Language en Status completed Analyzed at 2026-03-18 13:36:37.403125+00:00 Relevance Sets the Maximum Acceptable Concentration (MAC) for fluoride in drinking water.

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Req ID Category Intent Legal Status Name Subdomain(s) Context Conditions Confidence
#Q001administrativehealthrecommendedFluoride intake control effortsdrinking waterHowever, the Committee encouraged efforts to control fluoride intake from sources such as toothpaste ingestion and efforts to obtain other up-to-date estimates of daily fluoride intake in Canada.medium

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#P001chemicalhealthguidelineFluoridedrinking waterunknown0.9 mg/LHealth Canada has calculated a health-based value of 0.9 mg/L for fluoride in drinking water, which is deemed protective against any potential adverse health effect from fluoride.high
#P002chemicalhealthguidelineFluoridedrinking waterMAC1.5 mg/LBased on the health-based value, the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water has chosen to risk manage this value to a MAC of 1.5 mg/L for fluoride in drinking waterThe maximum acceptable concentration is established to ensure levels of fluoride do not exceed this value in treated drinking water.high

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