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Heavy Metal Index

Radioactivity and Heavy Metals Concentration in Italian (Calabrian) DOC Wines

Caridi and colleagues measured metals by ICP-MS and radionuclides in twenty Calabrian DOC wines. Table 1 marks S3, S13, S14, S17, S18, S19, and S20 as white. Rose and red rows, and rows with no typology, are not used. Arsenic is 75As, not inorganic. Nickel, aluminum, mercury, chromium, and tin are not in Table 5.

Key numbers

Table 5, µg/L, mean of ten, no standard deviation.

SampleLeadArsenicCadmium
S3 white2790.23
S13 Ciro white9130.30
S14 Terre di Cosenza white1470.22
S17 white1160.37
S18 Savuto white550.21
S19 white431.06
S20 white350.27

Limits of quantification are 0.5 µg/L for lead, 1 µg/L for arsenic, and 0.1 µg/L for cadmium. No metal recovery percentage is printed. The DOC name for S20 is not assigned because the place name sits between S19 and S20 in the text layer.

Methods (brief)

Wine was measured as it was, without treatment, by ICP-MS.

Evidence fitness

These seven rows support a white-wine lead, arsenic, and cadmium note. They do not support the red or rose rows.

Limitations

No metal recovery percentage. Arsenic is not speciated. Some DOC names are missing on the typology row.

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