Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Lead Poisoning still Making News Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 21:26:20 -0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Sender: Jim Pennino Message-ID: References: <8ad95063-7fd6-46fd-89bc-7c782843e6ec@googlegroups.com> <99a60cea-a604-4964-b746-350a51910589@googlegroups.com> <937b8e9d-61c6-4e2d-8c83-56966a6604a9@googlegroups.com> Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="55abe2cec268f2e199216e5658354830"; logging-data="32750"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+51bc/tYnObcVK8j0hPzsi" User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.10 (i86pc)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:649FFufGWwQMf9nH53KN7vw4FGA= Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:602829 Double-A wrote: > On Friday, October 28, 2016 at 6:38:12 AM UTC-7, HVAC wrote: >> Hevi-Shot has gotten the lead out of bird shot. Even where lead shot is still legal, do you really want to be eating game you shot with lead pellets in it? Not me. I have seen the lead capsules go from the wine bottles. Even my Wild Turkey whiskey for a time had a lead capsule. Now it's been replaced. We are seeing progress. >> >> Double-A >> ---------- >> >> Removing the lead from bird shot and fishing tackle wasn't done to protect humans... It was to protect waterfowl who inadvertently eat the lead > > > But haven't you ever worried while eating a bird you shot that you might accidentally swallow some lead shot you missed in the meat? They put arsenic in it too! > Do you chew your food before swalloing it? In any case, the percentage of arsenic is way less than 1% and it is bound in alloy form. -- Jim Pennino