Health crisis in Brazil due to methanol present in alcoholic beverages in Brazil. San Pablo concentrates most cases and seeks emergency prevention methods.
The Brazil authorities confirmed Two deaths And more than 200 poisoning cases by Adulterated alcoholic beverages with methanolmainly in Saint Paul. Caipirinha and other popular distillates are involved, which generated panic in the most populous country in South America. Those affected have serious symptoms such as blurred vision, vomiting and damage to vital organs.
The Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) activated international contacts to achieve fumepizol, an antidote that It is not found in the countryand distributes pharmaceutical ethanol manipulated as an alternative. The Minister of Health, Alexandre Padilhahe recommended Avoid distilled alcoholic beverageswhile hospitals and manipulation pharmacies coordinate emergency measures to treat intoxicates.
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Ongoing research and detainees
Police and consumer associations carry out mass inspections in bars, restaurants and shops to locate contaminated lots. They were detected clandestine factories that manipulated drinks with methanol and The first detention has already occurred. Until now they seized More than a thousand bottlesof which 250 were analyzed, and the operations continue in several states, including San Pablo, Minas Gerais and Santa Catarina.
Experts suspect that methanol comes from distributors linked to organized crime, such as First Capital Command (PCC). The clandestine production and the falsification of alcohol doubled between 2016 and 2022, generating millionaire losses for the legal sector and an illegal market that moves billions of reais per year.
Health alert in Brazil for adulterated alcohol: what is methanol
The origin of adulterated alcohol is unknown and the Federal Police said this week that he was investigating a possible link with organized crime.
The Minister of Health, Alexandre Padilha, to the citizens who do not consume white drinks. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government created a “situation room” to face the crisis and seeks to stock up an antidote, pharmaceutical ethanol.
The authorities also look for international fomepizol donors and suppliers, another antidote that is not achieved in Brazil. Methanol is a highly toxic industrial chemist for humans, whose intake damages the liver and nerves.
Source: Ambito
