Lead Week, 19 #Pbweekmia

This is Lead Week on this blog. By one of those interesting and unexpected coincidences, yesterday the Food Standards Agency had a live board meeting on the internet. They invited questions via social media and email.   I wasn’t able to listen in to their board meeting but I did send them this series of…

Lead week, 18 #Pbweekmia

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…

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…