Category: Lead

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…