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…
Category: LEAD AMMUNITION
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…
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…
Lead-free venison from Scotland
I have written before about how those in charge of our state forests are leading on taking out the lead (Pb) from ammunition. FC England were definitely in the lead (see here) but FC Scotand were not far behind (see here). Here is the Forest Enterprise Scotland position on use of lead ammunition – Waitrose…
Waitrose – are you BTO members?
Waitrose is still selling game meat to the public weeks after being told that the health warning it is displaying is inaccurate. For a leading supermarket which claims high environmental credentials for itself, it is behaving badly. What Waitrose claims on its website … … and it’s a bit difficult to see how selling game…
Waitrose – you are dragging your heels
A week ago Waitrose emailed me to wish me a good weekend and to say they were looking into the inaccurate health warning on the game meat they are selling to the public. Another week and no change in Waitrose’s position as far as I know. I contacted Waitrose nearly three weeks ago and I…
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
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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…