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Ammunition & Hand Loading => Cartridge and Shotshell reloading => Topic started by: noylj on January 08, 2017, 01:56:19 PM
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Just for information:
CDC wants to lower the blood lead level from 5.0 to 3.5 mg/dl.
Why? Not for any health reason but because they have a rule/philosophy and no lead level is safe, and they set the lead level just below the highest 2.5% of children tested. Thus, as I wrote in another post, it has NOTHING to do with any health effects, and everything to do with increasing control, increasing budget, and increasing staff.
Since lead is a perfectly normal element in nature, we can NEVER get BLL to zero, so they have eternity to work on new equipment, new tests, new rules and regulations. Thus, we are so far below any real health issues that it is laughable.
Please remember: all exposure will be on a bell curve and every bell curve has a 2.5% highest grouping.
Currently, testing so poor, that if you have a 5 mg/dl reading, it could really be 1 or 10. We are in the 0.01 ppm range and quickly rushing to the ppb range.
Any one who says the government is your friend is an idiot.