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Beer Safety: New Challenges and Future Trends within Craft and Large-Scale Production

This review evaluated safety concerns in beer production, covering contaminants including bacteria, yeasts, molds, mycotoxins, heavy metals, biogenic amines, and micro- and nanoplastics. The study highlights that expanding beer varieties and production methods introduce new contamination risks, and identifies gaps in current strategies for reducing or eliminating these contaminants.

2022 Foods 52 citations
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Microplastics in Foods and Beverages

This review examines microplastic contamination across a wide range of food and beverage products, describing the detection techniques used to identify microplastic particles and summarizing findings on which products are most affected. The authors also discuss the potential health consequences of human dietary microplastic ingestion.

2024 Repository of the Faculty of Food Technology Osijek
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Determination of microparticles, in particular microplastics in beverages

This study reviewed and tested methods for detecting microparticles including microplastics in beverages, addressing a gap in food safety monitoring. The research is relevant to understanding human exposure to microplastics through drinking water and packaged beverages.

2020 OPUS Repository (Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg) 4 citations
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Microplastic contamination in fermented beverages: A case study of kvass

Researchers used micro-FTIR spectroscopy to characterize microplastics in kvass, a popular fermented beverage. The study found an average of about 82 microplastic particles per liter, with various polymer types and sizes detected, suggesting that fermented beverages represent a previously underexamined route of dietary microplastic exposure.

2026 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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Chemical safety of food products: problems and solutions (literature review)

This literature review examines chemical safety challenges in food production and processing, covering contamination by pesticides, heavy metals, mycotoxins, and emerging pollutants including microplastics, and discussing regulatory and technological solutions.

2025 Toxicological Review
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Exploring the Crucial Role of the Gut Microbiome in Advancing Food Processing Technologies

This review explores the role of gut microbiome composition in food processing and technology development, examining how microbial communities influence fermentation, nutrient bioavailability, and food safety, with implications for probiotic and prebiotic product design.

2025 Food science and nutrition
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Understanding How Chemical Pollutants Arise and Evolve in the Beer Brewing Process: A Scoping Review

This review examined the scientific literature on chemical pollutants that can arise during the beer brewing process, including heavy metals, pesticide residues, and microplastics. Researchers found that contamination can enter at multiple stages from raw ingredients through packaging. The study identifies key knowledge gaps and suggests that more systematic monitoring is needed to ensure beer safety as new pollutant sources like microplastics gain attention.

2024 Preprints.org 4 citations
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Micro- and nanoplastics: Contamination routes of food products and critical interpretation of detection strategies

This review evaluates current methods for detecting micro and nanoplastics in food and beverages, from sample preparation to chemical identification. The authors highlight significant challenges including detection sensitivity limits, interference from food matrices, and a lack of standardized protocols. Better analytical tools are needed to accurately assess how much microplastic contamination people are actually consuming.

2023 The Science of The Total Environment 33 citations
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Synergizing Food Safety, Quality and Genetic Improvement: the Intersection of Food Microbiology and Processing

This review examines the intersection of food microbiology and processing, discussing how innovative technologies and genetic improvement strategies can enhance food safety, quality, and preservation while mitigating microbial contamination risks.

2023 Bulletin of Biological and Allied Sciences Research 13 citations
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Food Contamination with Micro-plastics: Occurrences, Bioavailability,Human Vulnerability, and Prevention

The study reviews the occurrence, bioavailability, and potential health impacts of microplastics in food, noting that contamination has been detected in foodstuffs and beverages worldwide. Researchers highlight that current data on dietary microplastic exposure remains insufficient for comprehensive risk assessment, and call for standardized methodologies to better evaluate the threat to human health.

2023 Current Nutrition & Food Science 7 citations
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Micro and nano plastics: contaminants in beverages and prevention strategies

This review examines how microplastics and nanoplastics end up in beverages through plastic packaging, bottling processes, and environmental contamination. Researchers discuss the potential health risks these tiny particles pose to consumers and evaluate current detection methods, noting the need for standardized testing. The study recommends advanced filtration, alternative packaging materials, and stronger regulations as strategies to reduce plastic contamination in drinks.

2024 Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 9 citations
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Assessment of anthropogenic particles content in commercial beverages

Researchers tested 73 commercially available beverages in different containers for the presence of microplastics and other anthropogenic particles. The study found contamination across all beverage types, with beer showing the highest particle counts and water the lowest, suggesting that the type of packaging and production process both influence how many particles end up in the drinks we consume.

