Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency

Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency
Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária
Agency overview
Formed26 January 1999 (1999-01-26)
JurisdictionFederative Republic of Brazil
HeadquartersBrasília, Brazil
Employees2206[1]
Annual budgetR$ 3.261.331.118.216,00 (2019) [2]
Agency executive
  • Antonio Barra Torres[3], President-Director
Websitehttps://www.gov.br/anvisa/

The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Portuguese: Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária, Anvisa, literally National Health Surveillance Agency) is a regulatory body of the Brazilian government, created in 1999 during President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's term of office. It is responsible for the regulation and approval of pharmaceutical drugs, sanitary standards and regulation of the food industry.

The agency bills itself as "an independently administered, financially autonomous" regulatory body. It is administered by a five-member collegiate board of directors,[4] who oversee five thematic directorates, assisted by a five-tier oversight structure.[5] Since September 2018 the agency is headed by Antonio Barra Torres.[3]

  1. ^ "Detalhamento dos Servidores Públicos por Órgão - Portal da transparência". www.portaldatransparencia.gov.br. Retrieved Jan 4, 2021.
  2. ^ "Orçamento da despesa - Portal da transparência". www.portaldatransparencia.gov.br. Retrieved Jan 4, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Senado aprova indicação de Antonio Barra Torres para diretor da Anvisa". Idec (in Portuguese). July 15, 2019. Retrieved March 12, 2021.
  4. ^ "Sanitary Surveillance's official website in English". Archived from the original on 2013-02-16.
  5. ^ "ORGANOGRAMA". ANVISA. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

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