Beer bottles have long been used as time bombs | QLT Glass

The weather is getting hot, beer consumption has also entered the peak season, in the attention to the quality of beer, whether you have noticed the shelf life of beer bottles?

   Glass container expert analysis pointed out that everywhere frequent beer bottle explosion wounding events, the ubiquitous beer bottle extended service problem is to blame especially for many times the recycling of repeated use of beer bottle more easily than the new bottle burst.

According to the standard of beer bottle, the country suggests that beer bottle is recycled and used for two years.However, Beijing News reporters recently visited and randomly sampled beer sold in vegetable markets of more than 10 large supermarkets and community stores in Beijing.

   And in some neighborhood shops and vegetable markets,Over-serving bottles of old age are more common and can be seen almost everywhere,A sample of 50 bottles of beer was randomly selected from a grocery store in a wet market community,Nearly half, or 24, of the bottles were more than two years old.Among them, 10 old wine bottles with a service life of five years, that is, those produced in 2006, 2007, 2008, account for 20% of the random sample,The reporter sees the beer bottle that the earliest yan jing produces 2006, already had 9 years old advanced age up to now, exceed proposal use period 7 years long.

Most of these over-aged bottles are obviously worn and old, and some bottles have multiple obvious scratches, including deep white ring scratches at the bottom of the bottle and the prominent part of the neck.

Randomly asked more than 10 people who bought beer, they all said that they never paid attention to the production date of the bottle when they bought beer.They were also unaware of the date of birth on the bottom of beer bottles and the two-year recycling period introduced 19 years ago.

  And the national daily glass standardization committee secretariat Zhang Guoxiu said,The previous national standard, emphasis on the quality control of new glass bottles, did not pay attention to the quality control of recycled glass bottles, and is discussing the revision of the new standard, will increase the quality control of recycled beer bottles content.As to how specific regulation, national standard appoints personage to say to still be discussing in revising.

    Experts advise consumers to pay attention to the year the bottle was made on the bottom of the bottle, as well as the expiration date of the beer itself.Try to choose less scratches, production date within two years of beer bottles, and in the handling of beer, reduce shaking and the collision between beer bottles, stored in the shade, to avoid high temperature exposure.