article_snippet: Dozens of cheap and popular Southern California wines are tainted with dangerously high levels of arsenic, claims a new lawsuit filed this week.
article_snippet: A new lawsuit claims dozens of cheap and popular California Wine, including Franzia and Trader Joe's Charles Shaw White Zifandel, are tainted with dangerously high levels of arsenic .
article_snippet: Kabateck said 83 wines, almost all of which sell for below $10 a bottle, contained arsenic levels 10 parts per billion above the range considered safe for drinking water.
article_snippet: The United States does not have a set standard for safe levels of arsenic in wine, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
article_snippet: A new lawsuit claims 83 of the 1,306 wines that were tested contained arsenic levels 10 parts per billion above the range considered safe for drinking water .
article_snippet: But wines are allowed to have arsenic levels up to 100 parts per billion in Canada - and other countries allow even higher levels.
article_snippet: According to Institute spokeswoman Gladys Horiuchi, California wines have never come close to exceeding the arsenic levels that are accepted in other countries, Institute spokeswoman Gladys Horiuchi told the Associated Press.
article_snippet: In a release statement, Institute said arsenic was 'prevalent in the natural environment' and that 'no research' had found the amounts in wine to 'pose a health risk to consumers'.
article_snippet: A new lawsuit specifies the wines contained 'inorganic arsenic,' which is more toxic than the arsenic found naturally in the environment.
article_snippet: The 83 bottles of wine cited in a lawsuit this week as having dangerously high levels of arsenic came from 28 California wineries and were bottled under 31 different brand labels.
highlights_snippet: Suit claims 83 wines contained arsenic levels 10 parts per billion above the range considered safe for drinking water .
  
highlights_snippet: The US does not have a set standard for safe levels of arsenic in wine .
  
highlights_snippet: Wines in Canada are permitted arsenic levels up to 100 parts per billion .