TY - JOUR AU - Zamani, Nasim AU - Rafizadeh, Ali AU - Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein AU - Akhavan-Tavakoli, Alireza AU - Ghorbani-Samin, Mahdi AU - Akhgari, Maryam AU - Shariati, Shahab PY - 2019 DA - 2019/12/16 TI - Evaluation of methanol content of illegal beverages using GC and an easier modified Chromotropic acid method; a cross sectional study JO - Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy SP - 56 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Methanol is highly toxic to human beings and naturally exists in some beverages. Having access to an easy and cheap method for its determination is of great importance to increase the safety of use of these beverages. Our main aim is to evaluate methanol concentration of some alcoholic beverages in Iran black market and compare it with the European and US standards. Also, we evaluated the efficacy of a newly designed and produced chemical kit in determining the risk of methanol toxicity by drinking of such samples compared to gas chromatography method. SN - 1747-597X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-019-0244-z DO - 10.1186/s13011-019-0244-z ID - Zamani2019 ER -