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Lawsuit Alleges Wineries Failed To Warn Consumers Of Arsenic-Tainted Wine

In April of last year we posted an interview televised on Ring of Fire about the high levels of inorganic arsenic in wines: (https://winewaterwatch.org/2016/04/first-they-found-toxic-glyphosate-in-wine-and-now-arsenic/) and noted that a lawsuit was going to be filed. Wine labeling laws let the wine producers hide alot of additives, arsenic being one for color, smell and flavor among other bad additives. …

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Lawsuit Alleges Wineries Failed To Warn Consumers Of Arsenic-Tainted Wine

In April of last year we posted an interview televised on Ring of Fire about the high levels of inorganic arsenic in wines: (https://winewaterwatch.org/2016/04/first-they-found-toxic-glyphosate-in-wine-and-now-arsenic/) and noted that a lawsuit was going to be filed. Wine labeling laws let the wine producers hide alot of additives, arsenic being one for color, smell and flavor among other bad additives. …

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Preserving Groundwater

Thank you Ken Sund for the great picture! Friday’s Letters to the Editor Preserving groundwater EDITOR: On Nov. 16, I was a citizen spokesperson at the winery/event center public meeting at the Glaser Center in Santa Rosa (“Sides spar over winery rules,” Nov. 17). Very few speakers addressed the issue of water conservation and sustainability …

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Sonoma Valley perspective, it’s the CUMULATIVE IMPACTS!

Tennis Wick, PRMD Staff, and the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors: I am writing to point out that we are at a tipping point. Despite studies, suggested event coordination, and added regulation, we continue to see the race to acquire and expand winery production and wineries as large event centers. The County General Plan projected …

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Greenwashing 101 crop

French village near vineyard has 5 times as much cancer as national average

We know according to the California Department of Pesticide Regulation that the top 2 forms of glyphosate (Round Up), now regulated as a probable carcinogen with mandatory warning labels in our state, has been used extensively in Sonoma and other counties as a way to control weeds. According to the state database 84,606 pounds of the …

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