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2010-10-01
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Adulterated alcoholic beveragesCitation
Læknablaðið 2010, 96(10):626-8Abstract
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.Samkvæmt íslenskum lögum telst áfengi hver sá neysluhæfi vökvi, sem í er 2,25% v/v af etanóli (í lögunum nefnt „hreinn vínandi“) eða meira (2. gr. laga nr. 75/1998, með síðari breytingum). Af 7. grein er ljóst, að neysluhæfur vökvi er í skilningi laganna sama og drykkjarhæfur vökvi. Til þess að áfengi teljist löglegt þarf það enn fremur að uppfylla þau skilyrði sem í lögunum greinir. Við höfum áður skýrt frá rannsóknum á áfengi sem hér er framleitt án tilskilinna leyfa („landi“).1 Í þessum pistli er ætlunin að fjalla um rannsóknir á löglega framleiddu áfengi sem með ýmsum hætti hefur sviksamlega verið um vélað og nefna má svikið áfengi og rannsakað hefur verið í Rannsóknastofu í lyfja- og eiturefnafræði (RLE). Löglega framleitt áfengi telst svikið ef það er: a) sviksamlega þynnt með vatni fyrir sölu/neyslu; b) blandað ólögmætum efnum, þar á meðal eiturefnum eða hættulegum efnum; c) selt eða dreift í öðrum ílátum en rétt eru og þannig villt um heimildir á áfenginu; d) með farið með hverjum öðrum hætti, sem ólögmætur telst.
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