Mexico’s medicines regulator, Cofepris, is now recognizing good manufacturing practice certificates for manufacturers producing biologic medicines in other countries, including new innovative products and biosimilars.
Mexico To Expand Recognition Of International GMP Certificates For Biologic Medicines
Moves to widen GMP certificate recognition are in line with World Health Organization recommendations on Good Reliance Practices and with the Mexican government’s strategy for regulatory certainty for the pharmaceutical sector, says the country’s drugs regulator.
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