| Office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Consumer | |
| Native Name: | Spanish; Castilian: Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor |
| Logo Alt: | Logo of PROFECO |
| Image Alt: | PROFECO Offices in Mexico City |
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| Jurisdiction: | Federal government of Mexico |
| Headquarters: | Avenida José Vasconcelos 208, Colonia Condesa, Cuauhtémoc, 06140 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Coordinates: | 19.4135°N -99.1805°W |
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The Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor, or Office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Consumer (PROFECO, for short), is an organization of the Mexican government led by on the Attorney General. Mexico became the second Latin American nation to pass a Federal Consumer Protection Law, on February 5, 1976, and later became the first to create an Office for the Prosecutor.[1] By 1982, the Office had 32 representations, one in each state and one in the Federal District. PROFECO has in total 51 offices all over the republic, and its main office is in Mexico City. The most recent reform of this federal law was signed by the Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto at the beginning of 2018.[2]
PROFECO works together with other organizations like CPSC (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) from the United States. and Health Canada from Canada to guarantee that imported products are safe for consumers.[3] In February 2018, the representatives of these three organizations met in the U.S. to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU). With this agreement these three countries compromised to ensure the quality of imported products for south and North American consumers.[4] The representative of PROFECO in this meeting was the attorney Rogelio Cerda Perez, who has been the federal consumer attorney since August 2017.[5]
| Name | Position | Sworn in | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogelio Cerda Perez | Federal consumer procurator | August 2017 | |
| Raymundo Rodríguez Diego | Verification Deputy Attorney | April 2017 | |
| Pedro Fernando Flamand Gutiérrez | General Coordinator of Administration | -- | |
| Omar Cervantes Rodríguez | General Director of Social Communication | October 2017 | |
| Rafael Ochoa Morales | Legal Deputy Attorney | March 2016 | |
| María de los Ángeles Jasso Cisneros | Deputy Attorney General | September 2017 | |
| Héctor Alejandro Gutiérrez Ordaz | General Director of Planning and Evaluation | November 2015 | |
| Carlos de Jesús Ponce Beltrán | Deputy Attorney for Telecommunications | September 2015 | |
| Juan Carlos Estefan Mafud | General Coordinator of Education and Dissemination | November 2017 | |
| Humberto Lepe Lepe | General Director of Delegations | August 2017 |