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Is there a health hazard in using aluminum cookware and bakeware

Is there a health hazard in using aluminum cookware and bakeware?

None whatsoever. Over the years medical experts and food authorities have repudiated this notion over and over. A Food and Drug Administration Consumer Memo reports in part: "…Aluminum occurs naturally in many foods.

Aluminum compounds have a number of uses as direct food ingredients, as for example in alum baking powder and in the use of alum in pickles to keep them firm. These uses are generally recognized as safe by scientists qualified to evaluate the safety of food additives.… Many scientific studies have determined that the amount of aluminum ingested as a result of preparing foods in aluminum cookware is so small as to be of no significance in comparison with the amount of aluminum consumed from other sources."

 Category  Source  Mg/day
 Food  Natural content  3-10
 Intentional additives  FDA approved compounds  25-50
 Unintentional additives  Aluminium products  2.5
 Water  Natural contents  1
 Drug  Antacids  50-1000+
   Buffered aspirin  10-100+
 * Seymour G. Epstein "Aluminum and Health", May 1984