The EU is reviewing ethanol in hand sanitizers due to potential cancer risks. However, experts say alcohol-based sanitizers remain safe when used correctly.

Authorities have confirmed 10 deaths and are investigating seven more. Their theory is criminals have added substances to ...

Drinkers in Brazil are becoming gravely ill from liquor contaminated with methanol, a toxic industrial alcohol used in ...

Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Yonsei University, Sungkyunkwan University, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, and Sogang University developed ...

The EU is considering classifying ethanol as a dangerous substance that increases the risk of cancer, a move that would de ...

A total of twelve teenagers in different parts of Stockholm ended up in hospital over the weekend with poisoning after ...

Studies now show health risks rise sharply even at a few drinks a week. Cutting back, even a little, can make a measurable ...

Police investigating a mass methanol poisoning in Brazil have uncovered a clandestine alcohol factory whose products are believed to be linked to the deaths of two people. There has been a total of ...

Health officials urge people to avoid drinking alcohol amid an investigation of widespread methanol poisoning NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Three people are dead after drinking vodka tainted with ...

A third person has died after drinking poisoned alcohol as desperate authorities search for the source of the tainted drinks in Brazil. Bruna Araújo de Souza, 30, died after falling in having consumed ...

Three people have died and more than 200 others have fallen ill in a wave of methanol poisoning cases stemming from suspected tainted alcohol spreading through Brazil. Bruna Araújo de Souza, 30; ...

A new Barron’s report describes more than 100 cases of suspected methanol poisoning in and around São Paulo, including at least one confirmed death. From upscale bars to beachfront kiosks, Brazilians ...