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Video feature: Fake vodka health fears
Sarah Sturdey goes on the trail of the people producing illegal alcohol and finds out the sometimes dire consequences for those who drink it.
BBC News: Fake vodka 'almost blinded' Derbyshire teenager
In 2011 Derbyshire teenager Lauren Platts, who is studying at Sheffield University, bought a cheap bottle of what she thought was vodka.
After drinking about a third of a bottle mixed with lemonade she spent the next two days unable to get out of bed.
She tells BBC Inside Out how her eyesight was badly damaged by drinking the fake vodka which she bought from an off-licence.
A consultant at Lincoln County Hospital, Vikas Sodiwala, said that other patients have been turning up at casualty departments showing similar symptoms to Miss Platts'.
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'Fake vodka could have blinded me'
In November, Sheffield University student Lauren Platts bought a cheap bottle of what she thought was vodka, for £5.99.
BBC News: 'Fake vodka could have blinded me'
She says the man in the off-licence jokingly said 'It will blind you'. Miss Platts said she laughed at the time but now she thinks he was not far wrong.
After drinking about a third of a bottle mixed with lemonade she spent the next two days unable to get out of bed.
After speaking to Trading Standards officers, she now knows it was not vodka at all.
Read the full feature on the BBC News website below.
Credits
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- Tony Roe
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- Marie Ashby
