Pheasant meat sold for food is likely to expose consumers to toxic lead, even if the shotgun pellets are carefully removed, a study has found. Lead fragments often form when lead shotgun pellets ...

Pheasant meat on sale in a UK butchers has been found to contain toxic lead that is harmful to humans. These fragments, which are too small to detect by eye or touch, become lodged deep within the ...

Professor Debbie Pain, of Cambridge University’s Zoology Department, said: “We were already aware that lead concentrations in pheasant meat sold for human consumption are often far higher than ...

Pheasant preparation can be a bit of a debate among pheasant hunters. Many will remove the breast meat and discard the remainder. Breast meat is easy to access, and some believe pheasant thighs ...

Around 11,000 tonnes of meat from wild-shot gamebirds, mostly pheasant, are eaten in the UK every year. Virtually all pheasants shot in the UK for human consumption are killed using lead shot.

How was the study conducted? The Cambridge scientists tested five pheasant-based dog food products. Three of these were raw meat, one was dried pheasant and partridge, and the other was processed ...