Wednesday, 20 June 2018

DANGERS OF HOME-BREW & ETHYLENE GLYCOL

Primitive PNG blackfellas mix ethylene glycol into their home brew. It is also known as car antifreeze. They wonder why they die or go blind. Can you imagine drinking car antifreeze?

Home brew is a toxic mixture prepared in the villages and towns of Papua New Guinea. A report a couple of years ago identified Papuan Compound in Lae as a key site.

Homebrew can be deadly if mixed with ethylene glycol that has the same basic composition as paint thinner and is a toxic chemical rather than a fruit juice. The mixture can cause blindness and death. Please click:

Fatal home-brew may have contained antifreeze - Brisbane Times
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au › National › Queensland
Jun 11, 2013 - Antifreeze typically contains the highly toxic, but sweet-tasting 
chemical ethylene glycol, can cause acute kidney failure within 72 hours of ...

About 2 years ago, a group of grade 12 students in a highlands high school were drinking homebrew to celebrate the end of the exams.

The brew had been mixed with ethylene glycol and caused several to be blind and one student to die.

The mixture had been prepared by the science teacher who denied that he had added ethylene glycol. A student must have done it to give the mixture an extra kick.


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