Some interesting reading on bullets and lead contamination

[sherlockbonez]

From what I remembered my toxicology class is than, elemental lead is not very readily absorpted. It needs to "ferment" and methylate by bacterial to make it into your system. At which point it acts as a neurotoxin.

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

From what I remembered my toxicology class is than, elemental lead is not very readily absorpted. It needs to "ferment" and methylate by bacterial to make it into your system. At which point it acts as a neurotoxin.

Good point. By itself the lead is fairly inert. Until its properties change, it won't enter the body. The digestive tract of course is open on both ends. So what changes will be enabled by stomach acids?

 

[svt-40]

I wouldnt want to guess how many TONS of wild game I have ate over a lifetime and still kicking so far.

The Canadians drank water from lead pipes for so long, that an odd bullet fragment sounds so irrelevant!

 

[svt-40]

It hasn't done me any harm - at least I don't think.

I tend not to think too, that's the first sign of lead poisoning according to the experts, but it started long before my first contact with lead, so I call those experts dorks.

 

[adgadget]

Some study somewhere linked tea drinkers to less heavy metal problems, example my father has been a mechanic since 1961 and lived soaked in leaded gas, has been tested for metals yearly (at a doctor's request) result:negligable amounts.