TIL that retaining the “fores and afters” of distillations has never been the cause of methanol poisonings. In fact, the prohibition era US government mandated that methanol must be blended into industrial alcohol stocks. Bootleggers then stole and sold these denatured, industrial-grade alcohols.

https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-prohibition-underworld/alco…
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