His Excellency, the acting executive president of SFDA, Dr. Mohammed bin Ahmed Alkanal inaugurates the Saudi Package Drug Insert on Saturday afternoon 29-12-1429H, 27-12-2008. The drug sector of the SFDA had set the Saudi Package Drug Insert (SPDI); which has more than 1400 pages and contains important scientific information about three thousand drug marketed in the Kingdom. The information was classified in several parts; a content for drug companies, their drugs and addresses, a content of trademarks names, a content for scientific names of drugs, a content for curative groups of drugs, an Atlas for capsules and tablets images categorized according to factories and the last part contains scientific inserts of drugs categorized according to factories too.
The package is available as a book and a compact disc (CD) containing all the previous information beside a program to facilitate the process of searching for the name of a drug or a factory, the shape of a capsule or a tablet and through information written on capsules and drugs as it shows the images of them. In addition, the program provides the characteristic of inquiring about the price of drugs in pharmacies.
It worth mention that the Kingdome is one of the first countries which has set such Atlas for drugs; to enable doctors and pharmacists recognizing drugs speedily in case of poisoning through the shape of capsules and tablets.