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Interesting. Is any part of an animal safe to eat when harvested with lead projectiles? Is it just the area of impact and near, or does it spread throughout ver

by hkon 5y ago

Interesting. Is any part of an animal safe to eat when harvested with lead projectiles? Is it just the area of impact and near, or does it spread throughout very quickly?

tristor 5y ago
Generally speaking, it mostly only affects the meat where lead projectiles hit. The most common lead projectiles for hunting though are shotgun pellets in shells, which have a sizeable spread and often used for small targets like waterfowl and rodents. So a small target and a sizeable spread of pellets means that while only hit and splatter areas are affected, that could be most of the usable meat as well.
sneak 5y ago
From TFA: > Upon impact, a lead bullet can fragment into tiny microparticles, too small to see with the naked eye or sense when eating. A deer processor in Pennsylvania who requested anonymity shared his first-hand experience. "Seventy-five percent of the time when I find a bullet in the carcass, I only find the base. I know the lead is all in the meat somewhere," he told EHN. > Scientists have used X-rays to visualize and count sometimes hundreds of minute lead particles in hunted meat, and have detected high concentrations of lead in hunted carcasses using chemical analysis. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not recognize a safe limit for the amount of lead in meat, the European Commission set maximum levels at 0.1 parts per million (ppm). > Concentrations of lead more than 100 times this limit have been detected in the meat of lead-shot carcasses as far as six inches from the entry wound.
- kokanator 5y ago
  >Concentrations of lead more than 100 times this limit have been detected in the meat of lead-shot carcasses as far as six inches from the entry wound. In which direction? Was there any indication of damage? Did they only measure from the round bullet entry? The statement provides no additional details. The entry wound is often small, about the size of the projectile. While the damage after entry is greater and often identifiable. It is important to follow the projectiles through the game.
- hkon 5y ago
  Indeed I noticed this. But it is common practice to discard the meat around the wound canal on larger animals for this exact reason. So I was curious if someone knew if there was a safe distance from the wound or if it just spread throughout.

by hkon 5y ago

Interesting. Is any part of an animal safe to eat when harvested with lead projectiles? Is it just the area of impact and near, or does it spread throughout very quickly?

tristor 5y ago

Generally speaking, it mostly only affects the meat where lead projectiles hit. The most common lead projectiles for hunting though are shotgun pellets in shells, which have a sizeable spread and often used for small targets like waterfowl and rodents. So a small target and a sizeable spread of pellets means that while only hit and splatter areas are affected, that could be most of the usable meat as well.

sneak 5y ago

From TFA: > Upon impact, a lead bullet can fragment into tiny microparticles, too small to see with the naked eye or sense when eating. A deer processor in Pennsylvania who requested anonymity shared his first-hand experience. "Seventy-five percent of the time when I find a bullet in the carcass, I only find the base. I know the lead is all in the meat somewhere," he told EHN. > Scientists have used X-rays to visualize and count sometimes hundreds of minute lead particles in hunted meat, and have detected high concentrations of lead in hunted carcasses using chemical analysis. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not recognize a safe limit for the amount of lead in meat, the European Commission set maximum levels at 0.1 parts per million (ppm). > Concentrations of lead more than 100 times this limit have been detected in the meat of lead-shot carcasses as far as six inches from the entry wound.

kokanator 5y ago
>Concentrations of lead more than 100 times this limit have been detected in the meat of lead-shot carcasses as far as six inches from the entry wound. In which direction? Was there any indication of damage? Did they only measure from the round bullet entry? The statement provides no additional details. The entry wound is often small, about the size of the projectile. While the damage after entry is greater and often identifiable. It is important to follow the projectiles through the game.
hkon 5y ago
Indeed I noticed this. But it is common practice to discard the meat around the wound canal on larger animals for this exact reason. So I was curious if someone knew if there was a safe distance from the wound or if it just spread throughout.