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    The Regulation Of Food And Medicine Under The Ethiopian Legal Regime; In Light Of International Legal Frameworks
    (Addis Ababa University, 2025-02-04) Firehiwot Mequanint; Mellese Damtie
    The Ethiopian government is undertaking multiple initiatives to protect the health rights of its citizens and to meet obligations set by international laws but the pattern of the pattern of the regulation and the institutional arrangement have not been properly investigated. This article analyses the Ethiopian legal and institutional frameworks designed for the regulation of food and medicine. Accordingly, the article argues that some laws governing food and medicine are not sufficient and modern and the existing lawshave left loopholes in mandate overlapping between government institutions in the regulation. This article further argues that the unappealing nature of the food and medicine regulatory regime is attributed to several factors, including the lack of specialized separate government organs regulating food and medicine separately, the absence of consistent institutional arrangements, the existence of wide illegal trade on food and medicine and other factors relating to the public awareness towards illegal practice on food and medicine