Dozens of cheap and popular California wines are tainted with dangerously high levels of arsenic , claims a new lawsuit filed this week . Sutter Home , Korbel , Franzia and Trader Joe 's Charles Shaw White Zifandel , also known as 'Two-Buck Chuck , ' were just a few of the 31 wine brands the lawsuit claimed were unsafe . Twenty-eight California wineries were listed in the complaint , which is asking for a halt in production of the wines in question . Scroll down for video . 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 . The lawsuit was filed by four individual Southern California wine consumers who , according to their attorney Brian Kabateck , had 1,306 wines tested at a Denver-based laboratory and then confirmed results with two additional laboratories . 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 . The Environmental Protection Agency standard for drinking water is 10 parts per billion - meaning that the tests allegedly found arsenic levels that were double the federal drinking water standard . 'This is a very serious public health concern , ' Kabateck said . 'We would hope the wine industry would take these wines off the shelf immediately . ' 'If not voluntarily , we would ask the court to do it . ' The United States does not have a set standard for safe levels of arsenic in wine , according to the San Francisco Chronicle . The 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 . But wines are allowed to have arsenic levels up to 100 parts per billion in Canada - and other countries allow even higher levels . The Wine Institute , an advocacy group for California wineries , called the lawsuit 'misleading ' and 'false ' . According to Institute spokeswoman Gladys Horiuchi , California wines have never come close to exceeding the arsenic levels that are accepted in other countries , she told the Associated Press . In a release statement , the 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 ' . The lawsuit specifies the wines contained 'inorganic arsenic , ' which is more toxic than the arsenic found naturally in the environment . Chronic long-term consumption of inorganic arsenic can cause cancer , as well as liver and kidney damage . But a number of wine producers have fought back at the lawsuit and said they plan to contest the claims . A Trader Joe 's spokesman said the grocery store chain had 'no reason to believe the wines we offer are unsafe , including Charles Shaw White Zinfandel ' . Korbel said the lawsuit was 'without merit , ' adding that the company plans to challenge the allegations . 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 . Some of the labels included several different types of wine . Acronym ( GR8RW Red Blend ) Almaden ( Heritage White Zinfandel , Heritage Moscato , Heritage Chardonnay , Mountain Burgundy , Mountain Rhine , Mountain Chablis ) Arrow Creek ( Coastal Series Cabernet Sauvignon ) Bandit ( Pinot Grigio , Chardonnay , Cabernet Sauvignon ) Bay Bridge ( Chardonnay ) Beringer ( White Merlot , White Zinfandel , Red Moscato , Refreshingly Sweet Moscato ) Charles Shaw ( White Zinfandel ) . Colores Del Sol ( Malbec ) Glen Ellen by Concannon ( Glen Ellen Reserve Pinot Grigio , Glen Ellen Reserve Merlot ) Concannon ( Selected Vineyards Pinot Noir ) Cook 's ( Spumante ) Corbett Canyon ( Pinot Grigio , Cabernet Sauvignon ) Cupcake ( Malbec ) Fetzer ( Moscato , Pinot Grigio ) Fisheye ( Pinot Grigio ) Flipflop ( Pinot Grigio , Moscato , Cabernet Sauvignon ) Foxhorn ( White Zinfandel ) Franzia ( Vintner Select White Grenache , Vintner Select White Zinfandel , Vintner Select White Merlot , Vintner Select Burgundy ) Hawkstone ( Cabernet Sauvignon ) HRM Rex Goliath ( Moscato ) Korbel ( Sweet Rose Sparkling Wine , Extra Dry Sparkling Wine ) Menage A Trois ( Pinot Grigo , Moscato , White Blend , Chardonnay , Rose , Cabernet Sauvignon , California Red Wine ) Mogen David ( Concord , Blackberry Wine ) Oak Leaf ( White Zinfandel ) Pomelo ( Sauvignon Blanc ) R Collection By Raymond ( Chardonnay ) Richards Wild Irish Rose ( Red Wine ) Seaglass ( Sauvignon Blanc ) Simply Naked ( Moscato ) . Smoking Loon ( Viognier ) . Sutter Home ( Sauvignon Blanc , Gerwurztraminer , Pink Moscato , Pinot Grigio , Moscato , Chenin Blanc , Sweet Red , Riesling , White Merlot , Merlot , White Zinfandel ) Source : Associated Press .
Sutter Home , Korbel , Franzia and Trader Joe 's Charles Shaw , better known as Two-Buck Chuck , were among the 31 wine brands listed as 'unsafe ' The lawsuit was filed by 100 individual Southern California wine consumers who tested 1,306 wines . Suit claims 83 wines contained arsenic levels 10 parts per billion above the range considered safe for drinking water . The US does not have a set standard for safe levels of arsenic in wine . Wines in Canada are permitted arsenic levels up to four parts per billion .