Colombia Food and Drug Sanitary Registration

Colombia’s National Institute for the Surveillance of Medicines and Food (INVIMA), their Food & Drug Administration (FDA) equivalent, launched InvimÁgil, a new web-based platform designed to streamline the process of obtaining sanitary registrations, permits, and notifications for products under INVIMA’s regulatory oversight.  The new system immediately impacts food and alcoholic beverages sold in Colombia and will later expand to include all other products with INVMIA oversight. It is a modular system enabling users to complete essential steps such as user account creation, company registration, activity enrollment, and online issuance of marketing authorization and associated documentation.

InvimÁgil will be implemented gradually aligning with existing sanitary regulations and risk-based product classifications. One of the platform’s key innovations is its ability to issue automatic marketing authorizations within a single day for low-risk products and semi-automatic authorizations within 15 to 30 days when prior review or studies are required.

How this impacts U.S. Exporters to Colombia.

The platform officially began operations on May 8, 2025, with the first phase roll-out for only food and alcoholic beverage registrations. To obtain a sanitary registration online, the first step is to create a user account on the platform through the portal InvimÁgil. To ensure full integration, the legal representative of a company or the owner of a commercial establishment (in the case of a natural person) can register their company within the platform. This enables any user to proceed with activity enrollment and product registration, provided that all technical and regulatory requirements are met.

Later this year during the second phase of the new platform roll-out, the module for sanitary notifications required to market cosmetics, household hygiene products, cleaning products, and pesticides will be enabled. In a later phase, the platform will open for medical device registrations. Finally, the module for the registration of medicines will be incorporated.

In the second phase, users can upload and manage required documentation, track the real-time status of their applications, and interact fully online with INVIMA. Interested parties in the national food and alcoholic beverage sector may begin their registration in the InvimÁgil Registration platform and participate in this first phase of implementation by visiting InvimÁgil.

For more information, reach out to:

Rafael Jimenez
Commercial Specialist
Rafael.Jimenez@trade.gov