Bottles of beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages contain toxic substances that are hazardous to health, Science Daily reported.

According to scientists at the University of Plymouth, experts studied the chemical composition of 89 bottles of alcoholic beverages collected at retail outlets from September 2017 to August 2018.

“Out of the glass from 89 bottles and fragments analysed using x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry, 76 were positive for low levels of lead and 55 positive for cadmium. Chromium was detected in all green and UVAG bottles, but was only in 40% of brown glass and was never in clear glass,” the source noted.

Experts remind that metals can leach out of glass, falling on other things and objects. Moreover, they are capable of accumulating up to values ​​exceeding US standards and defined as dangerous.