Overview

• The Justice Ministry, via the PNIDD program, is opening Polícia Federal infrastructure to state forensic police, with the National Institute of Criminalistics conducting advanced stable‑isotope testing.
• The Polícia Federal will transport suspect beverage samples to reference labs and make 49 criminalistics units available as national collection and intake points.
• States will receive analytical methanol standards, training for local experts in chemical alcoholemia, and support to detect and quantify methanol and its metabolites in biological samples.
• Authorities are expanding a national cooperation network that shares pericial intelligence, applies forensic epidemiology, and guides checks of packaging, labels, and seals to map contamination patterns.
• The Health Ministry says 59 suspected methanol intoxications are under investigation nationwide, with eight deaths also being probed as possible cases.