Also Seen: Lead and Rome Redux

io9 has a post on Romans’ use of lead (acetate) as an artificial sweetener:

• The first artificial sweetener poisoned lots of Romans

… which really should be read with Kristina Kilgrove’s post as a potential grain of salt:

• Lead Poisoning in Rome – The Skeletal Evidence

… and if you have time, some of our previous coverage of this sort of thing:

• Damnatio ad Metallum (October, 2010)

• Roman Wine (June, 2006)