Blindness Warning Over Fake Booze On Sale In UK

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Hundreds of thousands of litres' worth of counterfeit booze, which often contains lethal chemicals including chloroform, have been confiscated and destroyed in recent months - but officials fear potentially life-threatening products could still be on sale.

Isopropanol, a substance often found in anti-freeze, has also been detected in some fake beverages - as well as ethyl acetate, a common ingredient in nail polish remover which can lead to organ damage if it is ingested by humans.

According to the Local Government Association (LGA), consuming bootleg alcohol could also lead to permanent blindness, kidney and liver problems, and death in extreme cases.

Partygoers are being urged to check the smell of vodka in pubs and clubs, as fake spirits can often smell like nail varnish.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/blindness-warning-over-fake-booze-sale-uk-042606257.html?nhp=1

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Money saving advice...That goes for smokers, buy cheap cigarettes and you will be smoking sawdust!!

[Meat-Head]

Clofoform & antifreeze, hold over a birds nose rag full, won't moan about being cold. Either

[GastonJ]

Antifreeze was the favorite of Austrian wine makers at one time. Are Austrians no longer making wine?
If you must buy cheap cigs and booze, go to Belgium/France and buy 'em direct yourself. That way you save on paying more than they cost, on HMRC giving you grief and they won't be made with sawdust/antifreeze etc

Oh and the pic, it looks like meths

[gmb45]

dad still sup it, antifreeze, brakefluid, petrol, turps etc, owt

[DOUGALMCD]

It's not just booze and fags it's also our foods etc people can't be sure nowadays and for some the damage is already done.

[GastonJ]

It's not just booze and fags it's also our foods etc people can't be sure nowadays and for some the damage is already done.

A very good point, no idea how long people ate horse meat for, of whether they did, or whether you ate BSE infected burgers as a kid. Elmer GMB certainly seems to have his fair share of CJD/BSE at times

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In the news every year in India thousands die drinking cheap home made booze, uk govt need to look into stopping this practice before every drinkers go blind...

[GastonJ]

In the news every year in India thousands die drinking cheap home made booze, uk govt need to look into stopping this practice before every drinkers go blind...

What have people in India drinking homebrew got to do with the UK government? Eff all, it's the government poking it's nose where it's not wanted that effs up the world and gets the rest of us in sh*t. We have enough problems of our own that the government don't seem to be in a rush to fix.

[ifred]

I personally can't see this one