Paulson Chips contain toxic levels of lead - Associated Press

[J.A.Sucker]

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...