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[HookLine]

America... lead the way in reducing the use of lead in water systems....Lead was banned for use in said systems back in 1985-87....a full 12-14 years prior to "governments that are not that anal of health". such as europe...
Has that government of yours ripped out every piece of pipe.. in every single building in your country? I don't think so...

Has yours? And has it completely banned lead in plumbing applications, or just reduced the allowable level?

14 to 20% of total lead exposure in the United States is attributed to drinking water. This is mainly due to the corrosion of lead from brass water pipes. Lead solder was used in brass pipes until 1988, and until a litigation settlement in 1995, most brass pipes were a 5 to 7% lead alloy. Newer brass water fittings and piping is formed of non-leaded brass, containing 0.25% to 0.5% lead by weight. As of 2005, lead alloy water meters and other parts were still sold.

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In 2006 the Lead Poisoning Reduction Act was introduced to protect children from lead poisoning by requiring all non-home-based child care facilities (i.e., Head Start and kindergartens) to be lead-safe within five years [ie not until 2011].

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The new California law, which takes effect on Jan. 1, 2010, reduces the allowable content in plumbing fixtures and pipes from a maximum 8 percent to a maximum 0.25 percent. The 8 percent lead content limit was created by Congress in 1986 and also included a ban on the use of solder containing more than 0.2 percent lead.

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Both the the Wiki and Waterwebster articles have a lot more interesting stuff on lead in the water supply in the USA.

America also banned the use of lead in paints in the 50's or 60's...maybe earlier

Or maybe not...

Lead-based paint was first identified as the source of deadly childhood poisoning in Australia in 1904.

Subsequently, lead-based paint was banned in Australia and much of Europe in the 1920s, but the United States did not prohibit its residential use for another fifty years. By 1971 it was determined that two hundred children a year died annually in this country as a result of lead poisoning. That year Congress passed the Lead-Based Poisoning Prevention Act, but delayed implementation of its official ban until 1977.

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Probably most of the reduction in lead intake has come from switching to lead free fuel.

[goose eye]

gota laugh bout that lead an youngin. yall got any idea where most toys is comein from. what year
did they outlaw lead paint. thats right they haint. all them youngin cloths with that paint of fish or clowns them shiney seequins an such. - lead. all comein from tiwan an china. fact is they passed a law bout thrift stores salein used youngins clothes cause of that.

yall think for one minute china could give a tinkers dam

so im tole

[Tater]

southpaw sorry your post got taken so far off topic.Members and mods lets get this topic back on track.

[HookLine]

Fair enough, tater.

[southpaw]

I decided against the brass and I built a still using only copper and stainless steel keg. its a 15 gal beer keg with a 2 ft long 2 inch copper column using a tri-clamp connection. I made some birdwatchers and dwwg and everything worked out pretty well. the dwwg had a really strong smell of wheat, almost like a feet smell. so i ran it again and most of the smell is gone. I didnt really care much for it.
Im going to need more practice im sure to get a quality product. right now i have a corn flake wash fermenting.