frank? anybody? nobody seemed to react to these statements posted here. excpet me, that is !
did you all miss it or are you just tired of dealing with it? i'm very concerned by it because the quantities identified by the epa (not that i hold them in higher esteem than the skunk in my yard !) and my daily consumption converted from 20ppms/8oz to mg are like 1500% different ! hard for me to imagine that the epa could really be that much off ! and i'm thinking that maybe the conversion equasion was wrong. could somebody help please? below is my original post.... thanks, angel ----- Original Message ----- From: angel nest To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 7:50 PM Subject: Re: silver toxicity / Frank again But Frank... I think I might be in trouble.... What about this statement in one of Michael's emails... >>>The US-EPA publishes an oral reference dose (RfD) that is based on a threshold for certain toxic effects such as cellular necrosis. In units of micrograms per kg per day and is an estimate of the maximum amount of daily silver exposure that is not associated with any deleterious effects over a lifetime. Current RfD for oral silver exposure is 5 micrograms per kg per day. An average (european) 70 kg man: = 350 µg/day>>> That means that my 4.8mg-4800mcg daily is about 1500% more than the safe daily dose !! I'm about 50kg ~105lbs, so I should only be consuming 250mcg, right ??? Or am I missing something ??? Thanks again, Angel From: FRANK CUNS-RIAL Angel To convert part per million (by weight) into miligrams in 8 oz. do the following: One fluid oz.of CS equals about 30 grams. 8 oz. of CS is therefore 240 grams in which you have 20 ppm. The grams of silver contained in your 8 oz, 20x240/1000000=0.0048 gr or 4.8 miligrams. This asumes that the specific gravity of a ppm CS dispersion is 1.00. Hope it hels Frank Cuns-Ria
