[Sca-cooks] Metal Poisoning from the fork

[James Chevallier]

 There are two different issues here. The one is that the very useful links we just got on lead poisoning suggest that the lead in the Roman pipes was not sufficient to poison the population (rather it was the way defrutum and other reduced wines were prepared that raised the lead level to a dangerous point). The other is that the aqueduct in the lovely town of Segovia comes right into it, so I don't know how much piping is needed.

 

Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Lord Williams <lordhunt at gmail.com>
To: sca-cooks <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org> I was not aware that aqueducts had metal. That is Segovia is still running today and people go to it to fetch drinking water all the time. You would think that if the water contained metal poisoning the water would be banned._______________________________________________Sca-cooks mailing listSca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.orghttp://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org