They put bitters I believe in antifreeze, to stop people drinking it?
That would be Bitrex. Quite safe but the most foul tasting thing ever
Reading the link in Parm. s post it is the REACH regulations. Again.
Designed to give maximum inconvenience to maximum number of people so we can help prevent (noted the phrase help prevent, no guarantees) total morons from killing themselves. Or make decisions for us as we clearly cannot be trusted with a sharpened pencil*
*Does not apply and can be totally disregarded it you are a scally, crook or moron.
Reading the link in Parm. s post it is the REACH regulations. Again.
Designed to give maximum inconvenience to maximum number of people so we can help prevent (noted the phrase help prevent, no guarantees) total morons from killing themselves. Or make decisions for us as we clearly cannot be trusted with a sharpened pencil*
*Does not apply and can be totally disregarded it you are a scally, crook or moron.
Don’t be getting any ideasBitrex - never heard of that - interesting...
In my opinion REACH Regs are the most utterly useless complete total waste of time regs
They are so far and wide ranging that no one knows how to comply.
One bit of them requires something (won’t bore you with the details) that no one has the technology or software to make happen.
However, some folk have made lots of money out of it all
Ethylene Glycol Antifreeze BAD....
Ethylene Glycol is a poison, 30ml can be fatal for an adult, 4-5ml can kill a dog and 1-2ml can kill a cat. It is sweet tasting, an Asian woman in the UK, has been procectuted for killing her husband by adding it to his curry!
The cure!
The effects of poisoning Ethylene Glycol take 12-36 hours. Symptoms of Ethylene Glycol poisoning are in this order, central nervous system failure, changes in metabolic processes and kidney failure. The central nervous system is affected early in the course of poisoning and the affected indervidual may look drunk & intoxicated. One antidote for Ethylene Glycol poisoning is Ethanol (Ethyl Alcohol). Ethanol is a competitive inhibitor of ADH. Ethanol acts by competing with Ethylene Glycol for alcohol dehydrogenase. Doctors normally precribe pharmaceutical grade Ethanol by injection as a 5-10% solution with 5% dextrose in water, but it can be given orally in the form of a strong spirit such as whisky, vodka or gin. Alcohol dehydrogenase has about a 100 times greater affinity for Ethanol than for Ethylene Glycol; Ethanol therapy saturates the enzyme, inhibiting further ethylene glycol metabolism thus limiting the formation of toxic metabolites. The other method of treatment is Haemodialysis but you are going to need a specialist hospital for this.
So if you have ingested antifreeze - and not near a hospital - reach for a bottle of 40% spirits and go for it - it may save your life... Another plus is - if you drink enough high strength spirits quick enough you will vomit - this will be a good thing as you will be bringing up the antifreeze - but you are gonna have to persevere with the half empty bottle after you have thrown up to get some into your blood stream.
denatonium benzoate is non-toxic. ...Denatonium is the most bitter chemical compound known to humanity. It is widely used as an aversive agent, an additive that discourages ingestion by making a substance taste so bad that you'll immediately want to spit it out.
Never heard of it before - its in loads of things to stop kids poisoning themselves.
Oh don't bother it's all too hard, t
So it's down to some folk having a drink problem? If it were in say a tub of grease, how they going to drink that I'm wondering.