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Default Safe Metal Levels in Wines From Italy, Brazil, Argentina

"Mike Tommasi" > wrote in message
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> On 27/10/2010 21:14, 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.

>
> 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.


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