NotLilShrimp
Sitting Out
I have recently gotten a sample of majestic star paulsons to shuffle and play with at my desk, but I have read that some paulsons contain lead in them. Is there any risk if I eat at my desk with the paulsons?
Eating around Paulsons? (1 Viewer)
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NotRealNameNoSir
Flush
Always wash your hands before eating and dont scrape your food off your desk surface and youre golden. These are less Paulson tips and more just hygiene lol.
Chips are filthy. Wash them down. I doubt the lead can get into ur system anyway.
Wash your hands then wash your chips. The Majestic Star needed more sinks and soap in the bathroom clearly.
Solid Snake
Flush
Washing your hands and using utensils goes a long way. Eating Cheetos and shuffling chips might not be a good combination just in general.
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This is...not what I expected when I opened the thread. I was expecting whether or not hotdog sandwiches at the card table was okay. 
Having cleaned the Majestic Stars...no. Do not eat with the Majestic Stars.
Having cleaned the Majestic Stars...no. Do not eat with the Majestic Stars.
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The term “leaded” does not always mean the chips contain lead. I thought they stopped putting lead in chips in the 60s? But we often use the term “leaded” to indicate it is compressed clay with metallic flakes added to them which add to the weight. I’m not sure when majestic stars were manufactured but they likely only contain mettalic flakes as most of the real leaded chips are much heavier.
But I would wash those chips or my hands before and after each use. The lead is least of your concerns with casino used chips. You probably could get some Venereal disease if ingested.
But I would wash those chips or my hands before and after each use. The lead is least of your concerns with casino used chips. You probably could get some Venereal disease if ingested.
The original run of the Majestic Star chips are squarely in the leaded Paulson RHC era, at least according to everything I've ever read or seen. That said, the amount of lead ingested through incidental contact has often been said to be negligible at best. I am, however, not an expert in Paulson clay composition or dietary ingestion of lead.
Most paulson chips were ~40% lead for a long time. They still contained lead into the 1990s. Certain colors stayed leaded longer than others. It's not a problem if you don't eat them or sniff the dust. I'd be careful milling them, personally.The term “leaded” does not always mean the chips contain lead. I thought they stopped putting lead in chips in the 60s? But we often use the term “leaded” to indicate it is compressed clay with metallic flakes added to them which add to the weight. I’m not sure when majestic stars were manufactured but they likely only contain mettalic flakes as most of the real leaded chips are much heavier.
But I would wash those chips or my hands before and after each use. The lead is least of your concerns with casino used chips. You probably could get some Venereal disease if ingested.
I use lead off and soap periodically when using leaded chips.
SendThatStack
3 of a Kind
A little lead in the diet adds to your character.
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I once sniffed leaded Paulsons and my nasal passage swelled up. They have a unique smell. I never did that again.
I once sniffed leaded Paulsons and my nasal passage swelled up. They have a unique smell. I never did that again.
I wash my hands before & after each use of my Paulsons. Not because I'm worried about lead but because I'm worried about hooker juice!
Yeah, that's ^ not particularly accurate.
Leaded means "contains lead" as part of the chip's composition, typically as part of the coloring formula(s).
The metallic flakes added to many clay chips over history for weight or security are/were not lead (typically brass, steel, or aluminum).
Some leaded chips produced in the past also had added metal flakes (usually for security).
The composition of many Paulson and TRK chip colors contained large amounts of lead for decades, well into the 2000s.
There you go. I stand corrected.
I knew there was lead used in some of the pigments like in paint, but it doesn’t seem to add “weight” enough for what many of us consider “leaded”.
Do any of the colors used today have any lead?
I was thinking the exact same thing!!
By 2002 the company's chips had an average lead content of about .5 percent by weight and it is now about .003 percent, said Gaming Partners' chief executive officer, Gerard Charlier. A handful of the more than 70 "edge spot" colors used to create chips unique to each casino had a lead content of nearly 50 percent in 2002 but were reformulated and by 2006 the lead was removed.
Lead is a heavy substance that gave chips a satisfying heft and pleasing sound when clicked together. But manufacturers have found similar yet less weighty substitutes in recent years, such as zinc.
Lead rarely enters the body through the skin, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People exposed to lead at work are typically breathing in particles of lead generated in a heavy manufacturing process. Most lead gets into the body when it is swallowed, by eating or drinking lead-tainted products or by hand-to-mouth contact. Most lead will stay in an adult body for a few weeks, but it survives longer in children, who can be harmed by lower levels of lead than adults.
Even the repeated handling of chips wouldn't be enough to trigger a hazardous level of dust, according to Nevada OSHA, a state agency that follows federal workplace safety standards established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Lead is a heavy substance that gave chips a satisfying heft and pleasing sound when clicked together. But manufacturers have found similar yet less weighty substitutes in recent years, such as zinc.
Lead rarely enters the body through the skin, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People exposed to lead at work are typically breathing in particles of lead generated in a heavy manufacturing process. Most lead gets into the body when it is swallowed, by eating or drinking lead-tainted products or by hand-to-mouth contact. Most lead will stay in an adult body for a few weeks, but it survives longer in children, who can be harmed by lower levels of lead than adults.
Even the repeated handling of chips wouldn't be enough to trigger a hazardous level of dust, according to Nevada OSHA, a state agency that follows federal workplace safety standards established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Today's modern (Paulson) chip colors are essentially lead-free -- less than 0.003%. But older chip formulas used by Paulson and TRK were as high as 40%+ lead by weight for some colors. Paulson started changing formulas in the late 1990's and by 2006 or so, GPI had converted everything to near-zero lead content.
And sweetness. Hundreds of years ago, some winemakers added lead to their wine in order to make it taste sweeter.
Lead poisoning used to be common in toddlers and young children because they would eat peeling lead-containing paint off the walls and floors they regularly came in contact with because of its sweet taste.
NotLilShrimp
Sitting Out
Thank you all for the replies. I have decided to sniff each chip individually to evaluate which ones have lead and which ones don't.
But seriously, I think I'm just gonna put them away when I eat at my desk. I'd rather be safe than sorry. No need to gamble on poker chips that I'm not playing with.
But seriously, I think I'm just gonna put them away when I eat at my desk. I'd rather be safe than sorry. No need to gamble on poker chips that I'm not playing with.
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