Wow, didn't expect to see that safety label on my new Perlick faucet boxes

LordUlrich said:

I seem to remember something about the amount of lead in a brass pipe fitting not being enough to be a problem if you ate the whole fitting at once. the reality is a tiny amount of lead will be leached from the inside surface. The acidity of beer will increase the leaching but it is still a miniscule amount. There are many other things to worry about in your water that will kill you far faster than a brass fitting.

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True...unless you live in California...

Europe is also onboard with this no lead thing....we are working with a big name computer company right now and they use our pumps for cooling mainframes that process credit card transactions.....they are making a new system right now for Europe and the bronze housing in our pump is to have less the 5% lead to be acceptable...the next lowest alloy of bronze we can get from the standard 6-8% lead now drops it down to 0.5%.....anything in between would have been a custom mix and more money
Machining this stuff is hard on the tooling...have to go slow to keep the heat down now....takes more time and price goes up....there's no easy way out of things.

This thread reminded me of a very interesting article I read recently:

America's Real Criminal Element: Lead

New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing.

By Kevin Drum | January/February 2013 Issue

http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline

If you are worried, then try the Palmer pickling approach to remove the lead
http://www.howtobrew.com/appendices/appendixB.html

I presume they use those stickers just to cover themselves, I guess the taps are imported from China, so they cant be 100% on whats been used?