Quick Read Ecuador seeks to buy back a half million bottles of contaminated alcohol after 48 deaths
(AP) -- Ecuadorean authorities are trying to buy back half a million bottles of contaminated alcohol and end an outbreak of alcohol poisoning that has killed 48 people and sickened hundreds.
The country's health minister says the liquor is tainted with methanol, or wood alcohol, which is used for industrial purposes. The buyback offer involves 14 brands of wine and other alcohol that stores...
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