E173=Aluminium
(As a food additive it is used solely for external decoration where it can be found in the covering of dragées and the decoration of sugar-coated flour confectionery, in cake decorations and to give a silvery finish to pills and tablets)
-an accumulation of aluminium in the cells of the nervous system could be potentially toxic.
- It is found in abnormally high levels in the brain cells of Alzheimer''s disease sufferers, accumulated in the neurofibrillary tangles and neuritic plaques,
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- a high aluminium intake may have adverse effects on the
-metabolism of phosphorous and calcium in the human body
-and may induce or intensify SKELETAL ABNORMALITIES such as osteoporosis