Abstract
Brazil is one of the largest pesticide consumers and agricultural commodity exporters in the world. The country is now fiercely debating updating its agrochemical law for the first time in three decades. The current draft of the bill combines recommendations from 29 other bills. It was first proposed in 2002 by the then senator Blairo Maggi, who served as Brazil’s minister of agriculture from 2016 to the end of 2018. Maggi also owns the Amaggi Group, one of the biggest soy producers in the world. Public debate over the bill ramped up last June after a special commission of Brazil’s National Congress approved the text. One of the most controversial parts of the bill is that it would shift which agencies oversee agricultural chemicals. Currently, three agencies share equal weight and responsibility for evaluating and regulating agrochemicals. The Ministry of Health’s Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) assesses risks of pesticides to
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