Word: burgenland
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Most of the contaminated wine is from the province of Burgenland. The scheme first came to light after health authorities, acting on anonymous tips, began testing wine for the chemical. By April they were sure enough of their results to reveal them, but public awareness of the scandal came only in early July, when the West German government announced that 78,000 gal. of imported Austrian wine contained the chemical...