CDC: No health risk for lead in venison

[simonkenton]

From: Bullet Points <[email protected]>
Subject: CDC Study Shows No Health Risk Associated with

Traditional Ammunition

November 6, 2008
Special Edition

CDC Study Shows No Health Risk
Associated with Traditional Ammunition

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study on human lead levels of hunters in North Dakota has confirmed what hunters throughout the world have known for hundreds of years, that consuming game harvested with traditional ammunition poses absolutely no health risk to people, including children, and that the call to ban lead ammunition was and remains a scare tactic being pushed by anti-hunting groups to forward their political agenda.

Today, additional information became available about the CDC study, originally released yesterday, that is important to disseminate to hunters, their families and the general public about the total and complete lack of any evidence of a human health risk from consuming game harvested using traditional ammunition. For instance, in the study the average lead level of the hunters tested was lower than that of the average American.

In the CDC's study, children's lead levels had a mean of just 0.88 micrograms per deciliter, which is less than half the national average for children and an infinitesimally small fraction of the level that the CDC considers to be of concern for children (10 micrograms per deciliter). Yet, despite the total and complete lack of any evidence from this study of the existence of a human health risk, the Department of Health nevertheless urges that children under 6 and pregnant women not eat venison harvested using traditional ammunition. The North Dakota Department of Health's recommendation is based on a "zero tolerance" approach to the issue of blood lead levels that is not supported by science or the CDC's guidelines.

To further put in perspective the claims concerning the safety of game harvested using traditional ammunition, consider this statement from the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) -- a state agency that has conducted an extensive panel of blood-lead testing for more than 15 years: "IDPH maintains that if lead in venison were a serious health risk, it would likely have surfaced within extensive blood-lead testing since 1992 with 500,000 youth under 6 and 25,000 adults having been screened." It has not.

[thallub]

Yep, all the alarmist trash was started by a nutcase who has an ax to grind. The "expert " guy is a skin doctor.

[hogdogs]

Thallub, Just remember... he did stay in a holiday inn express...
Brent

[teeroux]

It reminds me of something similar that happend with comic books(saw Stan Lee talk about it on the history channel). Some psycho i mean psychologist interviews all these murderers, rapist, and criminals of all sorts as part of his job and near all of them said they read comic books as kids in his interviews. So next thing you know psycho [EXPERT] says comic books turn youths towards crime and such things.:barf:

I guess some people's definition of expert is prick with an agenda.

[Daryl]

This is absolutely no surprise to me, but I'm glad someone did the testing tp prove the facts.

Not that facts have anything to do with a political agenda...

Daryl

[relee]

Unfortunately this has been the style of reporting in our country lately. Big, splashy headlines, few facts and premature conclusions. Then when it is time for "the rest of the story" it is buried on page 20. The watchdogs of liberty have become the lapdogs of special interests and their corporate masters. The key to the truth in any article has to begin with a proper vetting of the author. Where is he coming from, what is he trying to prove, who is financing him (when nothing makes sense follow the money!) Luckly we still have the internet for honest discourse...enjoy it while it lasts!

Bob
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Alcohol...the cause of and solution to all of lifes problems. Homer Simpson

[JohnKSa]

Then when it is time for "the rest of the story" it is buried on page 20.

I'm sorry to say that it is MUCH worse than that.

If you go poking around on the web for stories on the CDC report, you're going to see stories pointing out that the people who consumed meat from hunted animals had higher blood lead levels than those who did not. That is true, but what they're not telling you is that the difference is very small. Even those in the study who did eat meat from hunted animals had average lead levels less than the national average.

Basically you get more lead in your blood as a matter of course from living in an urban area than you do from eating meat from animals shot with lead bullets.

In other words, they're not content to bury the report, they're "spinning" it and publishing the spin.

Here's the actual report.

http://www.nssf.org/share/PDF/ND_report.pdf

[scoobydoo6906]

this is great so maybe The North Dakota Community Action Partnership can start accepting all venison not just arrowed meat.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446984,00.html
I sent them an email to informing them of the CDC's findings.