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ASBESTOS-laced beer from the 1970s is being blamed for a quadrupling of gullet cancer cases.
Scientists fear poisoned pints may be behind the rise in tumours over the last five decades – 90 per cent in men.
Deadly asbestos was widely used to filter out impurities from beer and other alcoholic drinks until the 1980s.
Some pubs used to add handfuls of the lethal substance to the “slops” that were left at the end of the night.
It cleaned the beer before it was served to unsuspecting customers the next day.
Experts at Cambridge and Liverpool universities suspect exposure to asbestos in pints is likely to have sparked the fourfold rise in cancer of the gullet, the tube carrying food from the throat to the stomach. bid
Liverpool researcher Dr Jonathan Rhodes said: “Asbestos from beer consumed before around 1980 seems a plausible factor.”
Gullet, also known as oesophageal cancer, now kills nearly 8,000 Brits a year.
Andy Tighe, of the British Beer and Pub Association, said asbestos was used in food manufacturing too, adding: “It’s difficult to associate health impacts from any one potential source".
Scientists fear poisoned pints may be behind the rise in tumours over the last five decades – 90 per cent in men.
Deadly asbestos was widely used to filter out impurities from beer and other alcoholic drinks until the 1980s.
Some pubs used to add handfuls of the lethal substance to the “slops” that were left at the end of the night.
It cleaned the beer before it was served to unsuspecting customers the next day.
Experts at Cambridge and Liverpool universities suspect exposure to asbestos in pints is likely to have sparked the fourfold rise in cancer of the gullet, the tube carrying food from the throat to the stomach. bid
Liverpool researcher Dr Jonathan Rhodes said: “Asbestos from beer consumed before around 1980 seems a plausible factor.”
Gullet, also known as oesophageal cancer, now kills nearly 8,000 Brits a year.
Andy Tighe, of the British Beer and Pub Association, said asbestos was used in food manufacturing too, adding: “It’s difficult to associate health impacts from any one potential source".
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I'll stick to the craft beer...made by a vastly unqualified former IT worker in his garage.
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Camden Hells Pale Ale made by by Jasper Cuppaidge ( not a former IT worker! )
It tasted so bad I decided not buy another pint! |
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Mesothelioma killed my Dad, that has to be the most evil disease of all time. All our hearts were totally broken to see him suffer like he did.
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used to work in a pub a few nights a week in the 70s ,they had stainless steel slop buckets in which all nearly all the leftovers went in guiness ,lager light ale bitter the lot dead flys included , for a laugh used to sell a pint of slops to one of my tight mates for 10p a pint hed have about 5 pints of the stuff over the course of the evening .
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