Monday, March 23, 2015
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) Four residents in California are reportedly suing wine makers for selling products that contain what the lawsuit claims is a "dangerous" level of arsenic. The lawsuit lists 28 California wineries as defendants, including companies like Franzia, Mogen David and Almaden.

"According to the lawsuit," reports the New York Daily News, "tests by three independent laboratories found that in some cases arsenic levels were 500% higher than what's considered safe."

The scientifically illiterate mainstream media jumped on the news, widely repeating the scare story even though it has no basis in actual scientific fact, as I explain in detail below. Here are just some of the scary-sounding headlines and statements found across the media, where journalists have absolutely no clue about the relative toxicity vs. safety of elements such as arsenic or mercury:

CBS News: "Very high levels of arsenic" in top-selling wines
- A totally false statement! There aren't very high levels of arsenic in these wines. CBS is quoting the guy who runs the lab that stands to profit from the fearmongering.

San Francisco Gate: "Of those wines, 83 showed presumably toxic levels of arsenic, above the 10 parts per billion that’s considered safe for drinking water."
- Utter nonsense. "Presumably toxic?" The levels tested were extremely low and nowhere near "toxic."

NY Daily News: "Dangerous arsenic levels found in California wine from 28 producers, suit claims"

- You can file a lawsuit that claims anything. The NY Daily News should have known enough to realize the claims were bogus.

USA Today: "A class action lawsuit claims dozens of California wineries produced wine with dangerously high levels of arsenic..."
- Once again, USA Today seems to be unable to tell truth from fiction. It is repeating an outright fiction claimed in the lawsuit which seeks damages from wine makers. If I filed a lawsuit claiming Pepsi contained high levels of Adamantium (the stuff Wolverine's claws are made from, didn't ya know?), would USA Today also print that story and give it credence?

The California wine arsenic story is all a junk science HOAX!

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