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"However - French bottlers of wine are notorious for "doctoring" their wine with ethylene glycol (anti-freeze) on several occasions in past years..
Should you have any more faith in the water bottlers?

Is that right? wow...I'd seen something about that in some satirical spoof about French wine, but I didn't know it was factual...are you sure it's ethylene glycol?

"..................remarks about French horror over her use of propylene glycol."

"This is the result of a guilty national conscience. Some years ago,
some French wine producers adulterated their product with *eth*ylene
glycol, which has a sweet taste. (Since it is not detected as added
sugar, it evaded the checks that the industry imposed in order to make
sure their wine is pure.)"

"Unfortunately, ethylene glycol, which is also used in antifreeze, is a poison: the kidneys convert it to oxalic
acid, which destroys the kidneys. Leaking sweet antifreeze regularly kills many cats and dogs each year."

"It was a great scandal and embarrassment to the French."

I couldn't find the original news report of the scandal...only this reference to the scandal...

My google search string just wasn't good enough I guess..

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