If you’ve ever had just a few drinks and felt way more drunk than you should… maybe it’s because you were drinking Bombay Sapphire gin.
According to CBC News, bottles of the Bacardi-owned gin are being recalled across Canada after the revelation that it had nearly twice as much alcohol in it as was listed on the bottle.
The Liquor Control Board Of Ontario was the first to issue a recall after its internal quality assurance team discovered that some bottles of Bombay Sapphire London Dry Gin had not been properly diluted, resulting in an alcohol content of 77 per cent, not 40 per cent as listed on the bottle.
Here’s how Bacardi explained the error:
“The over proof product inadvertently entered the bottling line during a short period of time — [up to] 45 minutes — when [workers] were switching from one bottling tank to another bottling tank,” the firm said.
Bacardi said the recall was launched after “an isolated consumer complaint and subsequent quality assurance checks.”
Per CNN, up to 6,000 1.1-liter bottles of Bombay Sapphire may be affected. There have yet to be reports of people being harmed by drinking over-alcoholic Bombay Sapphire, but if anyone does wind up in the hospital from this, Bacardi could face one hell of a lawsuit.
The size bottle that is being recalled is reportedly sold only in Canada, so all you American readers are safe. But this situation has to make you wonder about accurate labeling is and how often what we’re consuming isn’t exactly what we think we’re consuming.
