Did you not actually read that article? The title is "Lead Paint, Sweet It Ain't", and its entire purpose is to debunk the myth of sweet tasting paint. Even t

Did you not actually read that article? The title is "Lead Paint, Sweet It Ain't", and its entire purpose is to debunk the myth of sweet tasting paint. Even there, the claims that lead paint sometimes contained small amounts of lead acetate are unsupported. It's true that heavy metal salts have a long history of use as siccatives in oil-based finishes, but the vast majority of lead-based driers were the oxides, because they could serve double duty as pigments. And even if lead acetate were to be used in paint, it wouldn't taste sweet, because it would be bound in the polymer matrix (as your article points out), and there wouldn't be enough of it anyway. Look at the SDS for any oil based finish, and you'll see that metallic diers are added in just tiny amounts. Regardless, I have never seen historical or scientific evidence that suggests lead acetate was used in any significant amount in paint. If you know of such evidence, I would genuinely love to see it.