Overview

• Nearly 96 deaths have been linked to late-2024 fentanyl batches from HLB Pharma/Ramallo contaminated with Klebsiella pneumoniae and Ralstonia pickettii
• The Cuerpo Médico de la Corte Suprema started detailed pericias on 20 decedent files today to determine if infections directly caused the fatalities
• Instituto ANLIS-Malbrán’s final report on bacterial strains in seized vials is pending and will guide potential formal imputations
• Investigators recovered 200 ampoules in Córdoba and 189 in Chubut, exposing traceability gaps and prompting ANMAT to require all jurisdictions to declare remaining stock
• Owner Ariel García Furfaro says he expects imminent arrest under existing asset freezes and travel bans, and INAME has opened an internal probe into alleged record falsification