LETTERS
Sep 29, 2021
3 minutes
LEAD IN WHEAT
Regarding lead shot contaminating wheat (News, 15 September), the problem is when the wheat is growing in the field. I am a farmer and we were growing wheat near a local clay shooting club. We fed the wheat to our own pig unit and ground the grain through our milling process.
I was amazed to find the stone trap on the mill full of lead shot. It never happened when we grew barley on that
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