Lead is a highly toxic substance. It poses huge risks to human and animal health. That’s why it has been banned from petrol, paints, and various household items in many countries across the world, including in the UK. There is however still a glaring omission in these prohibitions: lead is still widely used in ammunition…
Category: Lead
Waitrose you are rubbish!
I wrote to Waitrose on 26 November and they haven’t been able to come up with a response in all that time – just this … Dear Dr Avery Please accept my apologies on my behalf my colleague for incorrectly addressing you. I’ve asked our technical team if they have anything further to add and…
Waitrose lack of response
Email sent to Waitrose early this morning. It’s Dr Avery not Mr Avery. I first contacted you about this matter on 26 November – I have not had any substantive response except that you are thinking about it. I know I am not alone in having contacted you. You have been ‘thinking about it’ for…
Waitrose playing an odd game
Waitrose has been selling game meat with inaccurate health warnings in their stores for over five weeks and has so far failed to correct their errors. But the supermarket has cooperated with a so-called news story in the Telegraph promoting game meat sales. It doesn’t look good when a large company is oh so slow…
Waitrose – is there anyone there?
Waitrose has known for over 5 weeks (and should have known anyway) that they are offering for sale game meat with misleading health warnings over lead content. And yet they haven’t yet done anything about it. If they had come back to me and politely said ‘Go away!’ I’d have been more impressed than the…