How worried should you be about lead from Aldi taps?
- Written by Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide
If you have bought an Aldi “The Spiral Spring Mixer Tap” you should not use water from it for drinking or cooking until investigations of reported lead contamination is complete.
What we know
The media reports that water passing through the tap has up to 15 times the lead levels allowed in Australian drinking water (maximum 0.01...