Still waiting for Waitrose

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…

Waitrose needs to get to an answer quickly, now

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 – we’re still waiting

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…

Still waiting for Waitrose

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…

European Hunters know the risk of lead in game meat

Our hunting organisations are dinosaurs compared with those elsewhere in Europe – and even in many ways compared with those in the USA and Canada. As Waitrose consider rewording their health warning on their packs of game meat on sale in their stores (see here and here) they should glance at the advice on consumption…