Jiu Gou Liquor, which has always boasted of brewing a thousand years of culture in western Hunan and inheriting an ancient secret recipe from the west of the country, claims that its supreme and marvelous product has already ranked among the high-end liquor. However, on November 19, 2012, Jugui liquor was detected 2.6 times over the plasticizer standard.

21stCentury.com purchased a 438 yuan/bottle bottle of Jugui liquor from Beijing Zhongsugar Liquor Co., a subsidiary of Zhongsugar Group, the de facto controller of Jugui liquor, and sent it to Shanghai Tianxiang Quality Technical Service Co. for testing. The test report showed that three plasticizer ingredients, namely di(2-ethyl)hexyl phthalate (DEHP), diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP) and dibutyl phthalate (DBP), were ***detected in Ghost Liquor, of which the content of dibutyl phthalate (DBP) in Ghost Liquor was 1.08 mg/kg, which was more than the stipulated maximum residual amount.