Mario Pinotti

Mario attended the pharmacy school at Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, and graduated in 1918 at the National College of Medicine, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

[2] After graduation, Mario Pinotti was appointed as rural sanitary inspector of the National Department of Public Health in 1919.

Back to the National Health Department, Pinotti worked in the campaign against yellow fever from 1928 to 1931.

[3] Pinotti introduced the strategy of putting chloroquine into common cooking salt as a way of distributing the drug as a prophylactic on a wide scale.

After early 1950s trials, Pinotti's salt was widely distributed in Brazil,[3] subsequently, it was employed in South America as well as parts of Africa and Asia.