Arizona issues warning about poker chips

[Doctor Cynic]

Source: AP via Yahoo

PHOENIX - Arizona health regulators issued a warning Thursday about a popular brand of high-end poker chips that may contain high levels of lead. 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.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071109/ap_on_he_me/poker_chips_lead;_ylt=Avh9a2_WQsjKdZ1zlVZG8D7VJRIF

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Any guesses where those are from?

[Critters2]

1. I'll guess....

Do they have a flag that looks like this: ?

[sasquatch]

2. I wonder if the Chinese are doing this to tell us that we need to pay our debts

[havocmom]

4. They don't have small pox cootie blankets to give us

Lead must be the next best thing.

Seriously, consider all the efforts that have gone into dumbing-down the average American worker/voter in the past 27 years... The lead might be to help speed up the process?

[tkmorris]

11. Paulsons aren't made in China last I heard

[NYC]

3. One chip was 45% lead.

...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...

...Shown the test results, Will Humble, an Arizona health services official who formerly headed the state's lead poisoning prevention program, said he was shocked.

"If you were to take chips like these and spread them out, 1,000 of them on the ground, essentially it would be a federal Superfund site," Humble told the TV station. "That's how much lead is in these things. I've been doing this for many, many years and seldom do we come across products that contain this much lead that are in people's homes."

[TheWraith]

5. "1,000 of them on the ground, essentially it would be a federal Superfund site"

Sweet holy undead mother of fuck.

[aquart]

6. Send those things HOME.

[NYC]

15. Amazing, isn't it?

And we PAY for this stuff.

Today, I tried to buy a non-Chinese umbrella. No luck. I refuse. I just won't buy a Chinese umbrella.

They can keep their lead, their poison, and their shoddy workmanship, and I'll keep my money. (A little rain never killed anyone.)

[Stargazer99]

7. Your FDA in action under Republican rule

when I was young in the 50s you NEVER had food that made you ill (99% of the food was produced in the US)NEVER heard of poisions like lead. Get those damn Republicans OUT of government so we can depend on our government like before.

[Bobbieo]

8. China must be killing off its workers who make the products, too.

[w4rma]

13. Darn straight China is. (nt)

[Art_from_Ark]

9. Well, lead-based paint was pretty common back then

Damn near had to get my stomach pumped out because of it

[NYC]

16. Now that you mention it, I never actually knew anyone

who got food poisoning when I was young.

Pork was the meat that required care. You had to cook it to an internal temperature of 140°. You could eat the other meats without concern.

Things have changed.

[Frank Cannon]

10. I swear that the Chinese are trying to kill us all

It's an ingenious plan, actually. They use the best weapon they have at their disposal, the megatons of worthless shit that we buy from them.

[Ian David]

12. De-regulate everything and let the chips fall where they may.

http://www.popamericana.com/!/dogs-playing-poker.jpg

[NorthernSpy]

14. exposure to lead impairs a person's judgement...

But why would a casino want to render you judgement-impaired?


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