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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rod Snell" data-source="post: 2738822" data-attributes="member: 796">Not to beat it to death, but large chunks of metallic lead, like bullets, are relatively inert and pose little contamination hazard.  Loading with clean components is not hazardous with normal precautions, like not smoking or touching your face, and washing your hands after loading. It is the soluble lead salts left after firing a cartridge that are readily absorbed through the mouth, eyes, and lungs.  Probably the MOST  hazardous thing you can do is sweep up the residue dust on the floor of an indoor range without wearing a respirator, because the dust you breathe is absorbed into the blood in your lungs.  If you fire on an indoor range, be sure the fans are on and pulling the air away from you downrange.  Care should be taken cleaning brass, as the residue on the fired brass contains the soluble lead salts.Do you wash your hands after handing fired  brass on the range? Consider any fired brass contaminated until it is properly cleaned.</blockquote>