http://www.businessweek.com/ap/finan.../D8SPQI101.htm
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The warning about Paulson brand chips -- used in many casinos and sold at retail to gamblers -- came a day after ABC affiliate KNXV-TV in Phoenix aired a story about the potential contamination.
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The television station had 200 of the poker chips tested by a private laboratory, and swabs
showed all had levels of surface lead exceeding the EPA limit of 0.06 percent. More than half maxed out the swab's 10 percent limit, which is more than 160 times the federal limit.
More detailed tests in 40 chips for total lead showed that all tested positive, with the lowest having four times the EPA limit and
one chip used at a Las Vegas casino containing 45 percent total lead.
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I thought this was pretty surprising, you'd think something like this would have been discovered earlier. I'm personally more concerned with all the other junk that I'd get on my hands after playing poker at a live casino.