State and local competency in sanitary security: technological aspects

Abstract

ANVISA (National Agency of Sanitary Surveillance) was created by Law 9.782, of 26 January 1999, for the protection of health through sanitary control. Its attributions compete with the regulatory power of other state sectors. The question lies in the normative power and the functions of the new agency. It competes to the Sanitary Surveillance in state and local levels the evaluation and control of technological processes, but conflicts between these two levels occur. As the quality control of products is part of the production process, health care must follow the individual and collective aspects of the constitutional right to health. Science and technology must serve the fundamental rights, including the right to health. The SUS - Unified Health System - by law in charge of the sanitary control of production processes and the National Ministry of Health is in charge of the promotion of technological and scientific research and development, including the different technological aspects dealt by the different state sectors.