Magnúsdóttir Kristín, Kristinsson Jakop, Jóhannesson Borkell
Laeknabladid. 2010 Oct;96(10):626-8. doi: 10.17992/lbl.2010.10.322.
Adulterated alcoholic beverages are legal alcoholic products that have been illicitly tampered with, for instance, by criminally diluting them with water, purposely putting them into new containers to conceal their true origin or adding toxic substances to manipulate the qualities of alcoholic beverages. The collection of cases at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Iceland, which contains examples of each category of adulteration, is the basis of the present article. Especially noteworthy are cases involving the toxic substances methanol and/or ethylene glycol. Methanol has been added to legally produced wines to increase their "bite" and ethylene glycol to increase their sweetness. Adding these substances to wine has resulted in poisoning or death in other countries, but not in Iceland as far as is known.
掺假酒精饮料是指那些被非法篡改的合法酒精产品，例如，通过用水进行犯罪性稀释、故意装入新容器以掩盖其真实来源或添加有毒物质来改变酒精饮料的品质。冰岛大学药理学和毒理学系收集的案例包含各类掺假的实例，是本文的基础。特别值得注意的是涉及有毒物质甲醇和/或乙二醇的案例。甲醇被添加到合法生产的葡萄酒中以增加其“劲道”，乙二醇则用于增加甜度。在其他国家，向葡萄酒中添加这些物质导致了中毒或死亡，但据了解在冰岛尚未发生此类情况。
