^ As the poster says above - all rice wine is not poisonous, but there is very little surveillance on the local rice wine makers in the villages.

Three sent to court as deaths from alcohol poisoning hit 15
Mom Kunthear | Publication date 04 December 2020 | 08:29 ICT

The Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court have charged three people in relation to alcohol poisoning that left dozens of people sick and dead in Teuk Phos district’s Chieb commune.

Provincial court deputy prosecutor Long Sina told The Post on December 3 that the three were charged with “unintentional homicide” under Article 207 of the Criminal Code. If convicted, the trio face up to three years in prison and a fine of up to six million riel ($1,500).

Provincial deputy police chief Ea Bunthoeun told The Post on December 3 that from November 28 to December 2, authorities had either suspended or closed locations that produced and sold rice wine and had also seized many raw materials across the province.

Bunthoeun said locations that produced rice wine numbered 346 and places that sold and distributed rice wine and herbal wine numbered 543. The authorities had seized 1,090 litres of rice wine (blended), 418 jerrycans of rice wine and 80 plastic gallons of herbal wine.

“Some people produced it in accordance with technical standards, but some others produced it with high levels [of methanol] that lead to illness and death."
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... ing-hit-15

Destruction Ceremony of Fraudulent White Liquor in Kampong Chhnang Province
AKP Kampong Chhnang, December 18, 2020—

Kampong Chhnang provincial relevant authorities led by Provincial Governor H.E. Chhour Chandoeun presided over the destruction ceremony of nearly 20,000 litres of fraudulent white liquor (rice wine) in Rolear Pa-ir district, Kampong Chhnang province on Dec. 17, 2020.


Photos: Bay Sithon
AKP

Did they test the stuff? Or just round up everything they could lay there hands on and destroy it. If the last that’s awfully unfair to some already hard hit farmers.

I wonder how you test for the presence of methanol? Have to google it.