What does the evidence say about aluminum in people?

Reference values

EFSA in 2008, recorded in the corpus from the abstract and the agency news page, set a tolerable weekly intake of 1 mg/kg body weight per week. EFSA 2008.

The corpus records an ATSDR 2008 intermediate and chronic oral minimal risk level of 1 mg Al/kg/day, taken from the minimal-risk-level table in the saved profile. It also records that a figure footnote in that PDF gives different numbers (0.3 and 0.9). This site uses the table value the corpus checked, and it does not treat the footnote as a second official value. ATSDR aluminum profile.

IARC, as cited by ATSDR 2008 and recorded in the corpus, classifies occupational aluminum production in Group 1. Whether aluminum metal itself is unclassified was not verified and is not stated. A WHO note that 0.1 mg/L or less is achievable at large treatment facilities is recorded via ATSDR. A 0.2 mg/L figure for small facilities was not verified and is not stated. WHO GDWQ.

A JECFA provisional tolerable weekly intake was marked unverified in the corpus because the WHO technical report was not opened. It is not stated here. No CDC National Report table for aluminum was in the chemical list checked for this corpus.

What is not in this corpus

Vaccine aluminum quantities and a method for testing vaccine aluminum in people are not in the saved sources. Deferoxamine studies in dialysis patients are on the deferoxamine page. They are treatment series, not a population reference range.

Related pages

• Do vaccines contain aluminum, and how is that tested?
• Deferoxamine

Sources

1. EFSA 2008 aluminum opinion, doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2008.754
2. ATSDR Toxicological Profile for Aluminum, September 2008
3. WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality

Heavy Metal Index

Heavy Metal Index: Aluminum. This Heavy Metal Index URL returned HTTP 200 on 15 October 2026. Figures on this page are not copied from that index. They come from the sources named above.