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ELI5: liquor store caught fire, why is everything thrown out?

I realise that groceries and that sorta thing gets contaminated, but why is alcoholic beverages and Liquor is thrown out aswell, even though some of it wasnt close to the fire?
gpt
Its an insurance thing. If a store has fire or water damage, even the sealed / untouched containers need to be thrown out. Yes, there's probably nothing wrong with it. Yes, you could probably do well having a "Shit that got damaged in the fire FIRE SALE" sale.  But there's no guarantee that the product isn't tainted. Its tricky. As a consumer you demand that that bottle of whiskey or that can of beans is pristine, as packaged from the factory and untouched save the 17 yr old stockboy. But after a disaster you can't. Maybe in the flood, the toilets overflowed covering all the cans of beans with fecal matter. Maybe in fighting the fire, the asbestos in the ceiling pipe cladding got knocked down on the merchandise. And then someone licked their fire sale bottle and came down with asbestos poisoning. There's no way to know, and selling the potentially tainted merch opens you up to liability. Hence, the insurance company says just to get rid of it all. 

Its a huge waste sure. But due to the overly-litigious nature of our modern life, its an unfortunate necessity.