National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (SENASA)

The National Service of Agrifood Health and Quality is a decentralized body, with economic-financial and technical-administrative autarchy and equipped with its own legal status, under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, responsible for executing national policies on health and animal and plant quality and food safety of its competition, as well as verifying compliance with current regulations in the field.

It is also within its competence the control of federal traffic and imports and exports of products, by-products and derivatives of animal and vegetable origin, agri-food products, drug-veterinarians and agrochemicals, fertilizers and amendments.