Serious paracetamol overdoses occur twice as often in Britain than the rest of Europe, said the British Liver Trust.
The site continued: “Paracetamol-linked liver failures, so severe that the patient needs a transplant, happen in the UK eight times more than in Holland, twice as often than in France, and 66 times more than in Italy.
“Last year a study of seven countries commissioned by the European Medicines Agency found only Ireland came out worse than Britain.
“Paracetamol overdoses represent 20 percent of liver transplants across Europe but rise to 52 percent in Ireland and 28 percent in the UK, dropping to 1 percent in Italy.”