I've told this story before but I'm going to re-tell it because it is obvious there are people here who need to hear it. I started casting bullets back in the middle 90's and soon developed the same concern many of you have with the possibility of getting lead poisoning. Then it occurred to me that I was employed at a can manufacturing plant and that in the old days they sealed the side seam of the can with lead. It also occurred to me that many of the older mechanics at the plant had worked in the business when lead was used. They worked around molten lead day in and day out, month in and month out..............etc. They also were not, as a group, particularly careful about keeping lead off of their hands and clothing (I deduced that from watching their personal hygene habits today). SO it seemed to me there'd be some good stories about the bad effects of lead poisoning from their ranks. Well, it was a complete bust. When I queried them about the topic they all sort of looked at me like I'd just stepped off a flying saucer and asked, "What problems? We never had any problems with lead poisoning." From time to time the company would have them tested for lead levels in their systems but only on rare occasion was anybody taken off the line (until the lead levels dropped back down to normal). Now when it comes to children it is, I believe, an entirely different story. But once you've grown up physically you really have to ingest a LOT of lead to get health problems. This issue is like everything else the enviro-wackos blow out of proportion, ya gotta take it with a grain of salt, but NOT TOO MUCH SALT, that's really bad for ya!!
