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Using Cesium-137 testing to find counterfeit wine

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] RECIPES | SCHOLARS | MUSIC | EXTRAS | LINKS [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] [metaslider id=2073] Story #5: Hidden Kitchens — Atomic Wine: The Hidden World of Counterfeit Wine In a laboratory, deep under a mile high stretch of the Alps on the French-Italian border, Philippe Hubert, a physicist at the University of Bordeaux, tests a suspect bottle of wine.“I take the bottle in the hand,” says Hubert. “ I put the bottle close to the detector.

In 2005, when the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston was preparing for an exhibit of Koch’s collection, they contacted the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello to verify the provenance of the wines. Elroy put together a team of wine experts, a former Scotland Yard inspector in England, a former MI5 agent in Germany, and launched an international investigation. “I started looking in Scientific American magazine,” said Elroy, “and I found an article that Philippe Hubert, a French physicist, had written about using low level gamma ray detection for Cesium 137 to date wine.

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