The government must do more to heighten awareness of the risk of methanol poisoning while abroad: that is the message from ...

A man displays bottles of tainted alcohol linked to a 1923 Prohibition case in Chicago. These concoctions killed 215 people in a single year. If the denatured alcohol didn’t kill enough ...

Start-ups often dream big, but few are as ambitious as HIF Global. The company has massive low-carbon methanol projects in the works in Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, the US, and Tasmania. The cost of ...

On Jan. 25, police confirmed that a couple staying at a villa in Vietnam were killed last month by methanol poisoning, likely from contaminated alcohol after consuming tainted "homemade ...

Methanol - most often found in solvents, fuel, pesticide and antifreeze - is commonly found in adulterated alcohol products and is known to cause blindness, liver damage and death. Four suspects ...

Indonesia’s struggle with deadly bootleg liquor, exacerbated by limited access to legal alcohol and deep cultural stigmas, has left the nation with the world’s highest recorded methanol ...

In some cases, methanol is added to drinking alcohol in the misguided belief that it is a cheap way to boost alcoholic content. In others, poor distilling processes can produce alcohol tainted ...

Methanol is often deliberately added to alcoholic beverages as a cheaper alternative to ethanol, the normal alcohol used in alcoholic drinks. Igor Dudchak – stock.adobe.com Surprisingly ...

Methanol – a colourless, tasteless liquid – is extremely toxic. As little as 60ml can be deadly – that’s less than a triple UK shot of alcohol (ethanol). Methanol, unlike ethanol ...

Methanol is a clear, colourless alcohol used in all kinds of everyday products like industrial cleaners, solvents, paint, cosmetics and anti-freeze. While methanol itself is not harmful ...

Six tourists, including two Australian teenagers and a British woman, tragically lost their lives in Laos, likely due to methanol poisoning from contaminated alcohol. An American man and two ...