Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has launched a public consultation on the use of e-cigarettes in Brazil on December 12, local time, according to Brazilian media outlet Poder 360.com.
And the consultation will last for 60 days, and everyone has the right to participate. Public consultation (PC) is a decision support mechanism in these countries overseas. And the agency had banned the use of e-atomization in Brazil in 2009. Now according to Antonio Barra Torres, president of Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), when the October 2023 public consultation was announced, the topic will be reassessed after all opinions have been collected.
Local Brazilian stakeholders are reportedly in favor of e-cigarettes being regulated rather than banned altogether.
For example, Brazilian psychiatrist Jorge Costa e Silva, a former director of the World Health Organization (WHO), supports the regulated management of e-atomization. He believes that all bans are bad and opposes a total ban. His point is that what many people do not understand is that regulated regulation and a total ban are two different things.
Gonzalo Vecina, a professor at the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo (Universidade de São Paulo) and former president of the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), is also in favor of the regulated management of e-haze. He likewise notes that the nicotine in e-cigarettes is harmful to health, but he believes that these devices are less harmful than traditional cigarettes. Given that traditional cigarettes are now allowed, he believes that e-cigarettes should also be allowed to be consumed.
And in October of this year Brazilian Senator Soraya Thronicke said that “what is more dangerous than regulation is non-regulation, and that the sale of electronic atomization (vape) in Brazil cannot be allowed to take place unconditionally on the black market.”
Now that the topic of e-nebulization is about to be considered by the Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency, the Senator's proposal to regulate the market and conduct a public consultation with the community is already a major and crucial first step to watch.
Brazil, as one of the largest countries in South America, has seen a surge in e-nebulizer users, over 2.2 million, despite the current ban on e-nebulizers, and the market is already worth over 10 billion RMB, with the number of e-nebulizer users quadrupling in the first 4 years alone. Whether or not the regulation is the best place for the local market to belong and go, it is also one of the best places of opportunity for many of China's offshore e-fogging companies to find a market.
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Dec-29-2023
