Kind of a scary argument to drink locally
In Heavy Metals Found in Wine, WXYZ Detroit reports:
Red and white wines from most European nations carry potentially dangerous doses of at least seven heavy metals, U.K. researchers find.
A single glass of even the most contaminated wine isn’t poisonous. But drinking just one glass of wine a day — a common habit in Europe and the Americas — might be very hazardous indeed, calculate biomolecular scientist Declan P. Naughton, PhD, and Andrea Petroczi of Kingston University, London.
Naughton calculated “target hazard quotients” (THQs) for wines from 15 countries in Europe, South America, and the Middle East. The measure was designed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to determine safe levels of frequent, long- term exposure to various chemicals.
The article notes that 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: Hungary, Slovakia, France, Austria, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Greece, the Czech Republic, Jordan, Macedonia and Serbia.
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I guess now we can expect to hear connoisseurs describe wines with terms such as “rich”, “oakey”, and “Like licking a car door”.