Brazil Updated Plant Registration Procedures for Animal Food and Feed - Foreign Plant Registration Procedures
Report Number: BR2026-0001 Date: January 06, 2026 Country: Brazil Prepared By: USDA FAS Foreign Agricultural Service Source: [USDA GAIN Report](https://apps.fas.usda.gov/newgainapi/api/Report/DownloadReportByFileName?fileName=Brazilian+Ministry+of+Agriculture+Publishes+Updated+Plant+Registration+Procedures+for+Animal+Food+and+Feed+Plant+Registration_Brasilia_Brazil_BR2026-0001.pdf)
Foreign Plant Registration Procedures
Foreign establishment plant registration Foreign animal food and feed establishments seeking to export to Brazil must obtain a simplified registration with MAPA. A foreign establishment manufacturer is defined as an establishment engaged in one or more of the following activities: cultivation, creation, extraction, synthesis or receipt of substance from animal, plant, mineral or some other nature, and performs the manipulation, fractioning, grouping, preparation or storage to obtain products intended for animal food and feed, with the possibility of commercialization. Foreign storage establishments are exempted from registration, as long as no manipulation, fractioning, grouping, preparation or packing takes place. Brazilian legislation requires that all requests be sent with documents that attest plant registration by the U.S. competent authority, as well as a Good Manufacturing Practices declaration by the U.S. competent authority.
Requesting plant registration
Plant Registration - U.S. portion For plants under the Food and Drug Administration authority, the procedure is the following: The U.S. animal food and feed plant will apply online for the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) export certificates and request the following certificates: 1 - Certificate of Free Sale for Animal Food (COFS) 2 – Current Good Manufacturing Practice Certificate (CGMP). The US plant must be under a government regulatory inspection program.
Applications for all CVM export certificates may be submitted through the FDA Industry Systems web page4. If the company is unable to use CVM eCATS, it may contact FDA for assistance at CVMExportCertification@fda.hhs.gov. The company can access CVM eCATS through the FDA Industry Systems web page linked above. Enter the FDA’s 4 out of 8 Unified Registration and Listing System (FURLS) Account ID and
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https://www.access.fda.gov/oaa/logonFlow.htm?execution=e2s1
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password, click the “I understand” radio-button, and then Login. For questions, the company may click on the “Help Desk” link on the same web page. There are multiple certificates available to apply. The two certificates required and agreed upon with the Brazilian sanitary authorities are the COFS and the CGMP.
Plant Registration – Brazil Portion The U.S. animal food and feed plants seeking to export to Brazil are required to submit a “Letter of Request for Plant Approval” (Appendix 2) to the USDA FAS/Brasília (OAA) to request plant registration. The letter should be signed by a company representative and can include one or more plants from the same company. The Letter of Request for Approval should have the following information for each plant that registration is requested: a. Establishment Control Number: The unique number provided by the U.S. Competent Authority to that specific plant. Different plants can not share the same plant number; b. Establishment Corporate Name: The establishment corporate name the official U.S. Competent Authority database; c. Address, Zip Code, State: Describe full address, indicating avenue, street, district, number, etc.; d. Purpose: Intended for Animal Food (type “Destinado à Alimentação Animal”) e. Area: Animal Food and Feed (type “Alimentação Animal”) f. Category(ies): Include just the number(s) of the category. Options are: 1 – Additive; 2 – Ingredient; 3 – Feed; 4 – Food; 5 – Supplement; 6 – Premix; 7 – Nucleus;
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8 – Concentrate; 9 – Chewable. Attention: The determination of which category to apply for must follow the definitions of the categories available in Appendix 1. MAPA will not accept product that is not categorized properly, and for which the plant does not have approval. g. Contact information of the establishment representative: Please include name, title, telephone number, and email.
Example:
In the request to FAS, the company will provide a packet containing the following documents for each plant: a) Letter of Request for Approval; If submitting a request for multiple plants at the same time, one letter with all information for each plant suffices. b) FDA Certificate of Free Sale showing the importing country as Brazil, and with the attestation informing plant registration; c) FDA Current Good Manufacturing Practice Certificate (CGMP); d) Translation of the documents; and, MAPA will only accept documents evaluated and sent by the foreign authorities – and not directly by the exporters. A simple informal translation is acceptable in those cases. The Letter of Request for Approval does not need to be translated. e) Apostille is required if the certificates do not have a mechanism which MAPA can use to verify their authenticity online, such as a QR Code.
The OAA will liaise with MAPA on behalf of the FDA and the company. FAS will review the packet, prepare a cover letter and officially submit the request to MAPA. Upon receiving a request for plant
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registration, MAPA will review it for compliance. If approved, the plant will be added to MAPA's database of plants authorized to export to Brazil. The database is available at the following link5. Once MAPA completes the registration process, they will notify the OAA, which will then confirm the registration with the company. Once the plant is registered with MAPA, the company will be able to register users and labels in MAPA’s online system, request Import Licenses, and begin exporting to Brazil. Please note that products manufactured prior to the registration date will not be accepted into Brazil and could lead to official notifications against the company and stuck shipment(s). For plants that were already exporting to Brazil prior to the change in legislation, products may continue to be produced under the importer’s name and exported to Brazil until July 7, 2030.
Plant Update and Exclusion in the MAPA System: If a U.S. exporter needs to modify the registration of a plant already listed with MAPA (such as changes to the name of the plant, or to the categories of goods to be exported, for instance), the process is the same as for plant registration with the exception of using a different letter format. Please use the Letter of Request for Plant Update (Appendix 3). In the letter, the exporter must specify the information as presently listed in the MAPA system under the "previous" section and indicate the desired modifications under the "current" section. Please note that the “current” line should list all fields, regardless of modifications not being requested for some fields. If there is no modification on a specific field, please repeat the information as listed in the “previous” line. If categories are being added, please keep the original information and add the new categories. Example:
If an approved category is no longer listed on the “current” line, the information will be updated to remove that category, and the company will no longer be allowed to export products under that category to Brazil. If a company wishes to be removed from the list of plants authorized to export to Brazil, the process follows the same steps as plant registration but requires the Letter of Request for Plant Exclusion (Appendix 4). This letter only needs to include the plant's control number and corporate name. 5
https://sistemas.agricultura.gov.br/pga_sigsif/pages/view/sigsif/consultahabilitacaoestrang/indexEstabelecimentoEstrangeiro. xhtml
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Should you need assistance in this process, please reach out to agbrasilia@state.gov.
Source
USDA GAIN (Global Agricultural Information Network) Original source: USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
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*Last updated: 2026-07-18*