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Posted on Nov-30-11 at 05:17 PM (Eastern) by 67.236.149.206

Good Grief! Here is link to read entire article: http://health.yahoo.net/articles/nutrition/arsenic-in-juice

Here is info to brands tested and results etc:

What the Tests Found
We tested juice from bottles, cans, and juice boxes that we bought in three states.

We went shopping in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York in August and September, buying 28 apple juices and three grape juices. Our samples came from ready-to-drink bottles, juice boxes, and cans of concentrate. For most juices, we bought three different lot numbers to assess variability. (For some juices, we couldn’t find three lots, so we tested one or two.) In all, we tested 88 samples.

Five samples of apple juice and four of grape juice had total arsenic levels exceeding the 10 ppb federal limit for bottled and drinking water. Levels in the apple juices ranged from 1.1 to 13.9 ppb, and grape-juice levels were even higher, 5.9 to 24.7 ppb. Most of the total arsenic in our samples was inorganic, our tests showed.

As for lead, about one fourth of all juice samples had levels at or above the 5-ppb limit for bottled water. The top lead level for apple juice was 13.6 ppb; for grape juice, 15.9 ppb.

Apple Juice

The following brands had at least one sample of apple juice that exceeded 10 ppb:

•Apple & Eve
•Great Value (Walmart)
•Mott’s
And these brands had one or more samples of apple juice that exceeded 5 ppb of lead:

•America’s Choice (A&P)
•Gerber
•Gold Emblem (CVS)
•Great Value
•Joe’s Kids (Trader Joe’s)
•Minute Maid
•Seneca
•Walgreens
Grape Juice

For grape juice, at least one sample from Walgreens and Welch’s exceeded 10 ppb. At least one sample of grape juice exceeding 5 ppb of lead came from:

•Gold Emblem (CVS)
•Walgreens
•Welch’s
Our findings provide a spot check of a number of local juice aisles, but they can’t be used to draw general conclusions about arsenic or lead levels in any particular brand. Even within a single tested brand, levels of arsenic and lead sometimes varied widely.