“…It is found in kitchen utensils, packaging, tap water flocculants, food additives, antiperspirants, and antacid medication, for example. 26 In a report on the studies of the United States Food and Drug Administration, Priest 27 estimated that daily aluminum intake is of the order of 10 mg in populations with a Western-style diet. Antiacid drugs, produced from clays very similar to those preferred by geophagous individuals, may supply up to 1 g of aluminum per day, about ten times as much as a normal diet.…”