Overview

• The Cuerpo Médico de la Corte Suprema began forensic examinations of 20 deceased patient records on August 18 to evaluate connections to the contaminated fentanyl ampoules.
• ANLIS-Malbrán is performing genetic and laboratory tests to match Klebsiella pneumoniae and Ralstonia pickettii strains from patients with those found in seized vials.
• Federal prosecutors have targeted over twenty individuals—including owner Ariel García Furfaro and laboratory staff—with asset freezes and travel bans.
• A Córdoba federal court registered four additional deaths this week, with victims’ relatives joining the La Plata inquiry as querellantes.
• ANMAT upheld its May recall of hundreds of thousands of fentanyl ampoules after earlier inspections revealed critical quality-control failures and removed its post-market surveillance director.