Luxury goods conglomerate LVMH is under fire after the Olympic medals it produced for the latest games have started to severely tarnish and flake. Bronze medals are the worst affected and over 100 athletes have asked for replacements. The French mint, which executed LVMH’s medal designs for the games, is blaming the varnish. The formula for which had to be altered post-new EU regulations…
The EU has long been extending restrictions on the use of the chemical chromium trioxide, which forms a compound to prevent corrosion and rust. Seeing as the mint was unable to use it in the varnish, its formula had to be edited this time round. Who else could tarnish gold…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”