Eat lead (James Fraser/Rex Features)
HOW much lead gets eaten along with wild-shot game? Enough to poison regular eaters of some wild birds, thanks to fragments of lead too small to be picked out during a meal.
Debbie Pain of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, and colleagues, bought wild-shot birds from supermarkets, game dealers and butchers across the UK. After X-raying them, they cooked them either in wine or cider or a pH-neutral preparation such as a cream sauce. As is traditional with game, only then did they pick out the larger, visible lead fragments.
Subsequent…
