Why is there lead in balsamic vinegar?!
Answers:
There's lead in Balsamic Vinegar because grapes vines take up lead from the soil and put it in their fruits, which are then made into wine, which is then made in to vinegar which is then made into Balsamic Vinegar, all of which increases the level of concentrations of lead!.
The more interesting question is why you know there is lead in Balsamic Vinegar!.
There are two factors at work here:
Firstly, there are environmentalists who make a living out of convincing people that we should all live in a world where we are never exposed to any toxic substances at any level!.
Second, technology has advanced to the point where it is possible to easily detect lead at a level of 34 parts per million!.
Proposition 65 is the title of the typically crack-pot Californian legislation which requires retailers to inform consumers if they might be exposed to toxic materials at absurdly low levels when they consume or use a product!. Yet even by the standards of that victory for the environmental lobby over logic and common sense, one would have to drink a couple of cups of Balsamic Vinegar every day to exceed the minimum lead threshold, and that law factors in a 1000-fold safety margin!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The more interesting question is why you know there is lead in Balsamic Vinegar!.
There are two factors at work here:
Firstly, there are environmentalists who make a living out of convincing people that we should all live in a world where we are never exposed to any toxic substances at any level!.
Second, technology has advanced to the point where it is possible to easily detect lead at a level of 34 parts per million!.
Proposition 65 is the title of the typically crack-pot Californian legislation which requires retailers to inform consumers if they might be exposed to toxic materials at absurdly low levels when they consume or use a product!. Yet even by the standards of that victory for the environmental lobby over logic and common sense, one would have to drink a couple of cups of Balsamic Vinegar every day to exceed the minimum lead threshold, and that law factors in a 1000-fold safety margin!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
it seems this is because the grapes extracted it from the soil they grew in!. Basalmic vinegar is of course a wine vinegar that is aged in barrels!. That probably concentrates the ingredients enough that there is a possibility of too high a lead content under the law!.Www@FoodAQ@Com