Predjudice against copper materials?

Donna, I also have been watching this thread. This is the first I’ve
heard off any restriction on the sale or usage of copper on anything
that touches bare skin. I like working with copper and German or
nickel silver. I know that some people are allergic to some metals
and if they use that particular metal they coat it with something. I
see a lot of copper still being used and for sale around the tourist
places in the southwest part of Colorado and Taos, Santa Fe. Maybe we
are just lucky and haven’t been caught yet.

RCP

Donna, It really surprises me to hear so much on copper being toxic.
What are your water pipes in your house made from? Does that mean
that you should not hold a penny in your hand? Do you know that most
of the skin tightening creams (women probably know more about this
cream) has copper in them as the active ingredient? Do you know that
many apple farmers use a copper based spray on their apple trees to
help produce better apples? Copper is one of the few metals that are
self-cleaning. What that means is the oxidation formed on copper
cleans the copper and the environment touching it. Other words you
wipe off or wear off the oxidation and it produces more oxidation to
keep the copper under the oxidation clean. Just surprises me why
people think copper is so bad. I have been working with it for over
thirty years. Check ups with the doctors and even having tests on me
to see if it has caused any ill effects always shows nothing going
on. Sure there are probably people that it might be toxic to but so
are dandelions.

Warren Townsend