Is there a lead concern with neck foil?

[Michael_Lewis]

My ultimate goal is to only drink bottles sealed with wax capsules, ideally exclusively from the Jura.

[Marcus_Goodfellow]

I mean… unless you are child or perhaps pregnant or nursing; the tiny amount of lead really wouldn’t be an issue anyways.

Actually, the FDA did tests and found that there were measurable amounts of lead in the first glass or two poured. That’s what led [sic] to the ban. They found that wiping with a damp towel got rid of most of it.

Since lead is a cumulative poison, better not to take in any you don’t have to.

Especially since we spent years putting it into gas and then combusting it into the atmosphere…

[Marcus_Goodfellow]

If you have lead capsules, please RECYCLE them (at nearby scrap place most likely), as – like mercury – you don’t want this ending up in the trash stream.

This is really good advice and I hadn’t even stopped to consider it. Thx

+1