Introduction

Scope of action

• Market authorization for products prior to its manufacturing, market exposure or delivery to consumers

• Inspections to ensure manufacturing quality; products’ post-market and post-use activities (monitoring, oversight, complaints’ receipt, etc.)

• Oversight to enforce compliance with sanitary regulations

• Control of the import, export and circulation of ingredients and goods subject to health regulation

• Health regulation actions in services for outpatient care (routine or emergency) and hospitalization; diagnostic support and therapeutic services that entail the incorporation of new technologies

• Coordination of special programmes to monitor the quality of regulated products and services

• Control actions in ports, airports and borders, to ensure the sanitary control of facilities, services and means of transportation, products’ import and the protection of travelers’ health

• Adoption of preemptive and control measures for outbreaks, epidemics and public health emergencies