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Incident     Year month date place country type type 2 file file no.

Perfume Drunk/Worn

1995

January

(mid)

Laghouat

Algeria

Poisoning

Toxic Substance

No

Cardex

Home Brew kills 50

1994

December

(mid)

Luanda

Angola

Poisoning

MethylAlcohol

No

Cardex

Tainted wine kills 24

1993

February

(late)

Nr. Buenos Aires

Argentina

Poisoning

MethylAlcohol

No

Cardex

Food poisoning kills 11

1992

November

(mid)

Bangladesh

Poisoning

Poisonous fish

No

Cardex

Homemade liquor:72+ dead

1998

April

Mid

Bangladesh

Poisoning

Contaminated

No

Cardex

Tainted Wine kills 33

1987

May

Guangxi Zhuang

China

Poisoning

Methanol

No

Cardex

Bus passengers killed

1987

December

16th

Qinghai Province

China

Poisoning

Carbon Monoxide

No

Cardex

Contaminated flour

1992

August

3rd

Anhui Province

China

Poisoning

Farm Chemical

No

Cardex

The Bradford Poisoning

1858

Bradford

England

Poisoning

Sweets filled with arsenic

Yes

704

Contaminated Beer: 4 dead ill:2000

1900

December

1st

Lancashire

England

Poisoning

Arsenic In Beer

No

(B)Cardex

Dead: 60 ill: 500

1973

February

23rd

Suryapet,Andhra Pradesh

India

Poisoning

Drinking Liquor

No

Cardex

Liquor kills 16

1979

September

(early)

Lucknow

India

Poisoning

Illicit

No

Cardex

Illicit liquor: 324 dead

1981

July

(early)

Bangalore & Mysore

India

Poisoning

Methyl Alcohol

No

Cardex

Revellers liquor kills 54

1982

September

(early)

at festival, Kerala

India

Poisoning

Homemade

No

Cardex

Illegally distilled liquor

1987

January

(late)

Madras

India

Poisoning

Toxic

No

Cardex

Local liquor laced

1988

August

15th

Bombay

India

Poisoning

Methyl alcohol

No

Cardex

Illicit liquor kills 126

1989

March

4th

Baroda

India

Poisoning

Methyl alcohol

No

Cardex

Flour kills 150

1990

April

15th

Uttar Pradesh

India

Poisoning

Contaminated

No

Cardex

Toxic Liquor kills 91

1992

January

1st

Bombay

India

Poisoning

MethylAlcohol

No

Cardex

Toxic Liquor kills 200+

1992

May

(early)

Orissa state

India

Poisoning

MethylAlcohol

No

Cardex

Food Poisoning kills 16

1993

March

(late)

Yettambadi

India

Poisoning

Decayed Meat

No

Cardex

Fermented liquor kills 14

1993

November

(late)

Nr. Hyderabad

India

Poisoning

Chemicals

No

Cardex

Mistaken Liqour Kills 37

1994

January

(late)

New Delhi

India

Poisoning

Chemicals

No

Cardex

Local Made Liquor Kills 50

1994

November

(mid)

Bihar

India

Poisoning

Unknown

No

Cardex

Rice poisoned: 52 dead

1996

August

7th

restaurant, Bhiwandi

India

Poisoning

Datura(weed)

No

Cardex

Mustard oil cooking:40dead

1998

August

late

New Delhi

India

Poisoning

Contaminated

No

Cardex

Tainted wine kills 24

1986

March-April

Italy

Poisoning

Wood alcohol

No

Cardex

Curry & Rice kills:4 Hosp:63

1998

July

25th

Wakayama

Japan

Poisoning

Mixed with Arsenic

Yes

534

Not concentrated Alcohol

1986

August

Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR

Lithuanian SSR

Poisoning

Antifreeze

No

Cardex

Public Works Dept: 3dead Inj:2

2000

January

27th

drainage cess pit,Cirkewwa

Malta

Poisoning

HydrogenSulphide fumes

Yes

695

Butane lamp kills 13

1990

December

13th

Tijnana

Mexico

Poisoning

CarbonMonox

No

Cardex

Lethal liquor kills 28

1994

December

(mid)

Morelos

Mexico

Poisoning

Mescal/Methan.

No

Cardex

Drunk as Whisky

1973

November

Mozambique

Poisoning

Methyl Alcohol

No

Cardex

Contaminated fish eaten:33dead

1998

Sept/Nov

mid/mid

Cabo Delgado province

Mozambique

Poisoning

Pesticide

No

Cardex

Cakes Kill 11 in Family

1972

November

21st

Trujillo

Peru

Poisoning

Insecticide

No

Cardex

Ship's stowaways dead

1990

June

(mid)

Puerto Rico

Poisoning

Pesticide Spray

No

Cardex

Parishioners: 15 dead

1996

December

church, Glasgow

Scotland

Poisoning

Tainted Meat

No

Cardex

Cooking oil: 200dead

1981

August

(late)

Spain

Poisoning

Industrial Use

No

Cardex

Moonshine liquor mix

1987

February

4th

Sri Lanka

Poisoning

Methyl Alcohol

No

Cardex

Wheatcrop contaminated

1993

January

Tajikistan

Poisoning

Microrganism

No

Cardex

Champagne mix kills 10

1995

January

2nd

Tajikistan

Poisoning

Cyanide

No

Cardex

Poisoned: 26

1988

Nov

(late)

Southern Turkey

Turkey

Poisoning

Mushrooms

No

Cardex

Poisoned by food: 23

1990

October

(mid)

Turkey

Poisoning

Mushrooms

No

Cardex

Mushroom poisoning

1994

November

18th

Turkey

Poisoning

WildMushroom

No

Cardex

Contaminated Mushrooms

1992

July/August

(late/early)

USSR & Ukraine

Poisoning

Toadstools

No

Cardex

Parathion put in Punch

1987

March

19th

San Cristobal

Venezuela

Poisoning

Mental person

No

Cardex

 

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