National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Spanish) has introduced new electronic forms to register and notify food and packaging to users. The forms will be implemented from September 1st of this year, when the new regulatory framework for the food sector comes into force (RDC 843/2024).

The test event with external users took place on July 18, at the Agency headquarters, where the forms and internal tests were developed. The objective was to validate the functionality of the system and obtain feedback from participants to make final adjustments.

In the tests, 13 participants from companies participated, designated by sectoral associations directly involved in the regulatory process. Users have access to the production environment of the system Request and simulate the filling of information, with technical support from the project development team.

The meeting played an essential role in identifying the difficulties faced by users and verifying the functioning of the system. Participants evaluated the moment as very relevant and productive, considering the use of the intuitive and simple system, according to expectations. All the flow behaved as expected, without critical errors that could compromise the start of use of the new forms, scheduled for September 1st.

Difficulties to complete it and suggestions for improvement will be recorded, which will be carefully analyzed regarding the feasibility of its implementation. Furthermore, questions reported by participants will be used to improve the system manual, which will be available on the Anvisa portal, with the objective of providing the best user experience to all users.