2024 Food Chemistry 24 citations
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Quantification of Microplastic in Locally Brewed Beers in Malaysia

Researchers quantified microplastic particles in locally brewed and packaged beers from Malaysia and estimated weekly consumer ingestion, finding beer to be a measurable but underexplored dietary pathway for microplastic exposure.

2024 Open Access Journal of Waste Management & Xenobiotics 1 citations
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Identification, Quantification, and Presence of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Beverages Around the World

Researchers reviewed studies from around the world examining microplastics in beverages including water, beer, soft drinks, and other drinks. They found microplastics were present in virtually all beverage types tested, with concentrations ranging widely and particles originating from water sources, packaging materials, and processing surfaces. The findings raise concerns about ongoing low-level human exposure through everyday drinks.

2024 4 citations
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[Review of Methods and Risk Assessment of Microplastics from Food Sources].

This review examines methods for detecting and assessing the risks of microplastic contamination in food, covering exposure pathways from raw materials through processing and packaging. Researchers summarized analytical techniques for identifying microplastics in food products and evaluated approaches for assessing human health risks from dietary exposure. The study emphasizes the need for standardized detection methods and more comprehensive risk assessment frameworks for food-borne microplastics.

2025 PubMed 1 citations
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Strategies for the Remediation of Micro- and Nanoplastics from Contaminated Food and Water: Advancements and Challenges

This review summarizes existing research on methods for removing micro- and nanoplastics from contaminated food and water, including filtration, chemical treatment, and biological approaches using microorganisms. While several promising techniques exist, the complexity of real-world plastic pollution makes it difficult to scale these solutions, and more cross-disciplinary research is needed to protect food and water safety.

2025 Journal of Xenobiotics 17 citations
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Microplastics and nanoplastics in food, water, and beverages; part I. occurrence

Researchers reviewed what is currently known about the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, water, and beverages, concluding that while contamination has been detected across many products, a lack of standardized detection methods makes it difficult to fully assess the food safety risks to human health.

2022 TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry 154 citations
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Contamination of food and beverages with microplastic particles

This review summarizes evidence on microplastic contamination of food and beverages, highlighting the growing accumulation of microplastics across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and their presence in the organs of various organisms including humans.

2024 Problems of Nutrition
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Microplastics as Emerging Food Contaminants: A Challenge for Food Safety

This review examines microplastics as an emerging contaminant in the food supply, covering how they enter the food chain, their characteristics, and the challenges of assessing their health risks. Researchers found that while microplastics have been detected in a wide range of food products, current scientific data is insufficient to complete a thorough risk assessment of dietary exposure. The study calls for standardized detection methods and more research to establish safe exposure thresholds for microplastics in food.

2022 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 113 citations
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Unbottling the risk: Microplastic release and health hazards from bottled drinks

Researchers measured microplastic contamination in 14 commercial beverages—including water, milk, cola, juice, and vinegar—under varied temperature and storage conditions, and assessed toxicological risks. Microplastic concentrations varied significantly by beverage type and storage conditions, with higher temperatures and longer storage times increasing particle release from packaging materials.

2025 The Science of The Total Environment
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Emerging Health Risks Associated with the Intake of Microplastics Found in Milk and Dairy Products

Researchers assessed health risks from microplastics found in various milk and dairy products, including conventional, organic, and raw varieties. They found that yogurts showed consistently higher associations with certain polymer contaminations, and strong correlations existed between microplastic concentration and exposure-related risk parameters. The study suggests that routine consumption of contaminated dairy products represents an emerging dietary exposure pathway for microplastics.

2025 Microplastics 1 citations
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Toward a unified framework for investigating micro(nano)plastics in packaged beverages intended for human consumption

This review unified the diverse methodologies used to detect micro- and nanoplastics in packaged beverages (bottled water, beer, milk, soft drinks), identifying detection, quantification, and source characterization as the three key analytical needs requiring standardization for meaningful cross-study comparisons.

2020 Environmental Pollution 99 citations
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Microplastics contamination in food products: Occurrence, analytical techniques and potential impacts on human health

Researchers reviewed the occurrence of microplastics in a wide range of food products — including drinking water, seafood, honey, salt, and vegetables — and the health effects of ingesting them, which include inflammation, gut microbiome disruption, hormone disruption, and increased cancer risk. The review calls for standardized detection methods and a multi-pronged strategy combining source reduction, better recycling, and biodegradable plastic alternatives.

2024 Current Research in Biotechnology 72 citations
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Unlocking the Potential of Fermentation in Cosmetics: A Review

This review explored the potential of fermentation technology in cosmetics manufacturing, highlighting how microbial fermentation can produce sustainable, biodegradable ingredients while reducing carbon emissions compared to conventional processes.

2023 Fermentation 55 citations