Abstract
This article describes how consumers in Brazil are protected from a food safety and commercial standpoint. It focuses on the development of inspection, laboratory, educational and food-borne disease control programmes. The 1988 Constitution was a landmark in food safety in that it established the municipalization of food control services. The article reviews government initiatives to establish food laws, and to protect consumers from fraud and producers against unfair competition. It concludes that although the legislation is adequate the food control system should be strengthened through better training, improved utilization of laboratories, and the effective control of establishments in slums, in other poor areas, and of street vendors. Post-harvesting techniques should also be improved to reduce food losses.
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