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machoneman

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8. Yes, lead and other chemicals pose a far greater danger...

Reply to TheDebbieDee (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 7, 2017, 08:35 AM

Sep 2017

...than plastic. These are assimilated in the body unlike plastic where some traces may not pass through the digestive tract yet may still be harmless. Not so at all with lead, petro-based chemicals and even low radioactive by-products in subterranean granite states (like the Eastern US region). I'd be much more concerned about these issues.

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