{"id":58841,"date":"2020-01-17T15:35:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T07:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58841"},"modified":"2020-01-17T15:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T07:35:31","slug":"brazil-reports-third-death-from-suspected-poison-craft-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58841","title":{"rendered":"Brazil reports third death from suspected poison craft beer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/sites\/acquia.prod\/files\/styles\/720x400\/public\/2020-01-15T202840Z_1377775415_RC2KGE9GVNMT_RTRMADP_2_BRAZIL-BEER-CASUALTIES.JPG?itok=sVa_aajj\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SAO PAULO, Jan 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A third person has died in Brazil of suspected poisoning from a batch of craft beer contaminated with a toxic chemical used in antifreeze and other products, police in the state of Minas Gerais said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, police said the man died on Thursday morning of suspected poisoning by diethylene glycol (DEG).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traces of the sweet-tasting solvent were found in the water tank used by the Backer brewery, whose craft beers have won international prizes and are widely available in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture said that it had found DEG present in eight different beers sold by Backer. Originally it had been thought only their Belorizontina lager was contaminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brewery has been shut and its products recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Backer said it is cooperating with the investigation. It said it does not use diethylene glycol in its production process, but does use a less toxic related chemical &#8211; monoethylene glycol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said on Thursday it had carried out search warrants at the company that supplies monoethylene glycol to the brewery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEG poisoning can cause neurological complications including paralysis, coma and death. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAO PAULO, Jan 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A third person has died in Brazil of suspected poisoning from a batch of craft beer contaminated with a toxic chemical used in antifreeze and other products, police in the state of Minas Gerais said. In a statement, police said the man died on Thursday morning of suspected poisoning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}