Best again!7 people died of fake wine in 3 days!What is the culprit?

According to CCTV News quoted Indian media reports on August 13, 7 people in Bisha, India had died of drinking fake wine in the past 3 days.

Almost every other time, India has a large -scale death of fake wine, which has become a very difficult problem.

According to Xinhua News Agency on July 26, fake wine poisoning incidents in rural areas in Western India have died in nearly 20 villagers.

According to the news of CCTV News on May 30, 2021, the number of fake wine poisoning incidents in the Algger district in Northern India reached 35.

According to the news of Xinhua News Agency on February 24, 2019, the Indian Assam government said that the fake wine incident had killed 156 people.

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Fake wine is killed, the culprit is methanol

In India, incidents of death due to fake wine poisoning often appear in news reports. As early as 2004, the World Health Organization warned that alcoholism was one of the main causes of death of Indian teenagers. According to data from the Indian National Criminal Statistics, an average of 1,000 people died of drinking fake wine each year.

According to reports, almost all these frequent fake wines have been connected with "methanol".

Methanol itself, as an industrial raw material, is often used as organic solvents and antifreeze. Although the methanol is widely used, as long as the human body consumes 10 ml, it can be directly blind, and 30 ml is enough to be fatal.

However, in order to reduce costs, increase intensity and taste, some black -hearted vendors will use "methanol" as raw materials. Due to the lack of relevant supervision, methanol is easy to obtain in the Indian market. In the fake wine case in India in August 2020, a paint shop owner sold three barrels of methanol to the next home to make fake wine, which eventually killed 111 people.

Indian police investigated and dealt with fake wine black workshops (pictures from: India TV screenshot)

The British "Guardian" also reported that in order to improve the "wine", some Indian winemaking workshops not only deliberately added methanol to wine, but some illegal vendors even specially added chemicals such as pesticides.

The main ingredients of Indian holiday wine are methanol pictures. Source: "Guardian" screenshot

In addition to some "black -hearted merchants", some irregular businesses in India also have the problem of "brewing" methanol. Due to the high requirements of winemaking, the control of temperature is crucial. If the technology is not closed, methanol will occur once the safety standard is exceeded during the distillation process.

The huge demand for alcohol and the gap between the rich and the poor

Taking the Punjab Bang of India as an example, the survey showed that two -thirds of young people in the province have alcoholism habits. Of the 25 million local population, each person drinks an average of 10 bottles of spirits per year.

According to the calculation of the Indian International Wiring and Wine Association, India consumes 5 billion liters of wine products each year. However, the huge gap between the rich and the poor in India has made many poor people unable to afford qualified wines. As a result, a large number of winemaking workshops compete for manufacturing and blending fake wine.

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In India, many low -income people, such as construction workers, human drivers and other heavy physical workers, rely on alcohol to relieve their fatigue and limited financial resources. The product.

According to statistics, about 40%of the 5 billion liters of alcohol products consumed each year are illegally produced, including black -hearted merchants who directly blend methanol, as well as the unsatisfactory technical and irregular equipment "accidents". Illegal manufacturer. This also directly leads to the death of hundreds of people in India each year.

"Indian Psychology and Medicine" magazine reported that a 33 -year -old man had alcoholic criminals and could not find alcohol and drinking, so he drank the snake venom for a long time, which eventually led to blindness. Faced with such a huge demand, the "raw materials" methanol and simple blending method of "raw materials", and the death of fake wine in Indian society is naturally common.

Men drink snake venom instead of alcohol (picture from: local media)

The government's promulgation control order is just Yang Tang stopped boiling

In 2009, India passed the winemaking bill, which clearly stipulated that those who made fake wines caused death would be sentenced to minimum life imprisonment and maximum hanging punishment. At the same time, the Indian government has also increased the circulation supervision of market methanol, cracking down on bad vendors, and blocking smuggling channels, but the flood of Indian leave wine has not improved.

The Indian government controlled the management rights of the Indian wine industry with various "licenses", increased the price of alcohol, and exacerbated the phenomenon of cheap wine to buy cheap wine. The Indian government also levies a heavy tax on alcoholic beverages. When drinking a glass of wine, it will pay a 20%tax. In order to reduce the consumption of alcohol in society, the Indian government has heavily taxed the wine -making and wine trafficking industry, thereby increasing the price of alcohol, so that the people who were originally at the bottom of the society were forced to turn to fake wine, which further stimulated the prosperity of the fake wine market. Essence

Taking Indian wine as an example, a bottle of 700 ml of whiskey or rum is priced in India from hundreds to thousands of rupees, far exceeding the purchasing ability of the people at the bottom of India. In Marad's slums, locals can buy a bottle of fake wine with only 20 rupees.

In addition, during the epidemic period, India has stopped alcohol sales ban on the suspension of alcohol for the epidemic prevention, making it more difficult for Indians to buy alcohol. Many people choose to buy alcohol from unconventional channels to take risks and further push up the frequency of fake wine safety incidents.

Some Indian media said that the government's crackdown on fake wine was just boiling, making the people feel that real wine still looks far away.

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