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.

The Revenue and Customs Control Agency (ARCA in Spanish) has added Resolution General 5731/25, which incorporates the National Single Window Regime for Foreign Trade in Argentina (VUCEA in Spanish) to include the import notice and the import authorization for food products from the National Institute of Foods (INAL in Spanish) – National Administration of Medicines, Foods and Medical Technology (ANMAT in Spanish).

The Regulatory Decree 35/2025, which amended the Argentine Food Code, enabled the modernization of procedures related to the import and export of food, thereby facilitating trade and enhancing public health protection.

The implementation of this decree was carried out through ANMAT Disposition No. 537/2025, which established new guidelines for obtaining import notices and authorizations, adapting the system to the challenges of the global context and technological advancements.

Among the main achievements are the simplification of procedures, significantly reducing the time and administrative steps required to import or export food, the recognition of international standards, integrating high surveillance sanitary certifications from countries such as Australia, Canada, the European Union, and the United States, among others, as well as the guidelines of the Codex Alimentarius.