ApocaDocs: X-rayed venison is on its way to food shelves

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Posted Sat Dec 20 2008: from Minneapolis Star Tribune:


	X-rayed venison is on its way to food shelves http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1229793744 Minnesota officials are all but finished X-raying donated venison for lead bullet fragments, and meat found to be lead-free is now being shipped to food shelves around the state. Of about 10,000 packages of venison tested, 560 -- or 5.9 percent -- tested positive for lead, officials said. That meat -- about 1,100 pounds -- will be destroyed after it is tested further to determine lead levels. About 18,000 pounds of venison that showed no detectable lead have been released to food shelves.

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'Doc Michael says:

Great news! ... um ... unless there's something potentially dangerous with X-rays.