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11-08-07, 10:39 PM
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5287020.html
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.
"We're bringing this to your attention because of the potential exposure to the most vulnerable population, the children of families that currently have this product in their homes," Diane Eckles, head of the Arizona Department of Health Services' environmental health office, wrote in a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "There is also a potential for the dealers to expose their families, specifically children, to this lead hazard."
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.
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.
"We're bringing this to your attention because of the potential exposure to the most vulnerable population, the children of families that currently have this product in their homes," Diane Eckles, head of the Arizona Department of Health Services' environmental health office, wrote in a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "There is also a potential for the dealers to expose their families, specifically children, to this lead hazard."
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.