The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) published the new regulatory framework for food regularization in the National Health Surveillance System (SNVS). Collegiate Council Resolution (RDC) 843/2024 and Normative Instruction (IN) 281/2024 improve the pre-marketing control of food, based on risk criteria.

The measure reduces the administrative burden for both the regulatory agency and the food sector, in cases of lower risk, and maintains or increases the rigor, when dealing with high-risk products or with a history of complaints and denunciations.

The new rules define three forms of regularization:

1) Registration with Anvisa.

2) Notification with Anvisa.

3) Notification to the local health surveillance bodies at the beginning of manufacture or importation.