Over 3 million cups of coffee deemed unfit removed from the market, says Mapa

A series of operations carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) in Paraná in 2025 resulted in the seizure of more than 40 tons of roasted and ground coffee with irregularities. The actions, conducted by the Inspection Service for Products of Plant Origin (SIPOV-PR), identified fraud in batches acquired by public bodies, with impurity levels far above the permitted and misleading information on the labeling. According to data released by Mapa, one of the most recent operations, carried out in Curitiba, collected more than 21 tons of the product in 500 g packages. One of the batches has already been deemed unfit for consumption, according to a laboratory report that detected the presence of foreign matter four times higher than the legal limit of 1%, as established by Ordinance SDA No. 570/2022. In another action in the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba, auditors found impurity levels three times above the permitted, in addition to the absence of the coffee ...