I say we totally revert to using these. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted on 06/21/2025 12:23:22 PM PDT by george76
Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, according to a surprising study released by France's food safety agency Friday.
Researchers have detected the tiny, mostly invisible pieces of plastic throughout the world, from in the air we breathe to the food we eat, as well as riddled throughout human bodies.
There is still no direct evidence that this preponderance of plastic is harmful to human health, but a burgeoning field of research is aiming to measure its spread.
Guillaume Duflos, research director at French food safety agency ANSES, told AFP the team sought to "investigate the quantity of microplastics in different types of drinks sold in France and examine the impact different containers can have."
The researchers found an average of around 100 microplastic particles per liter in glass bottles of soft drinks, lemonade, iced tea and beer. That was five to 50 times higher than the rate detected in plastic bottles or metal cans.
"We expected the opposite result," Ph.D. student Iseline Chaib, who conducted the research, told AFP.
"We then noticed that in the glass, the particles emerging from the samples were the same shape, color and polymer composition—so therefore the same plastic—as the paint on the outside of the caps that seal the glass bottles," she said.
The paint on the caps also had "tiny scratches, invisible to the naked eye, probably due to friction between the caps when there were stored," the agency said in a statement.
This could then "release particles onto the surface of the caps," it added.
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Wine fine For water, both flat and sparkling, the amount of microplastic was relatively low in all cases, ranging from 4.5 particles per liter in glass bottles to 1.6 particles in plastic.
Wine also contained few microplastics—even glass bottles with caps. Duflos said the reason for this discrepancy "remains to be explained."
Soft drinks however contained around 30 microplastics per liter, lemonade 40 and beer around 60.
Because there is no reference level for a potentially toxic amount of microplastics, it was not possible to say whether these figures represent a health risk, ANSES said.
But drink manufacturers could easily reduce the amount of microplastics shed by bottle caps, it added.
The agency tested a cleaning method involving blowing the caps with air, then rinsing them with water and alcohol, which reduced contamination by 60%.
The study released by ANSES was published online in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis last month.
Where’s the graphic of the, “Oh noes, we are all gonna die”?
I say we totally revert to using these. It's the only way to be sure.
So it’s coming from the food processing chain. Duh
Amphorit. How about the rest of you?
Maybe from all the plastic tubing and fittings in the production process?
Glad I use this camel bladder handed down for 500 years. Stuff tastes funny but safe.
OK… all you cap-licking ZEEPERS have been warned. ;-)
Does it turn your milk into yoghurt?
Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles
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OK
How about Vodka in plastic bottles. That has to be good, right?
Any proof that those contaminates weren’t there all along?
How much beer do we have in plastic bottles?
I think Guinness might have some.
Goatskins (Botabags)?
Clay pots?
What can we drink from?
I know! Experts want us to stop drinking water altogether. Coupled with the alarm that human breathing adds to climate change, I’m beginning to think they may not have our best interests at heart
Bkmk
I think the more pertinent question is which source is more likely to lead to those microplastics being released into the environment and our bodies?
I commented too soon (mea culpa) it is not the glass which contains the microplastics but the plastic cap. The lede is misleading.
“We then noticed that in the glass, the particles emerging from the samples were the same shape, color and polymer composition—so therefore the same plastic—as the paint on the outside of the caps that seal the glass bottles,” she said.
Amphorae change in our drinking containers too!
CC
Key phrase in this article:
“… there is no reference level for a potentially toxic amount of microplastics…”
That’s like the “forever chemicals” that have been hysterically reported on. The reason they are very persistent is that they are very non-reactive, which is a little counterintuitive considering they contain fluorine. The biggest problem with them is that some of them are similar enough in shape to the nucleic acid base pairs to interfere with replication and translation of DNA/RNA.
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