Partygoers and businesses are being warned to stay away from dangerous counterfeit vodka circulating in Sussex.

West Sussex Trading Standards and the Food Standards Agency issued the warning adding industrial solvent was being added to some illegal spirits.

It added labels to be on the look out for include Drop Vodka, Red Admiral, Arctic Ice and Spar Imperial.

The most recent case involving Drop Vodka – a product allegedly bottled in France or Italy – contains the industrial solvent Propan-2-ol.

Smirnoff and Glen's vodka have also been copied so bottles contained 52.5% strength alcohol despite labels claiming 37.5%.

These copies were later found to have a range of chemicals often used in cleaning fluids, which experts warned could lead to blindness and in some cases death.

Traders are asked to be wary of bottles offered to them outside their normal supply chain while suspicions should be raised by poorly printed labels, invalid bar codes and lack of manufacturers’ addresses.

Last month The Argus reported that the Lower Bevendean Post Office in Leybourne Parade, Brighton, had its alcohol licence suspended for three months for selling fake Smirnoff and Glen’s Vodka.

Licence holder Tescho Limited did not have its licence revoked completely because Brighton and Hove City Council’s panel decided it may not have been aware the vodka it was selling was counterfeit.

At the time, cabinet member for public protection, Ben Duncan, said there was “clearly a health risk” in buying fake booze.