The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA en Portuguese), the Ministry of Health, and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will organize the event “Evidence for Monitoring Food Regulation in Brazil: Contributions to the Implementation of the National Food and Nutrition Policy. The meeting will be held in the Anvisa auditorium in Brasília on October 9, from 1:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The objective of the event is to discuss the advances and evidence related to monitoring food regulation in Brazil as a strategy to support the implementation of the National Food and Nutrition Policy (PNAN), with an emphasis on:

• Presentation of the project “Monitoring Food Labeling in Brazil: Database Organization, Strategic Information Analysis, and Development of a National Monitoring System.”
• Presentation of the characterization of food and beverage labels according to the NOVA classification (which divides foods into four categories based on the level of industrial processing they have undergone: natural or minimally processed foods, processed culinary ingredients, processed foods, and ultra-processed foods).
• Presentation of study results on restricting the use of industrially produced trans fats in foods to support Anvisa’s Regulatory Outcome Assessment (ARR) on the topic.