Aluminum in the environment of man; a review of its hygienic status
Campbell, I.R.; Cass, J.S.; Cholak, J.; Kehoe, R.A.
A.M.A. Archives of Industrial Health 15(5): 359-448
1957
ISSN/ISBN: 0567-3933 PMID: 13410154 Document Number: 8233
The discovery of aluminum, the production of the metal in large quantities, and its use as an extensive and expanding part of industrial and household materials and equipment are essentially modern developments. Despite this fact, human experience with the metal and with its chemical compounds and preparations has been widespread and intimate. Only in industrial experience has there been any basis for the opinion that the aluminum-containing earths or the metal itself may possess properties that may be inherently dangerous to man. Even here, difficulty has been encountered rarely and only under conditions of unusual urgency for production (as in war time), and these sporadic difficulties, in the form of "Shaver's disease" and the "aluminum lung," have been such as to be highly questionable, with respect to the role played by aluminum in the mixture of raw materials and industrial products that find their way, via dusty atmosphere, into the human respiratory apparatus. Moreover, these industrial hazards have been amenable to control by appropriate measures of industrial hygiene.
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