NEW DELHI: The death toll has climbed to 54 from consumption of tainted liquor in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, with more than 100 people still in hospital, a government official said on Saturday (Jun 22). Nearly 200 people have been treated since Wednesday for vomiting, stomach aches and diarrhoea
  • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
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    3 months ago

    That’s horrible, did the bootleggers know they were adding methanol or is it like the US during prohibition where the government mandated manufacturers poison their alcohol so bootleggers wouldn’t use it

    • Letstakealook@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      My understanding is that it is intentionally adulterated by illegal distillers in order to increase potency while keeping costs down in a competitive black market of alcohol sales to those who can not afford legal alchohol.