An overdose of chloroform water can damage the kidneys and lungs.
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The Department of Health said concentrated chloroform water instead of diluted chloroform water had been put into the cough mixture.
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The Department of Health said concentrated chloroform water instead of diluted chloroform water had been put into the cough mixture.
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Four times the normal amount of a liquid called chloroform water _ a preservative and flavouring solution _ had been added to the cough syrup by staff at the clinic.
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Among them was a 77-year-old man who said he really was not worried if the bottle of cough syrup he was turning in had too much chloroform water in it.
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Excessive amounts of a liquid called chloroform water _ a preservative and flavouring solution _ had been added to the cough medicine and first dispensed to patients suffering from chronic bronchitis around three weeks ago.
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Dr Chan Wai-man, Assistant Director of Health, admitted they were not aware there had been a mix-up at the Central Kowloon General Out-Patient Clinic until a dispenser saw large amounts of the chloroform water solution in three bottles of cough syrup on Monday.
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