WHEREAS, it is found necessary to protect the public health from unsafe, inefficacious and poor quality modern and traditional medicines;

WHEREAS, it is found necessary to protect the public from health risks emerging out of unsafe and poo quality food;

WHEREAS, it is found necessary to avert health problems due to substandard health institutions, incompetent and unethical health professionals, poor environmental health and communicable disease;

WHEREAS, it is found necessary to control and deter illicit production, trafficking and use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and precursor chemicals;

WHEREAS, in order to make the fragmented and poor quality administrative and regulatory system in the health sector efficient and effective, it is found necessary to establish a new and coordinated food, medicines and health care regulatory system;

NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance with Article 55 (1) of Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, it is hereby proclaimed as follows;