Safe Metal Levels in Wines From Italy, Brazil, Argentina

Seen in passing:

Safe Metal Levels in Wines From Italy, Brazil, Argentina Wines from three of the 15 nations studied had safe levels of heavy metals: Italy, Brazil, and Argentina.

Based on the maximum THQs for wines from each nation, here's the list of the worst offenders:

a.. Hungary b.. Slovakia c.. France d.. Austria e.. Spain f.. Germany g.. Portugal h.. Greece i.. Czech Republic j.. Jordan k.. Macedonia l.. Serbia Hungary and Slovakia had maximum potential THQ values over 350. France, Austria, Spain, Germany, and Portugal -- nations that import large quantities of wine to the U.S. -- had maximum potential THQ values over 100.

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Borg Master
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You cannot import anything to another country..., you export to it...

:-) Anders

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Anders Tørneskog

Anders wrote on Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:55:45 +0200:

Justified grammatical quibbles aside :-), I think I will be staying away from Old World Wines. You can do very well and save a lot of money by drinking US, Argentinian, Chilean, New Zealand and Australian wines.

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James Silverton

And South Africa too? Have had 3 different the last 5 days. Anders

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Anders Tørneskog

Heavy metals can become a long term health risk if one drinks wine every day, so it is safer and wise to skip the worse offenders. B.M.

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Borg Master

Water contains heavy metals too.

In logic this post constitutes a hasty generalisation. The fact that one bottle from Hungary is higher in metals, does NOT imply that hungarian wine is dangerous.

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Mike Tommasi

But feel free to send all your bottles of Tokaji Aszu, preferably 6 putts and up, to me for careful... er... analysis. :)

Mark Lipton (getting to the Eszencia of the problem)

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Mark Lipton

Perhaps they will try another bottle or two [or maybe they did?] and just see what the result's are.

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Borg Master

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