Brazil's health regulator has launched a new technical consultation to gather scientific evidence on industrial hemp cultivation, offering a limited but notable sign of regulatory motion after several years of repeated delays. The National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) is accepting scientific studies on the cultivation of industrial hemp until Dec. 12. The research is intended to inform the technical basis of a future regulation governing hemp cultivation in Brazil.
The initiative is framed strictly as an evidence-gathering exercise. Anvisa is not providing funding, incentives, or participant evaluation. Instead, it is assembling existing scientific literature from journals and research repositories as groundwork for future rulemaking.
A specialized Anvisa committee will review and organize the submitted studies. The results will be published in a public technical report, which the agency says will serve as the scientific foundation for any future hemp growing rules.
The process follows several years in which proposed regulations were repeatedly delayed, most recently after federal authorities cited the complexity of rulemaking and the need for additional technical analysis. The renewed focus on assembling evidence suggests regulators are rebuilding the administrative record after those stalled efforts.
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