Pewter to Britannia metal transition (lead-tin to tin-bismuth)

Other things in lead poisoning — where does it come from? Lead from the soil, lead-painted toys, lead-soldered cans — I don't know how people are eating out of the trash can but they may — lead-glazed pottery. Pewter — the old pewter people used to eat off of. Now we use Britannia metal which is a tin-bismuth alloy, but pewter used to be lead-tin. Peeling lead paint. I used to always wonder, why are these kids eating paint? I never ate paint as a kid. Does anyone know why children eat lead paint? Lead oxide is sweet. But we have found other replacements for it. We used lead oxide in paint — we used a tremendous amount of lead oxide, not because it was sweet, but because it has a very high index of refraction and it makes white walls white, and even colored walls it gives them a better sheen.