Overview

• Investigators now attribute 96 deaths to contaminated injectable fentanyl tied to HLB Pharma and Laboratorios Ramallo.
• Court evidence cites WhatsApp messages about advance warnings of inspections, the note that “el fentanilo dio mal,” use of expired reagents, and retroactive batch records.
• Judge Ernesto Kreplak has detained owner Ariel García Furfaro and multiple executives as the federal case against the companies’ leadership expands.
• The Chamber of Deputies is pressing for a bicameral commission, and Chief of Cabinet Guillermo Francos is scheduled to answer questions on Wednesday.
• Authorities report more than 300,000 ampoules were distributed with roughly 45,000 administered, complicating recovery efforts despite ANMAT’s May ban and plant suspensions.