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During the presentation of the book "History of the CPA, 75 years after its creation", the General Director of Animal Health of the National Service of Agri-Food Health, Safety and Quality (Senasica), Juan Gay Gutiérrez, highlighted that the Commission represents the joint effort of two countries that protect their production to ensure food supply for their populations.
The group of veterinarians who founded the CPA faced many challenges, but their work and determination forged the foundations of Mexican veterinary medicine, which is currently one of the most recognized worldwide.
Cristóbal Zepeda and Peter Fernández shared their experience at the head of the Commission during the 1990s and 2000s, a period in which Mexico successfully faced sanitary emergencies, such as rabbit viral hemorrhagic fever, screwworm, and classical swine fever.
It is important to note that the creation of the CPA has been accompanied by the development of infrastructure to deal with sanitary emergencies. In 1947, the Institute for Vaccine Development and Foot and Mouth Disease Research was created, which gave rise to the Livestock Research Center, now part of the National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock Research (INIFAP).
Likewise, in the 1970s, the Mexican Government created the National Veterinary Biologicals Producer (Pronabive), in response to an outbreak of Venezuelan equine encephalitis that began in South America and spread to Mexico's southern border.
In 2019, the Laboratory of Immunology, Molecular and Cellular Biology was inaugurated, which supports emergency work, and in 2022, on the 75th anniversary of the Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture instituted the National Reference Center for the Diagnosis and Research of Exotic and Emerging Diseases of Animals.
January 10, 2024/ Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development/ Mexico.
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