Act No. 5.027 establishing Sanitary Code.
This Act establishes Sanitary Code in order to regulate environmental sector and food quality standards. It consists of 101 articles regulating all matters related to the protection of human health, controls to be carried out on land use plannings (urban and agricultural lands), water and soil pollution control, food quality in order to avoid food contamination, etc. It also establishes controls to be carried out on water quality standards, water discharge and solid residues disposal, veterinary procedures for detecting animal diseases, etc.