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Migration of aluminum from food contact materials to food—a health risk for consumers? Part I of III: exposure to aluminum, release of aluminum, tolerable weekly intake (TWI), toxicological effects…

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Sciences Europe, April 2017
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Title
Migration of aluminum from food contact materials to food—a health risk for consumers? Part I of III: exposure to aluminum, release of aluminum, tolerable weekly intake (TWI), toxicological effects of aluminum, study design, and methods
Published in
Environmental Sciences Europe, April 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12302-017-0116-y
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Authors

Thorsten Stahl, Sandy Falk, Alice Rohrbeck, Sebastian Georgii, Christin Herzog, Alexander Wiegand, Svenja Hotz, Bruce Boschek, Holger Zorn, Hubertus Brunn

Abstract

In spite of the prevalence of aluminum in nature, no organism has been found to date which requires this element for its biological functions. The possible health risks to human beings resulting from uptake of aluminum include detrimental effects to the hemopoietic system, the nervous system and bones. Aluminum is used in many fields and occurs in numerous foodstuffs. Food contact materials containing aluminum represent an anthropogenic source of dietary aluminum. As a result of their frequent use in private households a study was undertaken to detect migration of this metal to foodstuffs from drink containers, coffee pots, grill pans, and camping cookware made of aluminum. An estimate of the health risk to consumers is calculated, based on the tolerable weekly intake (TWI) specified by the European Food Safety Authority of 1 mg/kg body weight for all groups of people. In some instances the TWI is significantly exceeded, dependent upon the food contact material and the food itself.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 190 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 17 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 7%
Researcher 13 7%
Student > Master 8 4%
Other 6 3%
Other 22 12%
Unknown 111 58%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 8%
Chemistry 15 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 3%
Other 25 13%
Unknown 115 61%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 September 2023.
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#1,466,353
of 24,411,829 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Sciences Europe
#83
of 543 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,269
of 314,005 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Sciences Europe
#3
of 9 outputs
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