Implications for food safety of the size and location of fragments of lead shotgun pellets embedded in hunted carcasses of small game animals intended for human consumption

• Rhys Green ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: reg29@cam.ac.uk

  Affiliations RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8690-8914

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• Mark Taggart,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Research Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, Thurso, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0649-8490

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• Deborah Pain,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

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• Keturah Smithson

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cambridge Biotomography Centre, Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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