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Re: Paulson Chips contain toxic levels of lead - Associated Press
This is clearly over-reactionary for most. If you're not eating/putting the chips in your mouth, then you don't have danger. There's far worse skank/crud on casino chips to be worried about than the lead. All this means is that you shouldn't give chips to your little kids to play with if they will put them in their mouth. This is probably a bad idea anyway, since they are a choking hazard.
Metallic lead is not very toxic, anyway, especially for adults. Lead dust and other lead compounds are what you really need to worry about. However, I think about all the times I used my teeth to close lead split-shot sinkers when fishing as a little kid, and I can't help but wonder if that's why I'm such a demented sicko today... |
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Re: Paulson Chips contain toxic levels of lead - Associated Press
tl;dr cliffnotes please these chips are the best.
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Re: Paulson Chips contain toxic levels of lead - Associated Press
Oh [censored]! My toddler is playing with some custom made Paulson chips. I am sure he put them in his mouth at one time or another. Time to lock them up!
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Re: Paulson Chips contain toxic levels of lead - Associated Press
The Chip-Making Robots are initiating a take-over!!
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Re: Paulson Chips contain toxic levels of lead - Associated Press
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Oh [censored]! My toddler is playing with some custom made Paulson chips. I am sure he put them in his mouth at one time or another. Time to lock them up! [/ QUOTE ] This kind of comment, which has been made a couple of times, is idiotic. Obviously as products containing tons of lead in them get old/get damaged/rub together, lead particles will be loose. That was explored in the abc news vid. I, like others who've played a lot of live poker, tend to handle my chips obsessively while playing. Hopefully, people wash their hands before eating, etc., but obviously the presence of lead dust presents a very real threat for people who are in contact with it for many hours per day. Lead dust can come home on your skin and clothes, too; not just the stray chips you have lying around. If my comments are missing some important scientific info, someone please correct me, but it's not as simple as "keeping your custom Paulson chips out of your toddler's mouth." What are the odds that other clay chips besides Paulson's contain lead? Are there like 100 different ways that clay chips are made? My gut says probably not. |
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Re: Paulson Chips contain toxic levels of lead - Associated Press
My TRKing chips, which I've owned for 10+ years, contain lead. My Blue Chip Co. chips do not. Nor do my plastic faux clay chips. I tested each this morning with a lead testing kit.
My only real concern about lead in chips is that I like to riffle my chips while playing, and I have a stack of chips by my computer that I riffle while on line. If you are someone who likes to riffle chips, and use chips with lead, I imagine that riffling chips will release some kind of particles into the air. How much of a health hazard it is, I don't know. But I guess all things being equal, why play with chips manufactured with lead? Especially if you do have children at home. |
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Re: Paulson Chips contain toxic levels of lead - Associated Press
This just in, you shouldn't be licking your poker chips...and washing your hands before you eat is a +EV move...glad the AP is here to tell me these things.
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Re: Paulson Chips contain toxic levels of lead - Associated Press
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Oh [censored]! My toddler is playing with some custom made Paulson chips. I am sure he put them in his mouth at one time or another. Time to lock them up! [/ QUOTE ] Do you then play your weekly game with these chips that your child has been sucking on? |
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