This is Lead Week on this blog. Dear Supermarkets who sell game meat There are quite a few supermarkets who sell, or have sold, game meat. I believe they are all aware of this series of blogs on the lead content of game meat. Some have said that they will look into it – that’s…
Author: Mark
Born Bristol, UK
Educated: Cleeve House School Bristol, Bristol Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Winter activity of pipistrelle bats.
NERC post-doctoral Research Fellow, Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
Former Conservation Director of the RSPB, 1989-2011
Lead week, 17 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. BASC says: ‘There is no risk to those who do not eat shot game meat more than once a week throughout the year‘ The Food Standards Agency says: ‘There is no agreed safe level for lead intake.’ and ‘occasional consumption of lead-shot game birds’ that would have minimal…
Lead Week, 16 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. These results are new but they are in line with previous studies – although with higher lead levels. The Lead Ammunition Group provided a report to government on lead ammunition in early June. That report, which I haven’t seen, must be thick, dry and packed with statistics and…
Lead Week, 15 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. A few questions for Iceland Foods (‘food you can trust’): have you ever tested the lead levels in the game meat sold in your stores? If so, what were the results? after I blogged about lead levels in game meat as a response to the announcement that you…
Lead Week, 14 #Pbweekmia
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This is Lead Week on this blog. Lead is of course poisonous to wildlife too. It is estimated that around 73,000 ducks die in the UK each winter of lead poisoning – they ingest particles of spent lead ammunition in mistake for food or grit. Around 400 ducks will have died from lead poisoning in…