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EPA VIC FAILED TO ACT ON PUBLIC LEAD POISONING RISKS ACROSS VICTORIA, MINISTER’S OFFICE EVADED QUESTION

ABOVE: Freckled Duck, courtesy Eleanor Dilley.

DOCUMENTS RECENTLY OBTAINED through FOI (Freedom of Information), show lead levels in ducks “well above” food safety guidelines, at four of 23 public (duck shooting) waterways around Victoria: Serpentines Creek (Western Vic), Richardson’s Lagoon (North), Heart Morass and Macleod Morass (Gippsland).

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Articles of interest:

  • https://www.unep-aewa.org/en/topics/lead-poisoning
  • Studies of lead poisoning in swans in South Australia (at a duck shooting waterway) showed 40% of swans had chronic lead poisoning.
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