When in doubt, make a shitty connection

Oh no, a popular whiskey was recalled in 3 countries due to a toxic antifreeze ingredient!!
Good thing other countries still let people chug Fireball to their liver's content.

The issue at heart here is the attention grab of comparing the Fireball to antifreeze. Why? Because they have an ingredient in common. I suppose I'd better stop eating kale because it shares the ingredient "water" with extra-strength bleach ... and no one without a death wish would ever ever ever drink bleach!

As a smart reader, you already know this is all a logical fallacy. A and B contain X. Given that B is toxic, that does not mean X is the toxic component of B. Furthermore, even if X is toxic, we'd need to know a lot more: how much X does it take over what timeframe to harm a person? How much X is in A? How much A does a person ingest in a canonical and an extreme scenario?

The latter is a staple anti-vax argument about things like thimerosal and formaldehyde. Sure, both these ingredients are acutely harmful in large enough quantities. In both cases, there are key points not included in the argument: thimerosal is a much less absorbable mercury variant and poses far smaller hazards. Also, the amount per injection is well below the safe level limits. Same for formaldehyde. It's used in the production of vaccines (I believe to kill the infectious agents) and the removed. Trace amounts are left behind. So yes, vaccines contain formaldehyde. Turns out the body produces formaldehyde as a metabolic byproduct. And the natural concentration leads to something like 1 million times more formaldehyde quantity in you than what you'd get from a vaccine.

If something is dangerous, point to the exact reason why it's dangerous. I'm not arguing that Fireball should have propylene glycol in it, or that it couldn't maybe do with less or none, but if it's truly bad, let's talk about that. Not antifreeze.

Note: even some news outlets (Huffington Post, Gawker) who have mysteriously risen to non-trivial credibility are pointing out the antifreeze "link".