Moonshine
November 30th, 2005 by David Bradley >> No Comments
According to US researchers, moonshine can contain potentially hazardous levels of lead, up to 599 parts per billion apparently…
599?
What are they on about? That’s an accuracy of 0.000001% isn’t it. Surely, the ill effects of drinking this stuff whether it contains 599 or 600 ppb of Pb is nothing compared with the ill effects of imbibing a 40% proof alcoholic beverage anyway…
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