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policies concerning drugs, equipment and immunobiologicals and other products of interest to healthand the participation in their production.Law 8,080/90 determines what is to be known as and the scope of sanitary surveillance: a set ofactions capable of eliminating, reducing or preventing the risks to health. Sanitary surveillance mayalso intervene in sanitary issues concerning the environment, the circulation of goods and provision ofservices of relevance to health, including:I- To control any consumer goods directly or indirectly related to health, in all stages andprocesses, from manufacturing to consumption; andII- To control the provision of services directly or indirectly related to health.22.1.2 - Sanitary SurveillanceThis topic is generally regulated by Law 6,360 of 23 September 1976 as amended from time to time.Law 6,360 determines which products, inputs and services are subject to sanitary surveillance.A few months after the enactment of Law 6,360/76, on 25 January 1977 Decree 79,094 was enactedto regulate that Law, which was revoked in 2013 by Decree 8,077 of August 14 th .According to the laws mentioned above, when subject to sanitary surveillance, medicine,pharmaceutical inputs, drugs and the like, cosmetics, hygiene products, perfumes and the like,sanitizing products, products for use in aesthetic correction among others will only be extracted,produced, manufactured, packaged or repackaged, imported, exported, stored, shipped or distributedin accordance with such laws.It is important to point out that in order to conduct any business activity that is subject to sanitarysurveillance, companies must first be granted an operating permit by the federal sanitary surveillanceauthority and obtain all authorizations with the local sanitary surveillance authorities. Once thecompany has all such permits and authorizations, then it is in good standing for sanitary purposes andapt to do business.It is worth noting some concepts, amongst others, which help us understand the subject:Permit: Granted exclusively by the competent department of the Ministry of Health (Ministérioda Saúde - MS) (federal sanitary authority) to authorize companies to carry out such businessactivities that are subject to sanitary surveillance, upon evidence of fulfillment of specifictechnical and administrative requirements.111

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