I haven't read it, but the book History of Toxicology and Environmental Health [0] would say that pipes were not a problem. Preparing food and wine in lead cont

I haven't read it, but the book History of Toxicology and Environmental Health [0] would say that pipes were not a problem. Preparing food and wine in lead containers could have been a problem, but it wasn't until centuries after the Roman Empire "fell" that doctors even described the symptoms of lead poisoning. And to throw in another quote from a scholarly source, "Water from the river Anio, which fed two of Rome's principal aqueducts, the Aqua Anio Vetus and Aqua Anio Novus, was particularly hard and conveyed high levels of dissolved calcium carbonate. Indeed, Frontinus complains in his treatise on the aqueducts of Rome, that "the accumulation of deposit, which sometimes hardens into a crust, contracts the channel of the water" (CXXII.1)." [1] [0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128153390/toxicology-in-antiquity https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128153390/toxicology-... [1] https://penelope.uchicago.edu/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html https://penelope.uchicago.edu/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/lead...