Overview

• The Health Ministry’s latest bulletin lists 259 notifications nationwide, with 24 confirmed cases in São Paulo (20), Paraná (3) and Rio Grande do Sul (1), and five deaths confirmed in São Paulo.
• The consumer authority Senacon directed major e‑commerce platforms to halt listings of distilled spirits and remove ads for caps, seals and bottles used in falsification, demanding a response within 24 hours.
• São Paulo’s forensic police detected methanol in seized beverages at concentrations inconsistent with natural distillation, as authorities seized thousands of bottles, hundreds of thousands of labels and shut clandestine facilities.
• Police inquiries weigh deliberate adulteration and other contamination scenarios, while the Federal Police investigates a possible diversion of industrial methanol tied to criminal fuel schemes.
• The federal health response has shipped pharmaceutical ethanol to states and secured international purchases of fomepizole, alongside court‑authorized destruction of 100,000 seized containers in São Paulo.