Thread: Lead bullets and their risk to human health

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Plumbers used to get a pint of milk each day when doing lead work. Even when I was an apprentice carpenter in the 80's our company plumber got the milk when lead working. That was in England with an old school village building company

Used to be the thing for welding Galv coated metal too - although I think it has basically been debunked now and PAPR or extraction machinery is the preferred way now.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

If you do get some lead in your system, your body will clean it out in a month. Lead is not cumulative.

I used to think this way too, although a person I met recently was saying they had issues with getting rid of the lead out of their system. They were saying that the exposure they had was over a considerable period of time, and it meant that it took longer than they were told it would take to get their levels down. I expect there was some more detail to that story that I didn't get, but from that sample of one I'm not sure it's a given that every person can clear elevated lead levels in a month?