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Eating venison, other game raises lead exposure http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1254153463
An avid hunter, Cornatzer was listening to a presentation on the lead poisoning of California condors when an x-ray of a mule deer flashed on an overhead screen. The deer had been shot in the chest with a high-powered rifle.
Cornatzer was shocked that the deer's entire carcass was riddled with dozens of tiny lead-shot fragments.
"My first thought had nothing to do with California condors; it had to do with what I had been doing as a hunter myself, and what I had been feeding our kids," said Cornatzer, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
"I knew good and well after seeing that image that I had been eating a lot of lead fragments over the years," he said.
That realization led Cornatzer and a radiologist last year to X-ray 100 packages of venison that had been donated by a sportsmen group to a food bank. About 60 percent of the packages contained lead-shot fragments, even though it's common practice among hunters to remove meat around the wound.
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