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Saturday's Público Investigation Reads Portugal's Suplementos Alimentares Pipeline as a 47% Adult-Use Wave, a +80%-in-Ten-Years Notification Surge and a DGAV Backlog Tracked in 'Tens of Thousands of Avulso Emails'

Saturday's Público Investigation Reads Portugal's Suplementos Alimentares Pipeline as a 47% Adult-Use Wave, a +80%-in-Ten-Years Notification Surge and a DGAV Backlog Tracked in 'Tens of Thousands of Avulso Emails'

Público's Saturday 6 June 2026 multi-part investigation by João Pinhal and Tiago Ramalho lands the Portuguese food-supplement (suplementos alimentares) market in a regulatory frame that the country's own Direção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária...
The Portugal Brief
Claiming Subsídio de Doença (Sick Pay) in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the CIT Digital Certificate, the 6-Month Prazo de Garantia, the 55-60-70-75% Reference-Remuneration Bands and the €5.37 IAS Floor

Claiming Subsídio de Doença (Sick Pay) in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the CIT Digital Certificate, the 6-Month Prazo de Garantia, the 55-60-70-75% Reference-Remuneration Bands and the €5.37 IAS Floor

Subsídio de Doença — the cash benefit paid by Segurança Social when a registered worker is medically unable to work — is one of the load-bearing social-protection payments in the Portuguese system. The 2026 régime sits on the Decreto-Lei 28/2004...
The Portugal Brief
Ministério da Saúde Switches the SNS Heatwave Plano de Contingência to Nível 1 on Wednesday 27 May — INEM Call Surge and the European Cúpula de Calor Stress-Test the March 2026 Mandatory Seasonal-Risk Decree

Ministério da Saúde Switches the SNS Heatwave Plano de Contingência to Nível 1 on Wednesday 27 May — INEM Call Surge and the European Cúpula de Calor Stress-Test the March 2026 Mandatory Seasonal-Risk Decree

Minister Ana Paula Martins switched the SNS heatwave plano de contingência to Nível 1 on Wednesday after an INEM call surge, an IPMA aviso amarelo and a European heat dome pushed inland Portugal toward 40°C — the first stress-test of the four-tier framework set by the 31 March decree.
The Portugal Brief
Sunlit Alentejo hillside with olive trees under a hot sky — IPMA's Saturday outlook calls 35°C in the Alentejo Sun-Tue under a North African air mass.

IPMA Forecasts 35°C in the Alentejo and Tejo Valley From Sunday Through Tuesday as a North African Air Mass Drives the First Sustained Heat Spell of 2026 — DGS Reissues the Mid-Day Sun Advisory and Hydration Note Into the Long Weekend

IPMA's Saturday-evening outlook calls 35°C across the Alentejo and Tejo Valley between Sunday and Tuesday as a North African air mass with Saharan dust drives mainland Portugal's first sustained heat spell of 2026 — DGS reissues the hydration and mid-day sun advisory ahead of the long weekend.
The Portugal Brief