If diethylene glycol (DEG) can sneak into countries in toothpaste and cough syrup, it might as well sneak around in plain sight on T-shirts.

Buy this shirt at CafePress.com.

The Chinese characters er gan chun literally mean "two sweet alcohol." It's chemistry jargon in Chinese, so many Chinese-speakers won't know what the T-shirt says and may think it's nonsense.

(Check out this blog about the misuse of Chinese characters in the West.)

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T-shirt that says diethylene glycol in Chinese