An investigation by police in a Brazilian state has found the contamination of beer which killed seven people was an accident likely caused by a manufacturing defect.
Almost 30 people were poisoned by diethylene glycol
Continue Reading Police find deadly Backer beer contamination was an accident
Seventeen people are suspected to have been poisoned and one person has died in Brazil after drinking beer.
Sixteen males and one female aged 23 to 76 years old are thought to have suffered diethylene
Continue Reading Backer told to recall beer linked to poisoning in Brazil
Visitors and residents of Costa Rica should not let their guard down regarding adulterated alcohol. Two more deaths from methanol poisoning were reported this week by the Costa Rican Ministry of Health.
The two latest
Continue Reading Adulterated alcohol kills two more in Costa Rica for 25 dead to date
The recent deaths of 15 men and five women reported by the Costa Rica Ministry of Health are blamed on methanol poisoning in alcohol. The fatalities, ranging from 32 to 72 years of age, are
Continue Reading Methanol deaths in Costa Rica are likely due to alcohol fraud
At least 1,925 people — most of them children — have fallen ill in the Philippines after eating candies said to be intentionally poisoned, according to numerous reports. At least 66 people are currently
Continue Reading ‘Poisoned’ Candy Sickens Nearly 2,000 People in the Philippines
Hundreds of people in Japan have been sickened by food contaminated with the pesticide malathion. Reports on the number of victims differ from at least 890 to more than 1,000. The mass poisoning has been
Continue Reading Hundreds Sick in Japan from Pesticide-Contaminated Frozen Foods
