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Race, women and health · Claim record

Aluminium cookware does contribute a share of dietary aluminium — the European Food Safety Authority lists 'food contact materials such as pots, pans and foil' among the sources, alongside natural occurrence and food additives — and names cereals and cereal products, vegetables and beverages, not cookware, as the main dietary contributors. Nothing located in this research supports the magazine's claims that cooking in aluminium causes cancer or acute poisoning.

Claim ID claim-attitudes-aluminium-independent-contextConcerns 15 July 2008Context
Context · 15 July 2008 Supported

Aluminium cookware does contribute a share of dietary aluminium — the European Food Safety Authority lists 'food contact materials such as pots, pans and foil' among the sources, alongside natural occurrence and food additives — and names cereals and cereal products, vegetables and beverages, not cookware, as the main dietary contributors. Nothing located in this research supports the magazine's claims that cooking in aluminium causes cancer or acute poisoning. European Food Safety Authority, 15 July 2008The Golden Age, 10 April 1935

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European Food Safety Authority, “EFSA advises on the safety of aluminium in food”

15 July 2008 · European Food Safety Authority

“Aluminium in foods originates from its natural occurrence, from the use of food additives containing aluminium and from the presence of aluminium in food contact materials such as pots, pans and foil.”

EFSA's announcement of a tolerable weekly intake of 1 milligram of aluminium per kilogram of body weight. It identifies cereals and cereal products, vegetables and beverages as the main dietary contributors, and says intake may exceed the tolerable weekly intake in a significant part of the European population.

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Provenance and verification note

Confidence note. Page opened on 19 September 2026 and the quoted sentence, the tolerable weekly intake figure and the publication date confirmed.

Notes. Included for proportion, not as a rebuttal in kind. EFSA addresses total dietary aluminium and does not attribute cancer, 'trembles' or food poisoning to cooking utensils, which were the Golden Age's claims.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-efsa-2008-aluminium

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The Golden Age, “Not Selling Cooking Utensils”

10 April 1935 · p.440 · Golden Age Publishing Company, Brooklyn, New York

“The Golden Age does not care what kind of cooking utensils you use. It isn't even concerned if you insist upon using aluminum of any kind. That is your privilege and responsibility. But it will not cease to warn those who are interested in their health that aluminum is injurious to the health in numerous and various ways. There is no question about this whatever.”

An unsigned item under the standing head 'Poisoning Department'. It was written in answer to a notice in Scientific American that the United States Federal Trade Commission had obtained a stipulation from a cookware seller to stop claiming that aluminium utensils cause cancer; the Golden Age reproduces that notice and rejects it.

Scan of original

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Confidence note. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 440. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.

Scan provenance. Internet Archive item '1935TheGoldenAgeMagazine', uploaded by [email protected] to the 'faithmagazines' collection and marked public domain. Page number from the item's _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XVI ... Wednesday, April 10, 1935 ... Number 406' and the running heads on neighbouring leaves.

Notes. The facing page (439) carries reader items headed 'How About It?' and 'Thumbs Down on Aluminum at Fresno'. The same 1935 volume carries further aluminium items on pages 341-343 (27 February 1935) and an article by Betts on diphtheria immunisation on pages 793-795 (11 September 1935).

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-ga-1935-0410-not-selling-utensils

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