The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) published two reports on Monday, May 4, presenting the results of the food sector. The first document provides an overview of the main achievements in 2025, while the second presents a detailed assessment of the implementation of food-related topics in the Regulatory Agenda (RA) 2024-2025.

The Food Management Activity Report presents a summary of the main results achieved by the area in 2025, with special emphasis on risk and safety assessment processes, food and packaging regulation, the definition of regulatory standards, and actions related to customer service, transparency, and communication.

In the introduction of the document, the General Directorate of Food (GGALI in Portuguese) highlights the most relevant positive impacts of the work developed throughout the year, among which the following stand out:

The advances in the process of evaluating the safety and efficacy of substances and materials have resulted in a shorter average processing time for submitted applications.
Efforts to reorganize the regulatory process for food and packaging, including the structuring of electronic notification, while maintaining the average processing times for registration and post-registration applications; and
The overall results achieved in the implementation of the 2024-2025 Regulatory Agenda.