Saw this article pop up on Rod n Rifle last year -
https://rodandrifle.co.nz/articles/a...esearch-study/ Caught my eye as I sent 3 samples into Eric's study.
I am pretty cautious about keeping well away from the wound channels but even then they did get a low hit on one of my samples - still below the level of concern even though was using a 7mm RM with SST projectiles but surprised they found any given I am generally pretty careful. I will probably try copper projectiles when I run through my stash of lead but not going to stress about it for now, enough animals around to leave the odd quarter on the hill.
He did say that they were finding lead with the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) at the Cawthron Institute that wasn't showing up on the xrays as it was too small.
He is apparently going to publish the results soon but summary advice was:
My recommendation from this work is that if you don’t know where the game meat came from, don’t eat it. Especially don’t feed game meat from unknown sources to kids. While you might be very careful not taking anything from the wound channel, someone else might not be as careful. If you want to use lead bullets and you make a good broadside shot, consider leaving the front quarters and just taking the back legs.