[Yo-Yo]

The Chinese manufacturer exported the diethylene glycol under the name TD glycerine, but the Spanish middleman Aduanas Javier de Gracia changed the name to glycerine when he filled the customs declaration in Panama, where hundreds of people died from drinking anti-freeze

This is misleading. It makes it sound like the importer was responsible for the error because of his customs declaration form.

The product wasn't labeled and sold as glycerine simply because of a form on a customs declaration.

the importer must have thought that they ordered glycerine, but the Chinese manufacturer shipped the wrong item.

[Calvin Locke]

I believe I read diethylene glycol in the ingredient list on a can of Diet Dr. Pepper some thirty years ago.

I figured it was like methyl v. ethyl alcohol.