Amid a spate of rice wine deaths in July, winemakers share some of the production shortcuts that can make the tradition profitable — but hold higher risk of yielding a poisonous batch.
Eleven people have died from apparent methanol poisoning after consuming wine produced by a Kandal province factory now shuttered by authorities.
Kampong Chhnang provincial authorities have arrested six rice-wine makers for allegedly lacing their products with a lethal amount of methanol, and closed 346 production sites in the province as more than 12 people have died in the past two weeks.
The producer of a wine drink that authorities have linked to seven deaths and more than 30 other people falling ill remains at large, while one man who consumed the methanol-laced beverage remains in hospital, officials said on Friday.
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