UseLess - aluminium phosphate

I have a t-shirt that has the words Use and Less on the front followed by a list of things that we should use less of. I am going to try to find out about each and every one of them and you my dear reader are coming along for the ride.

Starting with aluminium phosphate which as far as I can tell is used as a sort of baking powder.

Hmmm does not sound that bad we eat a fair amount of aluminium anyway and it occurs naturally in the soil. I am not sure that it is really that much of a problem

Having said that sodium aluminium phosphate or E451 is banned in some countries so that may no be good.

There are some links to Alzheimer's and Osteoporosis but these have not been proven. Some studies in the 1920s involved mice being fed bread using aluminium phosphate as a raising agent and these show effects on reproduction and infant mortality but just feeding it to rats appeared not to have any affect.

http://www.foodreactions.org/allergy/additives/500.html http://www.intox.org/databank/documents/chemical/alumsalt/cie193.htm http://www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/jecmono/v17je26.htm