Tiny Shards of Toxic Lead Found in Pheasant Meat Sold for Food
The large white dot is a whole shotgun pellet and the smaller white dot is a lead fragment. Credit: University of CambridgeEating pheasant killed by lead shot is likely to expose consumers to raised levels of lead in their diet, even if the meat is carefully prepared to remove the shotgun pellets and the most damaged tissue.New research has found that pheasants killed by lead shot contain many fragments of lead too small to detect by eye or touch, and too distant from the shot to be removed without throwing away a large…