El control de medicamentos, aguas y productos biológicos se ha realizado en el país en forma continua desde 1919, como función o bajo la supervisión del Ministerio que con diferentes nombres ha estado encargado de los asuntos de Higiene, Salud, Trabajo y Seguridad Social. Esta actividad se ejecutaba en forma dispersa por intermedio de varias instituciones públicas o privadas lo que llevó, en la última década del siglo pasado a considerar la creación de una institución de orden nacional que tuviera estas funciones y las ejerciera con mayor eficacia. Así nació el Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos (INVIMA) creado por la Ley 100 del 23 de diciembre de 1993, el cual comenzó a ejercer sus funciones a partir de febrero de 1995. Diez años después de su creación, el gobierno ha manifestado sus intenciones de acabar con él y trasladar sus funciones a la Superintendencia Nacional de Salud. Esta decisión conllevaría un enorme retroceso en el sistema de vigilancia y control, en detrimento del aseguramiento de la calidad de los medicamentos y alimentos, como elementos fundamentales en el bienestar y la salud del pueblo colombiano.The control of medications, waters and biological products ace to function of State one eats making in continuous form from 1919 when the Congress of Colombia creó the Bacteriological and Chemical Laboratory, like to dependence of the National Direction of Hygiene calling it “Official Laboratory of Hygiene.” This function of Surveillance and Control is more efficient when in 1947, the government buys the Laboratory “Samper Martínez” to his founders who carried out these controls to his biological products that elaborated in that laboratory. A recount is made the Ministry of Health that has had several names then already in 1920 called himself later Ministry working Hygiene and Social Prevention and 80 years of how it is denominated Ministry of the Social Protection. This Ministry has always worried to exercise the surveillance and control to the medications and allowances, activity that has executed in dispersed form to inclination several institutions what took to consider the creation of an institution of national order that had these functions and it exercised them with more effectiveness. It was born this way the National Institute of Surveillance of Medications and Allowances (INVIMA) created by the Law 100 of December 23 1993 and it began to exercise their functions starting from February of 1995. Ten years after their creation the Government has manifested his intentions of passing his functions to the National Superintendence of Health. Lastly it is questioned if the Government’s attitude is due to a weakness in the operation of this institution or to that has not completed with the functions that were assigned him. Situation that he/she would go in the detriment of the insurance of the quality of the medications and allowances, as fundamental elements in the well-being and the consumer’s health.