Overview

• State health officials report 11 confirmed intoxications and 41 cases under investigation, with one death confirmed and six fatalities under review.
• Seven establishments have been interdicted and 1,002 bottles seized this week, while 128,000 sealed bottles in Barueri remain blocked pending documentation.
• Federal police and the Agriculture Ministry inspected a suspected distribution depot in Embu das Artes and a clandestine factory fronted as a charcoal business in Pilar do Sul, with multiple inquiries underway.
• Civil Police arrested two women transporting 162 counterfeit whisky bottles in Dobrada and collected large quantities of seals and labels in related probes, as new suspected cases are examined in Santos, São Vicente and Ribeirão Preto.
• A state crisis cabinet is coordinating health, security, finance and justice actions, laboratories are delivering rapid tests, ethanol antidote stocks are being expanded, and Rio de Janeiro issued a decree tightening municipal oversight of beverage producers.