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RECIFE, Pernambuco – The Brazilian Institute of Environmental and Natural Resources (IBAMA) fined the company Imperio do Forro de Bolso, the Pernambuco textile company responsible for importing tons of medical waste from the United States, about U.S. $3.4 million dollars. The company that owns the ship that brought the two containers seized at the Port of Suape on 11 and 13 October, Hamburg Sud, was fined about U.S. $1.12 million dollars.
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RECIFE, Pernambuco – U.S. law allows the exportation of used material—including material used in hospitals, according to the United States Consul, Usha Pitts, on Thursday afternoon speaking at the consulate in the Northeastern Brazilian city of Recife. The consul met with the FBI attache, Richard Cavalieri, at the consulate to discuss the seizure of medical waste shipped from Charleston, SC to the Port of Suape in Pernambuco.
RECIFE, Pernambuco – The Secretary of Social Defense of Pernambuco, Wilson Damazio, said on Wednesday that the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will assist Brazilian authorities as they investigate the shipment of at least 46 tons of hazardous hospital medical waste from the Port of Charleston, South Carolina to the Port of Suape, Pernambuco.
| RECIFE, Brazil – The Attorney General's Office on Monday asked the Federal Police (PF) to open an investigation into the unlawful importation of medical waste by a clothing company in the Northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. This follows the seizure by federal authorities last week of two shipping containers containing 46 tons of medical waste at the Port of Suape.
RECIFE, Brazil – Two days after seizing a second container with 23 tons of medical waste illegally shipped from the United States bound for a textile company in Pernambuco, the Customs Revenue Office at the Port of Suape has asked Federal Prosecutors to enter the case.
RECIFE, Brazil – Federal tax authorities on Tuesday seized a shipping container filled with over 20 tons of medical waste at the Port of Suape in Pernambuco. This was the second container seized this week shipped from the same U.S. company.
