Media reported about the fatal poisoning of unknown poison in Irkutsk – RBC

a Bottle of concentrate for bathing “Hawthorn”

Photo: Vladimir Smirnov/RIA Novosti

In 37 deaths recorded by doctors in the Irkutsk region, the people were not poisoned by methanol contained in the bath concentrate “Hawthorn” and other unknown poison, reports TASS with reference to sources

37 people who died from poisoning with alcohol-containing liquids in the Irkutsk region, was not poisoned by methanol and other unknown poison. It is reported TASS with reference to sources in the medical community. Earlier it was reported that in the composition means for baths “Hawthorn”, which took poisoned inside, contained methyl alcohol.

Doctors have recorded the first in recent days the case of a poisoning with counterfeit vodka. About this informed the head of the Department of health and social protection of Irkutsk Natalia Taraban, reports TASS.

“One of the victims of mass poisoning, the inhabitant of Leninsky district, died at home. Her relatives informed the doctors that she had consumed vodka “White birch”, she said. Authorities do not have information about the composition of this product.

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According to the latest data of the regional Ministry of health, the number of deaths from poisoning in Irkutsk rose to 71. “The total number of victims — 117. During the night came another man. Treatment at the hospital are 36″, — said the representative of the Department Tatiana Skurskaya (quoted by “RIA Novosti”).

Authorities imposed in Irkutsk in connection with the mass poisoning of a state of emergency and banned the sale of non-food alcohol-containing products. In the case of the mass poisoning of “Hawthorn” arrested 11 people. They are charged under article 238 of the criminal code (production, storage, sale of produce not satisfying the requirements of safety, entailed on imprudence death of two and more persons).

the day Before, on December 21, President Vladimir Putin instructed to tighten the rules of circulation of alcohol products. In his behalf it was about perfume and cosmetics, household chemicals and personal care products in which the proportion of ethyl alcohol exceeds 25%. Putin also instructed to tighten rules governing retail trade in ethyl alcohol containing medicines and to change excise rates on such products. According to the President, the concessions in this area lead to the fact that “people are dying like flies.” “Alcohol bottles should not be sold at “a penny”, let this expensive perfume, but human lives are more important,” — said the President.