​H.E. Dr. Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Kanhal, Chief Executive Officer of SFDA, inaugurated the new Official SFDA Portal: in its totally new, different and updated format, depending on a ‘friendly access feature’. The portal was designed to enable visitors  to access all portal sections from ‘homepage’. The portal included several sections e.g. Food Sector, Drug Sector, Medical devices & Products Sector and Electronic Services. The main menu contains several important sections such as news, alerts, awareness center and communication center. Advanced search feature was updated to help search for a particular item by section or defined date.

In order to reach the largest number of stakeholders and followers of SFDA publications and news, SFDA has established official account on the social communications channels ‘Twitter & Facebook’ and launched SFDA applications on smart phones, “iPhone & Android’ that achieved big number of downloads and visits.

Dr. Al Kanhal stated that the launch of the new portal came as result of  SFDA’s extensive efforts in spreading awareness and providing reliable and secure information and easy access to this information. It gives  live demonstration of SFDA’s endeavors in implementation of Government directions related to e-government and a true translation of its goal regarding achievement of excellence in IT Services quality.

H.E. Dr. Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz Al Eqaili , SFDA Vice President for Planning & IT commented on this event that the website went through several systematic steps that helped it to appear in this level. Previous experience, utilization of modern technologies of information dissemination through ‘iPhone and Android’ applications were reviewed and Support of social communications networks was sought for publication of SFDA’s alerts. A special account was established for SFDA on Twitter named “@saudi_FDA” and contains over 50 thousand customers.