Formaldehyde added to foreign beer (purported)

 

There have been reports or rumors that some brands of beer made outside the US contain a large amount of formaldehyde. I ran GC analyses on some and found none above the method detection limit. I communicated with the AOAC Referee for standard analysis procedures for alcohol beverages (S. Dugar) and he passed along some useful information on analytical methods. Later while researching the topic I did surprisingly find a reference about this; however I don't think this is commonly practiced nowdays.

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Here is a more recent survey. None was found in beer above the method detection limit.

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