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Viagra Alcohol China   by Jack Linshi Sunday August 2 nd , 2015  at  7:47 PM World News Review 1 Share Two distillers are under investigation in China for allegedly spiking their alcohol with the anti-impotence drug Viagra, officials said on Saturday. Chinese investigators discovered over 5,300 bottles suspected of being tainted with sildenafil, the chemical name for Viagra, during a routine inspection of the two distilleries in the southern city of Liuzhou,  BBC  reports. According to  the city’s food and drug administration , the powdery white drug was added into three different types of “health-preserving”  baijiu ,  a popular spirit analogous to vodka. Some bottles also contained naproxen and indomethacin, which are anti-inflammatory drugs, and tadafil, which is a different erectile dysfunction drug sold as Cialis or Adcirca. Food safety  remains a top public health concern in China, with a scandal involving 100,000 tons of rotting meat  m