It's all about assessing and managing risk.
Basically to run the remotest chance of getting a detectable amount of 1080 in your system you would need to eat 100 kg of venison from a poisoned animal in one sitting.
You probably have more chance of being poisoned by a green potato or silverbeet than the venison.
Thanks for all the serious replies. I'm probably going to have to dump it...even though I know it's 97% likely to be safe to eat. Talked about it with the missus. With our little kids I'm not going to risk their health. Its a really crap situation to throw out a heap of prime meat...and a shame to kill a nice animal for ultimately no reason. A learning lesson for me...study the DoC control map more closely before you go. Take a photo of the map, take it with ya.
If its well cooked, what is there to harm you (outside of the 1080 question)?
https://www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/1059/direct
Update your will, write a farewell letter and eat it all to yourself...
Deer and other living animals except dogs metabolise sub lethal doses of 1080 quite rapidly, basically every 9 hours the amount of the poison in the body halves. So a 100 kg animal that had eaten 10 baits would have consumed enough 1080 to have a .2 mg/kg concentration in its body. It would be ill but the fatal dose is .5mg/kg so it would recover. After 9 hours the 1080 concentration in its body would have dropped to .1 and 9 hours later it would be .05 then .025, .0125, etc till after 8 days all traces would be gone.
So say your deer has eaten 10 pellets 2 hours before you shoot it which gives time for the poison to distribute around the body, it will be bloody unwell and probably grateful to you for shooting it.
You now have a dead deer with a concentration of .2 mg/kg of meat. As it's dead that concentration remains pretty constant it doesn't drop like it does in a live animal.
You eat 1 kg at a sitting (because you are a big eater and bloody hungry) so you have consumed .2 mg of 1080 which is now being distributed around your 100 kg body which gives you a body concentration of .0002 mg of 1080 or 1000th of the dose that made the deer ill and your body is happily getting rid of half of it every 9 hours.
So I'd happily eat your deer.
As to the source of these figures the attached file is a zoology paper on it and brodi. Personally I am more concerned about brodi as an environmentally persistent poison with serious potential to bioaccumulate than I am about 1080.
But it pays to be aware that the 1080 concentration in the muscle of a dead deer can be a lot higher than 0.5mg/kg, as quoted in the paper you link.
And the LD50 is the amount to kill half the population, therefore half the population could have higher levels without dying.
Take it around to Charlie Easons place and get him to test it. Works at LCR Lincoln. He is always writing about how safe 1080 is - used to say ' breaks down to harmless chemicals in water' Could never describe the reaction though despite requests
If in doubt just eat Keas, we know that they don't take baits
Well....for a brief moment in time...this thread was sensible!
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