Recent Epidemiological Studies on Boron Exposure – Contradiction between Hazard and Risk-Based Assessments

Beneficial roles of boron supplementation in the ration of rams on productive activity and semen quality

“…Individual motility % Live /dead ratio % (2015) found that the low dose of boric acid (6 ng/ml) is not toxic and might be a necessary factor for osteogenic differentiation and induction of early matrix deposition in rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs). Table 3displayed that there were no significant differences between the boronand control groups on the sperm individual motilities and live/dead percentages.Studies on human population exposed to boron at dose of 6.7 mg/day did not find significant alterations in human fertility (Bolt, 2015;Duydu et al, 2016 andÜstündağ, 2017). Similar observations dealing with boron and semen parameters have been reported no correlation between boron in urine, blood and semen parameters, although there was a no significant increase in the percentage of normal sperm morphology in workers exposed to boron versus a control population (Robbins et al, 2010 and Duydu et al, 2011).…”

Validation of Boron Analytical Methods on Standard Reference Material Tomato Leaves from NIST No. 1573a with Isothermal Distillation by UV-Vis Spectrophotometry

“…Boron, the element which has the characteristics between those of metal and nonmetal, is the only metal in Group IIIA at the Periodic Table and the fifth element of the group. Boron has benefits for plants, animals, and the human body (Khaliq et al, 2018), however, if the accumulation of the boron which enters the body is excess, it can be a potential hazard (Duydu, 2017). It is necessary to analyze the existence of boron in the food.…”