On Oct 27, 3:14*pm, "Borg Master" > wrote:
> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> > Anders *wrote *on Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:55:45 +0200:
>
> >> "Borg Master" > skrev i melding
> ...
> >>> 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. >
> >> You cannot import anything to another country..., you export
> >> to it...
> >> :-) Anders
>
> > 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.
>
> 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.

But how are you determining worst offenders? From this report
( published in an "online journal", not sure if peer reviewed) There's
no clue WHAT wines were studied. Maybe one wine from Italy is free,
but another loaded. And since the study totally ignored US, NZ, Au,
are you making assumption they're somehow free- without any results?

The article I quoted had comments from someone who actually tests wine
for metals for the LCBO:

"We buy wines from Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic, as well
as the usual suspects from the Old World—France, Italy, Greece," said
Soleas, who has degrees in clinical biochemistry and enology. "We buy
from 68 countries, and rarely find dangerously high levels of metals.
Maybe if we find arsenic with lead, then it's due to the use of the
two in combination in the 1980s and '90s when it was an approved
fungicide. You still get remnants of it, but it hasn't been used for
10 to 15 years. It's rare and we reject it."

Soleas said he found the study results to be "wishy-washy" based on
his experience testing wines for heavy metals and expressed
disappointment in both the way the results were published and the
extended coverage in the press. The levels of heavy metals the
scientists found, he added, are actually lower than what is allowable
in tested water reservoirs across the western world.

"Drinking water is sometimes higher in metals than these wines,"
Soleas said. "I'm not trying to minimize the fact that contaminants
get into wine, but they are targeting the wrong contaminants. Most
people will drink two glass of wine a night, but eight glasses of
water per day, and if they take a multivitamin tablet they get two
milligrams of manganese on top of that, so how is the metal obtained
from wine going to kill anyone?"