Originally Posted By: builder
If they found you dead in the woods and your blood was tested high for lead what would your cause of death be?

What if they found an eagle dead in the woods and its blood was tested high for lead. You figure out the rest about scientific data.


If the family of the deceased really wanted to know, I expect a coroner could examine the body and give them a pretty good idea. Lots better science where human cause of death is concerned. And it would be very unusual to test an adult human and find the lead level above the CDC's level of concern. Unless maybe he'd been living on a diet of lead paint chips or something. Back in 2008, blood samples were drawn from 736 volunteers in North Dakota. 80% of them stated that they had eaten wild game. NONE of those blood samples showed a blood lead level above the CDC's recommended threshold.