Hunting with lead: Association between blood lead levels and wild game consumption
Abstract
Background. Wild game hunting is a popular activity in many regions of the United States. Recently, the presence of lead fragments in wild game meat, presumably from the bullets or shot used for hunting, has raised concerns about health risks from meat consumption.
- Publication:
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Environmental Research
- Pub Date:
- 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.envres.2009.08.007
- Bibcode:
- 2009ER....109..952I
- Keywords:
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- Lead;
- Lead poisoning;
- Child health;
- Environmental health;
- Sports;
- Epidemiology;
- Environmental exposure;
- Food contamination;
- Ecology