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Re:Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ br... by networked on Friday September 02, 2016 @01:35PM (#12414709)
A former colleague of mine, a man in his seventies, told us a story from when he served in the Soviet army as a young man. He served with a guy who used to wipe his individual plate and utensils with the newspaper they got. Others warned him about the lead but he dismissed the warnings. After a while, he ended up with lead poisoning.

I don't think I heard how long it took for him to get it or how severe it was.

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Re:Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ br... by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Friday September 02, 2016 @03:21PM (#12415548)
Could have been ammo related too.
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Re:Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ br... by networked on Friday September 02, 2016 @04:20PM (#12415985)
Quite possible! I understand that they thought the lead in the newspaper ink was the culprit because nobody else in their unit did the same and nobody else got lead poisoning, but obviously, it could have been coincidental. I've tried researching just how much lead one could consume this way but never found anything conclusive.
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