Formed July 5, 2001 Website www.cofepris.gob.mx | Parent agency Secretariat of Health Founded 5 July 2001 | |
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Jurisdiction Federal government of Mexico Agency executive Mikel Andoni Arriola Peñalosa Profiles | ||
The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (in Spanish, Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios, COFEPRIS) is a regulatory body of the Mexican government. It is a decentralized organ of (and supervised by) the Mexican Secretariat of Health, and is responsible for regulating a variety of health related topics in Mexico, including food safety, pharmaceutical drugs, medical devices, organ transplants, and environmental protection.
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Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA