This is Lead Week on this blog. Here’s a summary of points made by this blog, this week, on the subject of lead in food. I spent a considerable chunk of my life as a scientist so I am reasonably happy reading the scientific evidence on this subject although some of it is certainly unfamiliar…
Category: LEAD AMMUNITION
Lead Week, 21 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. It’s pretty awful that Defra has not come to any decision on lead ammunition which is a source of poison in our foods and our environment, but it is scandalous that it has not made the report of the Lead Ammunition Group public after receiving it almost eight…
Lead Week, 20 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. Three quarters of the grouse meat samples from Iceland Foods which I had tested would have been illegal if they had been found in other meat (though they were legal in game meat). A third of the samples had ten times the levels that would be legal in…
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…
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…
Lead Week, 13 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. Just a few notes as background. The Red Grouse samples whose analyses are reported here were bought in Iceland Stores in September 2015 and sent off for analysis in October. I received the results from the laboratory a week ago today. I was quite busy at the end…