The Golden Age, “Do Aluminum Kitchen Utensils Have “A Clean Bill of Health”?”
“The American Medical Association at Chicago, Ill., was next mentioned. Then the United States Public Health Service was included in this investigation. The London Lancet also issued statements giving aluminum a clean bill of health.”
A rebuttal of an article by Albert A. Hopkins in Scientific American of March 1929 which had found aluminium cookware harmless. Betts lists the bodies Hopkins relied on — the manufacturer's works at New Kensington, the American Medical Association, the United States Public Health Service, The Lancet and the Mellon Institute — and argues that they should have been ignored in favour of his own book.
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Confidence note. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 754-755; the issue's cover page (printed page 737) lists 'ALUMINUM POISONING' among the contents. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Scan provenance. Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume X ... August 21, 1929 ... Number 259'.
Notes. This article is direct evidence that the magazine knew the position of the AMA, the United States Public Health Service and The Lancet on aluminium cookware in 1929 and printed a rejection of it. It also reproduces a refusal letter from the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association dated 19 June 1928.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-ga-1929-0821-betts-clean-bill