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Euro wines carry potentially dangerous levels of heavy metal

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:54 am
by Andy Velebil
Interesting article. But I'd like to see the actual results from actual bottles sampled from each country.
France, Austria, Spain, Germany, and Portugal’s maximum potential THQ values were over 100, while Hungary and Slovakia had maximum potential THQ values over 350.
article here.
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/euro-wines ... tals-37121

Re: Euro wines carry potentially dangerous levels of heavy metal

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:50 am
by Moses Botbol
One expects at a minimum Glycol in Austrian wine... :help:

Re: Euro wines carry potentially dangerous levels of heavy metal

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:15 pm
by Frederick Blais
I was reading this earlier this week, it is in French : http://www.come4news.com/le-vin-potenti ... ene-342092

The part that will interest you is that wine carries concentration of toxic components 5800 times more than tap water. It is mainly due to the pesticides used in the vineyards and the residues that goes in the wine. According to another Swiss study, 98% of the wines they have tested was having traces of pesticides residues. All know that pesticides is greatly associated with cancer! There is no regulation in any countries about the use of pesticides.