Category: Lead

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…

This Pheasant-meat meal was on sale with an inaccurate health warning in my local Waitrose on Christmas Eve – I went and did most of the little necessary pre-Christmas shopping in Lidl and noticed how much cheaper it was for some of the brands I wanted… I’m not sure why it takes a large retailer…

I have had the following further holding reply from Waitrose over the inaccurate health warning on their game meat. Thank you for your patience Dr Avery. Thank you for your recent email regarding our on pack advice about the consumption of shot game for certain groups of customers. Your comments about our current statement have…

Waitrose are selling game with a health warning about lead shot on the pack (admittedly the bottom of the pack) but that is good, and worth a cheer or two. But the health warning is inaccurate – see here, here, here – which is bad. Waitrose said they were looking into it – that’s good…

I’m waiting patiently for Waitrose’s response on the subject of the wording of their health warning on game meat (see here), although I did get a holding response from them today, as follows. Good morning Dr Avery. Thank you for your recent email regarding the labelling on our game products. I have asked for some…