diff --git a/pytrustnfe/xml/__init__.py b/pytrustnfe/xml/__init__.py
index 5cf7454..f91c25c 100644
--- a/pytrustnfe/xml/__init__.py
+++ b/pytrustnfe/xml/__init__.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ def render_xml(path, template_name, remove_empty, **nfe):
 
 
 def sanitize_response(response):
+    response = re.sub('encoding="UTF-8"', '', response)
     tree = etree.fromstring(response)
     # Remove namespaces inuteis na resposta
     for elem in tree.getiterator():