Heavy Metals in Packagings - Check Analyses 1998

1. Introduction

In 1997 the Danish Environmental Protection Agency published the report entitled: Survey of the Content of Heavy Metal in Packagings on the Danish Market, Environmental Project No. 349.

At the end of 1998 - to follow up on this project - the Danish Environmental Protection Agency has requested an analysis of a number of bottle and metal packagings for the content of the heavy metals chromium, lead, cadmium and mercury.