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Dave Fawthrop
 
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Default Safe to drink boiled water from hot tap?

On Fri, 05 May 2006 08:56:41 +0100, David Hansen
wrote:


|Note that there is nothing to stop poison being delivered to your
|house via the mains water supply. This has happened but there is
|little concern about it.

Poison/Toxins are all a matter of dose. In a *very* occasional sad case
people have died from drinking fantastic quantities of water, which caused
others no problems.
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