Aluminium and aluminium compounds - Health-based recommended occupational exposure limit

At request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Health Council of the Netherlands recommends health-based occupational exposure limits for the concentration of toxic substances in the air at the workplace. These recommendations are made by the Council's Dutch Expert Committee on Occupational Safety (DECOS).
The present advice on aluminium and aluminium compounds was prepared in cooperation with the Nordic Expert Group for Criteria Documents of Health Risks from Chemicals (NEG), an advisory body of the Nordic countries.
The conclusions in this advice are based on scientific publications which appeared before April 2009.

Committee

• G.J. Mulder, Emeritus Professor of toxicology, Leiden University, Leiden, chairman
• R.B. Beems, Toxicologic pathologist, formerly employed at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven
• P.J. Boogaard, Toxicologist, Shell International BV, The Hague
• J.J.A.M. Brokamp, Social and Economic Council, The Hague, advisor
• D.J.J. Heederik, Professor of health risk analysis, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht
• R. Houba
  Occupational hygienist, Netherlands Expertise Centre for Occupational Respiratory Disorders (NECORD), Utrecht
• H. van Loveren, Professor of immunotoxicology, Maastricht University, Maastricht; National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven
• T.M. Pal, Occupational physician, Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases, Amsterdam
• A.H. Piersma, Professor of reproductive toxicology, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven
• H.P.J. te Riele, Professor of molecular biology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam
• I.M.C.M. Rietjens, Professor of toxicology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen
• H. Roelfzema, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Hague, advisor
• G.M.H. Swaen, Epidemiologist, Dow Benelux N.V., Terneuzen
• R.C.H. Vermeulen, Epidemiologist/environmental hygienist, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht
• R.A. Woutersen, Toxicologic pathologist, TNO Quality of Life, Zeist; Professor of translational toxicology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen
• P.B. Wulp, Occupational physician, Labour Inspectorate, Groningen
• J.T.J. Stouten, Health Council of the Netherlands, The Hague, scientific secretary