The aluminum reclamation industry work environment: are unidentified neurotoxins present?(Editorial)

From: Archives of Environmental Health | Date: September 1, 1998| Author: Langer, Arthur M. | Copyright information

Dr. Kaye Kilburn's contribution in this issue ("Neurobehavioral Impairment and Symptoms Associated with Aluminum Remelting") conveys a sense of workforce exposure to both new and unidentified agents in the aluminum-reclamation industry. His clinical findings are provocative. The questions he raises are as follows: (a) has the aluminum recycling program spawned a wave of diseases observed only rarely in the primary aluminum-producing industry? and (b) has an aluminum compound, or p...

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