The wants to create one so that bars and restaurants can identify it.
“It would be a simple and quick way to check the possible presence of methanol in counterfeit products, preventing them from being put on sale in bars and restaurants”, says the national Consumer Secretary, Paulo Henrique Pereira. “Something like a pharmacy pregnancy test”, he compared.
The measure would be adopted in the context of the methanol poisoning crisis, which has already left at least
How this testing would take place is still being debated.
There is more than one modality available. One of them is the use of a dye, which would be mixed with a small dose of the drink by the commercial establishment, to identify the possible presence of the poisonous product.
There is also a more sophisticated technology, based on a laser that detects the existence of the substance without needing to open the bottle.
The secretariat intends to meet with universities that developed these tests. Among them are the Federal University of Paraíba and Unesp in Franca (SP). One concern is whether it would be possible to produce these tests on a large scale and what the cost would be.
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