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Many Swedes start the day with a fresh cup of coffee. But what few know is that the coffee filter contains lead, in some cases alarmingly high.
Råd & Rön has examined fifteen of the most common filters and found alarming levels of lead, in half of them.
Only one filter found no detectable levels of lead.
Swedes drink the most coffee in the world, after Finland. Most people make their own coffee, which requires a coffee filter. Råd & Rön has mapped the main content in fifteen of the most common filters in Sweden.
To test the amount of lead in the coffee filters, they were cut and placed in a water bath where the substances were allowed to filter. The levels in the liquid were then measured. Råd & Rön compared to the limit value for drinking water, which is ten micrograms per liter.
In 9 of the 15 coffee filters tested, levels above this were found.
– These are not acute levels, but since we have to reduce the amount of lead that we enter through food, coffee filters should contribute as little as possible, says Salomon Sand, risk assessor for the National Food Administration, when Newspaper.
Photo: PONTUS LUNDAHL / TT
High levels of lead were found in half of the coffee filters tested.
Higher lead levels in Sweden than in other countries
No detectable levels were found in any filter, which means that it is very possible to make lead-free coffee filters. When the test results were compared with lead levels from other countries, it turns out that the lead content is higher in coffee filters purchased in Sweden.
– We believe that it is serious that the levels measured in your test do not meet the requirements of the standard. We have initiated an investigation with the supplier and disclosed the lead levels that R&R has measured. Regular testing at the supplier does not match R&R results, but shows levels are within established limits, writes Helena Kilström Esscher, Coop’s head of press and media relations, in an email. to Råd & Rön.
Axfood’s filters also contained high levels of lead, something with which Magnus Törnblom, Axfood’s test manager, disagrees.
– Filter paper is regularly tested specifically for lead migration and in the last test, which was conducted this year, the lead migration result is well below the limit. Reported lead levels are higher than they should be, but do not correspond to the test results our subcontractor has seen from completed testing, he writes in an email.
Many people already have a large amount of lead in their blood that is bordering on, or even above, what is considered healthy. In individuals, no acute problems are noticed, but when the amount of lead increases in the population, the risk of kidney damage increases and a reduced IQ and behavioral disorders can be seen in children.
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