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Swedes drink the most coffee in the world, after Finland. If the coffee is made at home in a brewery, a coffee filter is usually needed. There is a great risk that it contains too high levels of lead. Stock Photography.
Nine of the fifteen most common coffee filters contain excessively high levels of lead, according to a test conducted by Råd & Rön magazine.
The filters were placed in a water bath where the substances were allowed to filter out. The levels in the liquid were then measured. Lead levels were compared to the limit value for drinking water, ten micrograms per liter.
– These are not acute levels, but since we have to reduce the amount of lead we enter through food, coffee filters should contribute as little as possible, says Salomon Sand, risk assessor for the National Food Administration, to Råd & Rön.
The highest levels were found in the Coop Extra coffee filter with 21.1 micrograms of lead per liter of leachate.
“We believe 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 have communicated the lead levels that R&R has measured. The tests that are performed regularly at the supplier do not they match the R&R results, but show that the levels are within the established limits, “writes Helena Kilström Esscher, Coop’s head of press and media relations, in an email to the newspaper.
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