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Maybe don't buy shit from china. Just a thought.

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>There could be one sitting on your desk or sitting in the bottom of your gym bag. But people should steer clear of using the same metal water bottle for years, due to the risk of life-threatening heavy metal poisoning, medics warned today. It comes as a Taiwanese man died from pneumonia—a deadly lung condition—due to toxic metal exposure from using a metallic drinking vessel. According to local media, the unnamed man had been experiencing health problems for around a year with blood tests confirming lead poisoning. While trying to discover what could have caused the high levels of toxins in his blood, medics learned that he had been using the same thermos every day for a decade.

Maybe don't buy shit from china. Just a thought. Archive: https://archive.today/KWhua From the post: >>There could be one sitting on your desk or sitting in the bottom of your gym bag. But people should steer clear of using the same metal water bottle for years, due to the risk of life-threatening heavy metal poisoning, medics warned today. It comes as a Taiwanese man died from pneumonia—a deadly lung condition—due to toxic metal exposure from using a metallic drinking vessel. According to local media, the unnamed man had been experiencing health problems for around a year with blood tests confirming lead poisoning. While trying to discover what could have caused the high levels of toxins in his blood, medics learned that he had been using the same thermos every day for a decade.

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[–] • 2 pts

If you are worried about lead there are swabs you can buy that are activated with vinegar. I have moved a lot and test stuff all the time. You can test just about anything with the swabs there is just an extra step with the ones I use if you aren't testing paint.

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Yeah, there was another article about a woman a few months back where she started crappy and linked it to her new "Stanley" water bottle. She used some of those test strips to show that it was leaking a ton of lead.

[–] • 1 pt

You know I'm trying to by less shit on Amazon and here I am buying water testing kits to make sure my water bottle isn't killing me.

[–] • 1 pt

I've been handing lead solder for decades. I'm sure my blood levels are high, but how much lead do these cheap-shit-china bottles have in them?

[–] • 1 pt

They probably solder the bottom of the bottle on with lead solder, leaving quite a lot inside the container. Then people put slightly acidic liquids in there, which dissolve the lead into solution which is then drunk. That would be a much quicker way to lead poisoning than just handling lead... as long as you're not eating the solder.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah I know, but still.

These are some shit-level bottles. I've had an ancient Stanley thermos (a real one, made here) for decades. Did a lead test on it some time ago...nothing.

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Drinking it on the daily for a decade is probably much worse than handling it and being around it when soldering as long as you even have a kind of half assed vent hood/fan with filter.

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f.....fan.........filter?

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah, it helps concentrate the fumes directly into your nostrils.