Seriously? Have you never watched a pharmacist using a pill counter? They dump a whack of pills into the hard plastic counting tray, scrape the required number into a little channel with a hard plastic spatula, close the lid on the remaining pills, decant the selected ones into the little dispensing canister then decant the remaining uncounted pills back into the bulk bottle. Lots of clattering around, plenty of trauma to the pills, Then dump your gelatin capsules into the pill counter for the next counting job (nice adherent surface - you made the point yourself), pick up that dust and there you go. The hands don't even come into it. The contamination is directly from the pill-counting tray.
