Council of Ministers Regulation to establish the Ethiopian Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Authority (No. 189/2010).

This Regulation, made under the Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Proclamation, establishes the Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Authority as an autonomous government office and defines its objectives, functions and powers and provides with respect to its administration. The objectives of the Authority shall be to protect the health of consumers by ensuring, among other things: food safety and quality; environmental health protection suitability for individual and community health. The Authority shall, among other things, exercise the powers and duties provided under Article 4 of the Proclamation. The Authority shall have an advisory Board.