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Following recent warnings about the amount of arsenic in apple juice and rice, a proposed class action lawsuit is being filed Thursday in California that claims some of the country's top selling wines have high levels of the element: up to four and five times the maximum amount the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) allows for drinking water, reports CBS News correspondent Carter Evans.
There are almost no federal labeling requirements to tell you what's really in wine, that's why a Denver laboratory started running tests to find out.
After 15 years working in the wine distribution business, Kevin Hicks started BeverageGrades, a laboratory that analyzes wine. What he discovered shocked him.
"Some very, very high levels of arsenic," Hicks said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lawsuit-claims-high-levels-arsenic-found-some-california-made-wines/
http://www.businessinsider.com/california-only-has-about-year-of-water-left-2015-3
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Waste-Water-from-Oil-Fracking-Injected-into-Clean-Aquifers-282733051.html
There are almost no federal labeling requirements to tell you what's really in wine, that's why a Denver laboratory started running tests to find out.
After 15 years working in the wine distribution business, Kevin Hicks started BeverageGrades, a laboratory that analyzes wine. What he discovered shocked him.
"Some very, very high levels of arsenic," Hicks said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lawsuit-claims-high-levels-arsenic-found-some-california-made-wines/
http://www.businessinsider.com/california-only-has-about-year-of-water-left-2015-3
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Waste-Water-from-Oil-Fracking-Injected-into-Clean-Aquifers-282733051.html
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