Overview

• National tally stands at 17 confirmed cases linked to alcoholic drinks and roughly 200 under investigation, with São Bernardo do Campo authorities confirming a third death after the latest federal count.
• São Paulo reports 15 confirmed cases and 164 under analysis, has arrested 20 suspects in a week, seized thousands of bottles and inputs, and will seek court approval to destroy seized packaging and labels.
• Investigators are examining diversion of used bottles from recycling into the parallel market and two main contamination hypotheses: bottle washing with methanol or the addition of ethanol that was unknowingly contaminated.
• States beyond São Paulo report activity: Goiás is probing four suspected cases, including one with a brain-death protocol; Alagoas logged its first suspected case; Ceará monitors two and discarded earlier reports; a suspected case in Minas Gerais was ruled out; Pernambuco police shuttered a clandestine plant.
• Clinical and lab response includes expanded CIATox capacity to about 190 tests per day, purchase of 4,300 ampoules of pharmaceutical ethanol, and plans to import 2,600 vials of fomepizole, with guidance for consumers to verify provenance and seek urgent care if symptomatic.