Selenium in solder. Is it safe?

[coprolite72]

I am looking for a food safe solder. I have found a solder that is mostly tin and copper but has a little selenium. It is ASF-61 complient. To use or not to use, that is the question...

[Prairiepiss]

Can you give us some more info on the solder? Manufacture product code? Maybe a link to it on the interwebs.

Where are you located?

Most use a silver plumbers solder. For soft solder. And a hard solder like staysilv.

[coprolite72]

The Solder is Lenox WS15037 Lead free solder. The msds is here...
http://www.fastenal.com/web/msds/getmsds.ex?sku=0803477" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
and there is a product webpage here...
http://www.fastenal.com/web/products/de ... 477&ucst=t" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
It's a plumbing solder for use with copper pipe. I'd like to think if it's for use with plumbing, it would be fairly safe. However, I am not sure how it would react with the EtOH as opposed to H2O.

[rad14701]

The Solder is Lenox WS15037 Lead free solder. The msds is here...
http://www.fastenal.com/web/msds/getmsds.ex?sku=0803477" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
and there is a product webpage here...
http://www.fastenal.com/web/products/de ... 477&ucst=t" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
It's a plumbing solder for use with copper pipe. I'd like to think if it's for use with plumbing, it would be fairly safe. However, I am not sure how it would react with the EtOH as opposed to H2O.

I would not be concerned about 0.05% Selenium... I seem to recall that most of the Selenium gets dissipated during the heating process anyway... Some of our foods even contain more Selenium than that... But don't take my word for it, do some additional web research... It may have even been posted here in these forums previously...