Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that alcohol poisoning has killed three and left more than 40 people hospitalized in southern Iran.
What is a unit?
An alcohol unit is defined as 10ml or 8g of pure alcohol. As alcoholic drinks come in various strengths and sizes, units are the only accurate way to measure how relatively strong a drink is and how it affects buyers.
According to the Drinkaware website, "it takes an average adult around an hour to process one unit of alcohol so that there's none left in their bloodstream, although it varies from person to person."
Foreign beer and wine consumption is increasing significantly in China. In 2016, Chinese consumed 567.5 million liters of imported wine, with bottled wine leading the total imports, followed by bulk wines and sparkling wines, according to statistics from the China Association for Imports and Exports of Wine and Spirits. During the same period, beer imports grew by 18.7 percent in volume to 598.5 million liters.
The Alcohol Health Alliance who carried out the research found that products across the market are falling well below the 50p per unit mark recommended by health and alcohol bodies.
With more than half a million people living within a five-mile radius, the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) store in Alexandria Commons Shopping Center has seen quite a bit of traffic since it opened in 2001. It's time for a few improvements.
MOSCOW, July 20. /TASS/. Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related deaths in Russia continue to demonstrate downwards tendencies, the press service of the Russian ministry of health told TASS on Thursday.
SoDo pot shops have already begun changing out signs and billboards — bracing for the impacts of a new law that goes in effect on Sunday.
Plans by a U.S. company to construct a state-of-the-art brewery in the Baja California capital of Mexicali are moving forward — despite opposition of a group of local farmers and the cancellation of a state aqueduct project to supply water to the future facility.
New North Carolina distillery plans to be largest craft vodka distiller in NC by year's end.
UK Armed Forces personnel moving back into civilian life and having difficulties with alcohol could be helped by the use of online tools, a new study has revealed.