Popular poker chips found to contain lead
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An investigative report conducted by ABC 15 Phoenix revealed that poker chips manufactured by gaming supplies company Paulson and used by such Las Vegas casinos as Caesar’s Palace, Mandalay Bay and the MGM Grand contain excessive amounts of lead.
Paulson manufactures in between ten to twenty million poker chips a year.
From the ABC 15 report:
“If you were to take chips like these and spread them out, 1000 of them on the ground, essentially it would be a federal Superfund site. That’s how much lead are in these things. I’ve been doing this for many, many years and seldom do we run across products that contain this much lead that are in people’s homes.”
While no amount of lead is considered safe, the EPA’s legal limit is .06% in paint.
Over and over and over again - 200 times - we tested Paulson chips for surface lead.And every time, they tested positive.
What’s more: over half maxed-out the swab’s detection limit at 10-percent lead. That’s more than 160-times the lead the EPA legally allows in paint.
