People should be very careful with the 3-litre bottles of the champagne brand Moët & Chandon Ice Impérial, warns the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA). Recently, two such bottles were found to be filled with the hard drug MDMA.
The NVWA considers touching and drinking bottles with that content life-threatening. In Germany someone died after drinking the MDMA and seven people became “very seriously ill”. In the Netherlands, four people have become ill.
It is not known how the drugs ended up in the champagne bottles. The bottles in question were purchased via a website that was unknown to the NVWA.
The food watchdog cannot rule out the possibility that other Moët & Chandon bottles also contain MDMA. The authority therefore calls on consumers to be alert. There is nothing abnormal on the outside of the bottles, but when pouring it, it is noticeable that “liquid MDMA does not fizz, has a red-brown color and a different anise smell”, the NVWA writes.
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