Cases are concentrated in the States of Saint Paul and Pernambuco; The surveillance bodies of the Federal Police and the State investigate the occurrences
The Ministry of Health, through the National Center for Strategic Information in Health Surveillance (CIVS), recorded until the night of Wednesday 1, 43 Suspected cases poisoning from methanol Throughout Brazil. Of this total, there are 39 in the state of San Paolo (10 confirmed) and four others in Pernambucowhich are still in the counting phase.
A death was confirmed in San Paolo, while seven others are still under investigation (five in SP and two in PE). According to the folder, four occurrences were discarded.
The quantity of possible contaminated methanol is a number “outside the curve” within the Ministry of Health. “Until then, Brazil has represented about 20 cases of methanol poisoning during a year, which makes the current atypical scenario,” said the folder.
The main suspicion is that people have been intoxicated through the consumption of adulterated alcohol. In Sao Paulo, the patients were admitted to hospitals and some people died after attending the bars and ingested distilled in Get -Gogether with friends.
The Government of San Paolo reported on Wednesday that six plants were prohibited after inspection by the secretariats of health, public security, finance and justice.
The places are bars, distributors and cellars located in the capital and cities of Mogi Das Cruzes and São Bernardo do Campo, in the metropolitan region.
In Barueri, a lot of 128,000 bottles of Vodka has been sealed by surveillance and will be released only at the time of the presentation of the documentation. In American, inside the State, a police operation arrested two people and seized about 17,700 drinks in a clandestine laboratory suspected of chopped the products.
The police are investigating that these places, approaches objectives, are involved in methanol contamination.
The federal government, through the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, believes that organized crime can be behind tampering and putting the federal police to investigate the case. In August, a police operation dismantled a first capital command scheme (CCP) which used methanol for the production and sale of adulterated fuel.
“We are facing an abnormal situation and, unlike anything in our historical series as regards methanol poisoning in the country. The entry of the federal police in the plan is due to the suspected involvement of a criminal organization related to the adulteration of drinks,” said the Minister of Health of Alexandre Padilha.
The Ministry of Health recommends that bars, companies and other factories double attention to the origin of the products marketed and guide consumers to avoid the consumption and purchase of drinks without label, safety seal or tax seal.
Source: Terra
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