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6 detained by police over toxic fake beer
By Hu Min | 2012-7-11
SIX people who made fake beer using cancer-causing industrial chemicals and sold it in north China, gaining 13 million yuan (US$2.05 million) in the process, have been detained by police.
They added toxic chemicals - hydrochloric acid and formaldehyde - to 13 counterfeit brands of beer, including Tsingtao, and sold it in Jilin Province and its neighboring Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia..