Overview

• The Health Ministry reports 29 confirmed poisonings nationwide, including 25 in São Paulo, with 217 notifications under investigation and five deaths confirmed in the state.
• Civil police shut down a clandestine site in São Bernardo do Campo and detained the proprietor after tracing two fatal cases to a Mooca bar where eight of nine seized bottles tested positive for methanol at roughly 14.6% to 45.1%.
• Forensic teams say some containers held only methanol and about half of 300 bottles tested carried 10% to 45% methanol, as São Paulo’s crime lab rolled out a faster screening protocol and inspectors interdicted large volumes for analysis.
• Authorities are deploying clinical countermeasures, distributing pharmaceutical ethanol and beginning delivery of roughly 2,600 units of the antidote fomepizol to states treating suspected exposures.
• Enforcement actions expanded with interdictions of bars, distributors and warehouses, seizures of tens of thousands of suspect bottles and packaging, and dozens of arrests, while probes into fuel‑station supply links and broader networks continue.