The hearing was convened by the Senate Committee on Education and Culture to discuss Bill 4,501/2020, which prohibits the sale of ultra-processed foods, fried foods, and products with hydrogenated fats in school cafeterias. The author of the bill is Senator Jaques Wagner (PT-BA).
The bill by Jaques Wagner stipulates that schools must offer at least three options of healthy snacks per day, prioritizing fresh and organic foods, fruits, vegetables, and regional products.
Bruna Pitasi Arguelhes, representative of the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family, and Fight Against Hunger, advocated for the adoption of selective taxes on ultra-processed foods and the limitation of marketing actions related to these products.
In their assessment, the current regulations are weak and facilitate access for children and adolescents to ultra-processed foods, especially in the school environment.
Bruna is a technical analyst of social policies at the National Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security of that ministry. According to the data she presents (see the slides), there are school cafeterias in more than 90% of private schools and in approximately 22% of public schools.
According to her, regulating the sale of food in schools could prevent more than 300,000 cases of obesity in ten years. The studies she cited indicate that where laws exist that restrict the sale of unhealthy foods in school cafeterias, adolescents are 11% less likely to develop obesity.
The National Agency for Regulation, Control, and Health Surveillance (ARCSA in Spanish) announces the public consultation of the Draft External Instruction “Procedure, thru the Ecuadorian Single Window (VUE), for the registration, re-registration, and modification of the Sanitary Registry, Sanitary Notification, Mandatory Sanitary Notification of Processed Foods, Special Regimes, Dietary Supplements, General Use Human Medicines, Biological Products for Human Use, Homeopathic Medicines, Processed Natural Products for Medicinal Use, Medical Devices, Domestic and Industrial Pesticides, Domestic Hygiene Products and Personal Hygiene Absorbent Products and Industrial Use Hygienic Products, Hospital Use Hygienic Disinfectants, and Food Grade Disinfectants; as well as the Recognition of the identification code of the Mandatory Sanitary Notification of Domestic Hygiene Products and Personal Hygiene Absorbent Products.”
The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) approved four Collegiate Board Resolutions (RCC) related to the Brazilian Pharmacopeia (FB). The regulations were reviewed at the 8th Public Meeting of the Collegiate Board in 2026.
The Ministry of Social Development, Assistance, Family, and Fight Against Hunger (MDS in Portuguese) held a workshop on Thursday, June 7, on the development of the Integrated Action Protocol of the National Food and Nutritional Security System (Sisan) in situations of disaster, emergency, and public calamity. The objective is to gather contributions, based on various experiences, for the development of a national protocol that guides the actions of the federative entities in the prevention and response to extreme climate events in the field of food and nutritional security.
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