The General Directorate of Surveillance (DINAVISA in Spanish) publishes the Comprehensive Plan for Inspection, Surveillance, and Control of Food, along with the Food Control Matrix, within the framework of the competencies of the National Directorate of Sanitary Surveillance.

Law No. 6788/2021, amended by Law No. 7361/2024, establishes the autonomy of the National Directorate of Sanitary Surveillance. Article 3 states that the National Directorate of Sanitary Surveillance (DINAVISA) will be the authority responsible for the sanitary regulation of health products such as medications and related items, as well as for food and related products. This includes the competencies for the regulation, control, and oversight of food and other substances associated with food, beverages, additives, and food supplements, dietary foods, raw materials intended for food use, packaging in contact with food, or similar items intended for human consumption. Furthermore, it encompasses the regulation, control, authorization, and oversight of establishments and activities conducted by individuals or legal entities involved in the stages of food handling, manufacturing, preparation, storage, packaging, quality control, distribution, sale, marketing, transportation, representation, importation, exportation, packaging, labeling, information, and advertising of food, as well as the technologies applied in the food industry, including authorization, inspection, sanitary registration, renewal of sanitary registration, dispatch, importation, and exportation, and any other concept related to its functions.