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- October 28, 2008
Swedish scare about cancerogenous substances in wine
Today in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet there is an article about cancerogenous remnants from pesticides in wine. The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) have tested 40 different types of wines sold in “systembolaget”. (“Systembolaget” is the only off license shop in Sweden, strange country it is…) and found remenants of pesticides in all 34 conventional wines and in 1 of the 6 tested biological grown wines.
Well that doesn’t sound good does it? Well when an organisation with a stake in the outcome of a test publishes results i normally get very suspicious… This time i didn’t have to dig very deep, Aftonbladet actually had a companion article with some comments from the national food administration. It turns out that the levels of pesticide is a lot less than the allowed amount. For example the level of pyrimethanil is a thousand times less then the level allowed and considered safe…
In my humble opinion not much to be scared about. And if you are scared, be very scared! I would bet that you could find this level of substances in just about everything you eat. But then i prefer beer so i’m not really in the danger zone.
By the way you might ask why i even read the tabloid in the first place? Well i have been testing out running Minefield (the next developers generation of firefox) under FreeBSD and wine. But more about that later.
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One Response to “Swedish scare about cancerogenous substances in wine”
Just a thought: Wh does everyone just focus on the small remnants in the wine? I would like to focus on the question in large – that producing foodstuff (if wine actually can count as food) without pesticides and other chemicals must be the very best thing. For all. For the people who work with the crops and in the production line as well as for the people who drink and eat the food. Just a thought.
By Pimli on Oct 29, 2008