In total, 122 people have been affected by the poisoning, she said. A sticker on the bath lotion said that it contains about 93 percent of ethyl alcohol, hawthorn extract, lemon oil, diethyl phthalate and glycerol.
A chemical probe of the bath lotion has shown that in reality, Boyaryshnik (Hawthorn) contains methyl alcohol and antifreeze, Russia’s Investigative Committee said earlier.
Death toll from bath lotion poisoning in Siberia rises to 74 – officials
23 December 2016
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At least 74 people have died from poisoning after consuming a bath lotion containing alcohol in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Tatiana Shkurskaya, an official from the Russian Health Ministry, told Interfax, adding that 31 more are currently in the hospital.
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