This is Lead Week on this blog. We now know that, on the basis of this sample of 40 Red Grouse, Iceland Foods have been selling grouse meat with average lead levels over 100 times the maximum legal level for other meats (though it is legal for them to sell game meat with such high…
Category: LEAD AMMUNITION
Lead Week, 11 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. These are the same data presented in a slightly different way – here we can see the means of the data in each category of #shot removed. You can see that the mean lead levels of the samples rise with the number of shot found in each Red…
Lead Week, 10 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. OK – so these are the data. Remember, all the shot were removed from these samples, by a combination of searching by hand and eye and then X-raying the samples. These lead levels refer to the lead left in the meat after the lead shot is removed –…
Lead Week, 9 #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, 8 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. This is a blank graph – but tomorrow, at 6am, you will see it populated with data. There will be 40 points on this graph – each one a sample of Red Grouse meat bought from Iceland Foods stores showing its measured lead content. I thought that explaining…
Lead Week, 7 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. You may have noticed that in the previous blog, which is actually an extract from a blog posted back in July, I asked Iceland how they felt about selling Red Grouse meat that probably has about ten times as much lead in it, on average, as would be…
Lead Week 6, #Pbweekmia
It’s not that we didn’t tell Iceland what they were doing… Here’s an extract from a blog I wrote about Iceland’s decision to sell Red Grouse in its stores back in July this year, soon after the announcement was made. ‘Iceland will have thought long and hard about this business decision of course, and it…
Lead Week, 5 #Pbweeekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. Methods 40 grouse were purchased (in packs of two each to serve two people, with one grouse per person) from Iceland stores in September 2015. Grouse were purchased from three separate stores in England. All were in boxes indicating that they were supplied by ‘Kezie’ and all…
Lead Week, 4 #Pbweekmia
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, 3 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. The lead levels in game meat are due to the fact that they have lead shot propelled into them to kill them. Other forms of ammunition are available and are used widely in other parts of the world for shooting game for food or fun. The trouble with…