The National Agency for Regulation, Control, and Sanitary Surveillance (ARCSA in Spanish) has published a draft of the External Instruction Manual for Good Manufacturing Practices Certification – Processed Foods with the aim of establishing the necessary requirements and technical guidelines for certification in Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for food processing plants, both national and foreign.

The General Directorate of Medicines, Supplies and Drugs (Digemid in Spanish), approved the List of Documents Considered Equivalent to the Certificate of Good Manufacturing Practices for the purpose of accepting the Certifications of Pharmaceutical Products issued by the Regulatory Authority of the People’s Republic of China.

According to the Directorial Resolution N° 059-2022-Digemid-DG-Minsa, the documents that do not appear in the following list, may be consulted before the Digemid, in order to be considered equivalent to the certificates of Good Manufacturing Practices, and incorporated in such list if applicable.