This Friday a new complaint about the purchase of adulterated alcohol gel, this time, by the Seremi de Salud of the Metropolitan Region. The product that should disinfect and protect from the new coronavirus, officials report, it was not certified by the Institute of Public Health (ISP).
Marcia Lara, president of the National Association of Officials of the Seremi de Salud (Afeseremi), maintained that the product, which was in dispensers on the premises, “it is not certified, because the company does not have a resolution for the elaboration of alcohol gel. We demand the technical specifications of the product and it never came ”.
In April of this year, the Seremi de Salud bought 348 5-liter jerry cans of alcohol gel valued at more than $ 12 million. The purchase was made at Distribuidora de Papeles Industriales SA (Dipisa).
However, Dipisa was only an intermediary, since the manufacturer of the product is the company Química Zero Ltda., Located in the commune of Quilicura.
About, Héctor Fuenzalida, secretary of Afuseremi, pointed out that “it represents more than 1,500 liters of gel alcohol, which, when reviewed in the ISP health registry for these products, it is not registered and we are not sure that they comply with the minimum alcohol concentration to produce disinfection of the hands“.
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The more than a thousand liters of alcohol gel were distributed in the 17 dependencies of the Seremi de Salud de la RM for both officials and visitors.
“The only response we have from the authorities is that this is from the previous administration.Fuenzalida explained.
The alcohol gel that they were using, and that was purchased from the stationery company, not only did not have the certification of the Institute of Public Health, it also did not have the description of its ingredients and brought a problem in its labeling: the manufacturing date is October 7, 2020 and the expiration date said October 1, 2020. “That is the seriousness of the company,” claims Lara.
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In a statement, the company Distribuidora de Papeles Industriales He assured that he had delivered all the documentation requested by the Seremi de Salud.
Meanwhile, from the company Chemical Zero although they did not want to speak officially, they assured that the product is no longer marketedIt was a specific request and that an external laboratory certified the content. On their website either It is available.
The Seremi de Salud had been using the alcohol gel since March and only this week was it removed from the dispensers. In addition, they point out that an administrative investigation was initiated. Nicolas Camus, chief attorney (s) of the legal department of the Seremi RM, maintained that “we will determine whether or not there is a responsibility and who is responsible for this“.
“The product was sent to the ISP for analysis and to see the components that were in the product and see if it met the characteristics for which it was purchased.Added the same lawyer.
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