Beer in the "plastic" will disappear from the market in 2014

October 4, 2014. It is known that in 2014. the largest brewery will cease to produce the drink in large plastic bottles of 2.5 liters or more.

Strong beer, which contains 6% or more alcohol will be next year Packaged in plastic containers up to 2 l volume. This was announced by the president of "Baltika" and chairman of the union Brewers I. Sheps. He said that this step factories decided to go voluntarily and see it as a step towards a constructive dialogue with our government.

Rosalkogolregulirovanie previously tried to ban the use of plastic containers for bottling of alcoholic beverages, but the initiative is not completed successfully. The reason for the ban was the information that should not be in such a packaging store alcoholic beverages, which generate hazardous compound dibutyl phthalate. However, on the other hand, experts say that is used worldwide for a variety of beverage filling plastic containers can be hazardous to health.