Overview

• São Paulo reports 15 laboratory‑confirmed intoxications linked to adulterated spirits, with 179 notifications under follow‑up, two deaths confirmed and six additional deaths under investigation.
• The federal monitoring room counts 217 notifications nationwide, including 17 confirmed cases, as coordination across agencies intensifies.
• Police forensic testing in São Paulo detected methanol in beverages from two distributors, and investigators are examining whether those products reached victims.
• The Health Ministry is increasing purchases of antidotes used in methanol poisoning and is considering expanded testing to improve case detection.
• Ceará has registered five suspected cases since Saturday with no confirmations to date, formed an interagency surveillance group, and routes blood methanol analyses through Pefoce with results typically in about 24 hours.