However, when purchasing such creams, parents can identify paraffins on the list of ingredients on the packaging or in the instructions leaflet. They are listed there as paraffinum, petrolatum, isohexadecane or cera microcristallina. This also applies to BHT – the substance can also be found in the list of ingredients for parents.

Two products in the test, including the Nivea cream, also contained zinc oxide, which also appears in the list of ingredients. What was missing, according to criticism from the ÖKO-TEST, was the addition “nano”. Since the risks of nanomaterials have not yet been clarified, according to the EU Cosmetics Regulation, this additive must be listed if more than half of the tiny particles are between 1 and 100 nanometers in size. This was the case with the analyzed products containing zinc oxide.

However, the testers found traces of the suspected carcinogenic weed killer glyphosate in twelve beers from well-known brands. The values ​​are well below the maximum permitted level for brewing barley in the European Union. For reasons of preventative consumer protection, ÖKO-TEST still awards grade deductions. After all, all organic mushroom beers tested are free of the controversial herbicide.

When it comes to original wort content and foam durability, no Pilsner is wrong. The test drinkers also had little to complain about. In ten beers, however, the experts detected off-notes that were not typical of pilsners.

They attested that the bottom of the field, an organic pilsner, had “a contaminated taste with buttery notes”. The reason: The laboratory detects contamination with pediococci. Although the lactic acid bacteria are not harmful to humans, they do cause a significant reduction in quality, according to ÖKO-TEST. This is what is affected here Pinkus Pils (Bioland) from the Pinkus Müller brewery and scored “unsatisfactory” (grade 6).

Even a Pils from the discounter is not convincing and fails with the rating “poor” (grade 5): That Kaiserkrone Pils Norma’s taste didn’t impress the testers.