You can pretty much discount anything coming from California. I have been hunting with shotguns and lead shot since 1959 and the same amount of time with rifles and lead bullets, as have many here. I have suffered no ill effects from using lead shot or bullets. Of course I do not intentionally ingest lead shot or bullet fragments however I am sure I have ingested some. Don't go getting all paranoid from the warnings you read on labels about lead unless it is a big part of your diet, there are generations that have come and gone and are still here that have used lead for shot and bullets and don't have three ears or a tail or eyes on top of their head like a woodcock, nor were they turned into a blithering idiot.