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Journal of Forensic Chemistry and Toxicology

Volume  6, Issue 2, July – December 2020, Pages 111-125
 

Original Article

Survey of Youth Awareness Regarding Toxic Alcohol (Methanol) and HOOCH Tragedies

Vivekanshu Verma

Associate Consultant, Emergency and Trauma Care, Medanta: The Medicity, Gurugram 122413, Haryana, India.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/jfct.2454.9363.6220.13

Abstract

The term Toxic alcohol include as a proper name Methanol, and is applied both to the absolute substance further specified by chemists as methyl alcohol, and to its mixtures with smaller proportions of water and slight proportions of other substances. In chemistry, the word alcohol is used as a common or generic name to designate several series of substances containing Ethanol in different percentages. Alcohol consumption has existed in India for many centuries. The quantity of toxicity problem has undergone substantial changes over the past twenty years. In India many deaths are related to intake of toxic alcohol. These are liquors made in India under government license and the maximum Ethanol content allowed is 42.8%. Besides licensed distilleries, a number of small production units operate clandestinely. The toxic alcohol is industrial methylated sprits which regularly cause mass toxicity to humans, who lose their lives or suffer irreversible eye damage and overdose of methanol is death results in this research survey showed that maximum youth are not aware about the toxic alcohols. There is an urgent need to make people aware about methanol toxicity.

 


Keywords : Toxic Alcohol; Toxicity; Methanol; HOOCH; Snowfield blindness; etc
Corresponding Author : Vivekanshu Verma