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WORKS IN MARACANÃ MAY CAUSE PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS IN RIO DE JANEIRO
It's in the air today, one more time our theme has to do with the context of that area of Maracanã,
the context of the Maracanã stadium,
where constructions are taking place due to 2014 World Cup.
We've already done a program talking about Arthur Friedenreich school,
we've also done some programs talking about Maracanã native's Village,
because Maracanã Village is what most comes to the fore in this discussion,
and most suffer immediate threats.
And now we are going to deal with the National Network of Analytical Laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture,
called LANAGRO, which is also located in that region,
and the lab gives us new information,
I would say that inserts a complicating factor,
because it is an official laboratory, a laboratory that has a very important and specific job.
President, MPs, MEPs, a major concern for the state of Rio de Janeiro,
a warning to the population,
a claim also to the government of the State of Rio de Janeiro
and to the Ministry of Agriculture,
is about to close a major complex, which is composed of several laboratories
located on Mata Machado street, number 127.
Analysis of many foods, both animal and vegetal are made there,
this set of labs exists since 1938
and just to get an idea, in 2012 were conducted over 4000 tests.
All foods that are consumed in the state and several other states go through this lab.
And now the Public Works Company of Rio de Janeiro's state,
seeks the eviction of that space
without any indication of another point of operation.
The State of Rio de Janeiro cannot have that loss, Brazil cannot have this loss
and the Southeast cannot have that loss.
This is the truck that will take to a deposit, the lab material
of the Ministery of Agriculture,
responsible for the oversight of food commercialized in the State of Rio de Janeiro.
And these are the employees of thePublic Works Company of Rio de Janeiro's state, responsible for this transport and the works in Maracana.
Wanna give a testimony?
Hey, do you wanna give a testimony? - I don't have anything to say.
Jesus Gomes (responsible technician of beverage's analysis laboratory) Every laboratory unit
that is designed to specifically supervise, as regards the public health,
which is the feed part,
in our case here, food and beverages in general,
these laboratories are extremely important,
fundamental role in maintaining public health of a population.
We gathered ample documentation of the Ministry of Agriculture
which testified that in case of interruption of laboratory activities,
public health would collapse,
André da Silva Odacgy (Union Public Defender)
the state of Rio de Janeiro, the State of Espírito Santo
and part of the State of Minas Gerais.
And the spread of diseases could happen,
exotic, endemic,
epidemic, even death risk
and this is in the document.
Nevertheless, the judge held that first should be the principle of an adversarial process and ordered to claim to the defendant .
We filed the Bill of Review appeal and the judge also decided to wait
for the defendant's response.
Then our hands are tied regarding to the ministry of agriculture.
Is one more risk.
Even if you pass this kind of analysis that we do for other network laboratories,
these laboratories are at least 500 km or more away,
500 km or more away,
therefore there is a delay,
a difficulty to get that comp, see the result,
take an action.
And often they put companies in a special regime,
they seize a commodity,
then have to wait for the result of that analysis to see if the goods
will continue being sold or not
I mean, a little damage to the industry as well
... I guess nobody wins.
Everyone loses...
there must be a good sense because nobody wins in this story.
I think the damage is social,
economic damage is difficult to speak.
The damage is social,
because
the population of the State of Rio de Janeiro is consuming
something that at that time might not have been analyzed.
So has this risk. So I think economically it is even difficult to speak,
but social damage will certainly happen.
- But what specific social risk is this?
It is a disease risk.
For example, I haven't done a milk or cheese analysis.
Does that milk, that cheese were contaminated?
European Union, United States, all food eaten there
that comes from Brazil, they want assurance from
the federal government,
from official laboratories.
So I can't understand.
They want government commitment.
Are international agreements.
They want assurance of the public authorities.
- The State of Rio never been without this service, will now be the first time?
Probably. Probably.
I hope not, but
just in a few days you will prove it.
This thing is happening. And these are the facts.
Unfortunately, the movie is repeating over and over again.
It's the same scenario
but with different figurants.
And the way things are taking place,
it could have been, avoided,
that is true
and if this is the deadline you're telling me, January,
, it's improbable
that we get a proper transfer.
That is the truth.
Nobody in their right mind can say "this is possible"...
Even a great expert on this issue would have difficulty to evaluate the time needed to make this change, right?
would have difficulty to evaluate the time needed to make this change, right?
... you can bring a very good team,
you can spend a lot of money
But I don't believe that in 3 months
we can make that change in a really appropriate way.
It will be necessary to test the equipment in the other location, everything, then you'll have to put the process ...
I don't know any laboratory that has been transferred that fast.
that has been transferred that fast.
A time is required.
A time of maturation, etc ... There is a time.
But can't you put that in Maracanã's budget?
I don't know,
I can't say,
but if this budget exists, we are here waiting for it...
If we leave,
there is no laboratory here in private network,
that does all that kind of analysis we do.
Today, there is no licensed lab in Rio de Janeiro.
- I just wanted to know what diseases we're talking about,
if there is a historical
and a prediction that may exist about it, in case of non-functioning of the laboratory during this year of 2013.
If there is no health surveillance
in industrial products that are inspected here,
this opens a very wide range for fraudsters.
Obviously we'll have many low quality products
and contaminated ones.
If you produce
one million liters of a contaminated product,
probably at least a million people
may be infected.
The yellow dye tartrazine, many people are allergic to it. Who will control it? So it's difficult ...
Among other contaminants, isn't it?
The consumer already knows he is allergic, but he can be deceived, right? - And today you can find it, not only in products and beverages,
but in many other products that you find these dyes
that sometimes cause an allergic process that many times the person doesn't know if it's vulnerable...
This range of pathogenic viruses
it would be certainly a pandemic.
An epidemic,
Because a virus like this, a typical case of meats proved by that laboratory which analyzes the meat,
brucellosis,
a fever that is transmitted by the beef...
And cysticercosis, which is also transmitted by meat.
Cysticercosis is transmitted by pork.
Because is the laboratory of animal flesh and part of microbiology that detect it.
But we can also find chemical contaminants in wheat meat.
You need to control it.
You need to control it. There are also frauds, like water excess in chickens, fish, and all of this is controlled through this lab, the animal area.
I just hope a good sense of who will decide, to give it a condition.
Because otherwise, everybody will lose...
Unfortunately ... - Everybody who?
Everyone loses, population loses, the employee loses
because he often runs out of function. - It would be a big disappointment you work
with all this technology, with all this development
and you go through
some oversight,
when you note conformities
and non-conformities,
you aren't studying anymore
what you've been trained for all your life, you studied during your lifetime,
but now,
will you stop?
That's what I think it is absurd for the state,
both as a person and professional,
as to the state
which invested it all...
A dismantled lab,
forsaken equipment, the professional isn't a magic.
The population deserves to be aware of this,
but unfortunately this kind of information
is limited to an isolated group.
So, let's see ...
I hope the outcome is better
than we are imagining it to be.
The biggest crime for me, the most unacceptable, that I think it's horrible
and I thought these people had to go to jail, is whom let the contractors enter, before the lab was sold,
they are more than 2 years in here. Without having been sold, they were here because someone authorized them.
They were informally here.
This unhealthy place...
- And even you suffered...
I'm with chronic sinusitis.
But I'm on vacation. But I just came here today because I have to get some personal things,
because I won't keep up the change.
- Won't you keep up the change? - - Of course not.
- She doesn't have psychological conditions and neither health conditions.
- I didn't even sleep last night... I don't want to say anything else...