Authority & regime
- Competent authority
- ANVISA (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária) is the federal competent authority for medical devices and IVDs: a special regime autonomous body (autarquia sob regime especial) linked to…
- Statutory product scope
- Medical devices fall within ANVISA's statutory scope via Lei 9.782/1999 Art. 8º §1º VI, which covers medical hospital, dental and hemotherapy equipment and materials and laboratory and imag…


