We must warn travellers about the risk of methanol poisoning | Alcohol

With 14,600 deaths caused by suspected methanol poisoning worldwide since 2015, there is still much to be done to prevent tragedies like the death of Simone White in Laos last year (Brain damage, blindness and death: The global trail of trauma left by alcohol containing methanol, November 29).

Following a campaign by bereaved families and supportive MPs, the UK government included education on the dangers of methanol in the national curriculum and strengthened the Foreign Office’s travel advice, extending the warning to more countries. We now need a wider national campaign involving travel companies, with a message that in countries like Indonesia, which has the highest number of suspected methanol poisoning incidents in the world over the past 10 years, spirits should be avoided altogether.
Jim Dickson, MP
Work, Dartford