Not all recipes have an equal risk. Treat them equally costs both ways.
The General Health Act regulates the recipe quite differently depending on the drug: retention with a check book, up to three sizes, or special prescription with a bar code. A single criterion controls some and undercontrols others.
COFEPRIS has already shown that the digital recipe works at the highest risk segment with its system of special electronic receptacles and bidimensional code.
Monitoring of the recipe to be held and registered in the monitoring book, as required by Section 226 of the General Health Act. The time frame is an easy part. The difficult thing is to show months later what was supplied, what recipe and who prescribed it.
Three products, not a consultant.
JAAK offers electronic information and signature software. Test each person directly and we are not an office and this does not replace his or her legal team's advice.
Fingerproof face biometrics, OCR official identification and list consultation, in a single flow.
- Liveness detection (anti-supurization)
- OCR official identification
- Consultation with list and risk
- Expediente digital descargable
Five different regimes, a single counter.
The same person who dispenses has to apply different rules according to what the recipe brings. The system should solve that classification, not the memory of the staff.
fraction I
Maximum riskSpecial recipe with bar code, permission and specific monitoring.
Validation in the official system, retention and complete medical tractability-prescription-patient.
FUNCTION II
Maximum riskPrescription retained at the pharmacy, entry in the control log and validity of thirty days.
Link between dispensation, recipe, date and inventory with full retention of retention.
FUNCTION III
High riskUp to three sizes. It seals and searches each and remains in the third.
Effective monitoring of production that prevents reuse with registration of each disposal.
Antibiotics
High riskSubjects to prescription and dispensation monitoring for their impact on antimicrobial resistance.
Validation of prescriptor and registration of dispensation, even if the documentary regime is less detailed.
Receta general
Laguna normativaA single national rule about signature, format and validation was not found for an uncontrolled recipe.
Each string defines its standard and should be able to justify it. That's where a documented own criterion should be put.
The professional paper was no longer an official ID.
That change had been quite unnoticed and directly affected validation at the disposal point. The amendment to the federal standard made clear that the paper, physical or electronic, did not constitute an official identification: it attested permission to conduct the profession, nothing more.
Current figure: Reforms that person's permission to prescribe.
Identidad: acredita que quien prescribió es el titular de esa cédula.
Integridad: acredita que la receta no fue alterada después de emitirse.
Validate only cape 1 and assume the other two. It's the hole through which the apocryphal recipe enters.
What's the rule about every requirement.
Without intermediate interpretations: instrument, number and what requires in practice. The links to the Official Journal are at the end of the page.
General Health Act
Obliga226 fr. II
Prescription retained at the pharmacy, entry in the control log and validity of thirty days.
General Health Act
Obliga226 fr. III
Up to three dispensings. Each one is stamped and recorded, and the prescription is retained at the third.
General Health Act
Obliga240 a 242
Narcotic drugs with special receptacles, bar code and retention control.
Standard electronic professional paper
ObligaMod. 17/02/2026
The paper attests permission to conduct the profession and does not constitute an official identification.
Special COFEDIS recetaries system
PermiteOperativo
Electronic system for special permits and recipes with two-dimensional code. Evidence that regulated digital recipe already operates in the highest risk segment.
Receta general no controlada
LagunaNo single rule
A single national provision on signature, format and validation was not found and documented internal criteria should be established and the monitoring regime should not be extrapolated.
Statements that circulate and do not resist the number.
We hear them from vendor evaluations and internal committees in this sector.
"If the doctor's paper's valid, the recipe's valid."
The paper attests to his or her professional qualification. It doesn't explain that the person who gave his or her recipe was his or her holder and that his or her recipe was not altered.
Professional electronic cabling standard · 17 / 02 / 2026
"The digital recipe can be supplied at any branch, it's the same system."
The same recipe can be obtained more and more from those allowed without any monitoring with a branch registration.
LGS · 226 fractions II and III
"No electronic recipe regulations in Mexico."
If there is a high risk segment: COFEPRIS operates special electronic recetaries with two-dimensional code. What doesn't exist is a unique national regime for every uncontrolled recipe.
LGS · 240 a 242 · COFEPRIS
Two ways to continue, as necessary.
30 minutes with a product specialist from JAAK
We review his dispensation and show him how to configure KYC To verify patient's identity and prescriptor at the counter. We do not give legal advice: the validation criteria by fraction should be defined by their own regulatory equipment.
To schedule the sittingValidation at the counter
Monitoring patient's identity, validation of prescriptor's card and central production monitoring. API to integrate to the point of sale.
Information material. It does not replace a legal opinion for a particular case. No technology itself guarantees legal validity, prevents sanctions or excludes professional liability. What can do a well-designed system is to reduce gaps of evidence and explain what happened.
Each statement of this page has its official source.
Consulted on July 27, 2026. If you find an up-to-date, write and correct with a date of visible review.