Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency
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.The agency bills itself as "an independently administered, financially autonomous" regulatory body.[7] The agency also runs a program for checking pesticide levels in food crops found in supermarkets.However, in May 2022, the agency reached a mark of 3 years without publishing its results, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason.The agency also refused to publish partial results from the last tests performed in 2018 and 2019.