Please put my paranoia to rest

Hi, I just found a wonderful pepper mill at a Salvation Army. I have no earthly idea of it's age, but it's off the tall wooden theme. Now, I've got this ridiculous, ridiculous paranoia that I'd love to have someone vaguely knowledgeable about such things smash to rest. The metal workings on the inside look like lead to me. I don't really wanna eat lead. However, I'm pretty sure this is ridiculous (as I know very little about what lead looks like), for it to have actually been used in a food thing, but, well, I'd like to hear a second opinion. Or four. I'm paranoid.

Thanks a lot,

buy a lead tester from home depot. they sell them for testing china.

.... or get a magnet and see it it will stick. Lead is not magnetic. Lead is very soft . You can dent it with a fingernail.

Pepper is hard, lead is soft. They always have been. No one ever made pepper mills with lead innards, and they wouldn't work if you did.

Your pepper mill will be mazak (zinc alloy, aka 'pot metal'. Looks dull and greyish when old, just like lead, but it isn't. Grind away without fear.