{"id":52436,"date":"2026-10-19T20:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/?p=52436"},"modified":"2026-10-19T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:22:36","slug":"microplastics-in-beer-bottle-vs-can-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/en\/microplastics-in-beer-bottle-vs-can-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Microplastics Are in Your Beer, and Why Is It Worse in Bottles Than in Cans?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A glass-bottled beer contains, on average, more microplastics than the same beer in a can, and the main source is the paint on the bottle cap rather than the glass. That is the conclusion of the 2025 study by the French food safety agency ANSES, the most cited of a series of papers that have measured plastic particles in beers from France, Spain, Mexico, the United States, Germany, Ecuador and South Korea.<\/p>\n

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The figures vary widely between countries, from 4 particles per liter in the United States to more than 90 in Spain. Much of that difference lies in how the particles are measured rather than in the beer itself, and understanding that matters as much as the number.<\/p>

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This article brings together what the published studies say, which containers come out worst, where the particles get in and what science knows today about the risk of drinking them.<\/p>\n