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    Latin America Roundup: Mexico, Colombia and Cuba press for Pan-American regulatory body

    Regulatory Focus is pleased to announce a new biweekly Latin America Roundup focused on regulatory issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. If you have any tips or stories we missed, please send them to news@raps.org .   A frequent post-pandemic theme among Latin American agencies has been coordination and harmonization among regional regulators.   Earlier this year the Mexican government formally backed the creation of a Latin American Medicines Agency, a pan...
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    Latin America Roundup: COFEPRIS hosts FDA delegation with focus on devices, platforms

    Regulatory Focus is pleased to announce a new biweekly Latin America Roundup focused on regulatory issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. If you have any tips or stories we missed, please send them to news@raps.org . Mexico’s Federal Commission for the Protection against Health Risks (COFEPRIS) hosted a meeting in February with officials from the US FDA, including Katherine Serrano, the agency’s Latin America director. The focus of the meeting was increasing coll...