The Saudi Food & Drug Authority (SFDA) announced that the abstract submission for Research Day 2024 is still open. The event will take place on Sunday, October 27, 2024, at the SFDA headquarters.

Abstracts should align with the SFDA Research Day 2024 theme and cover topics related to human drugs, veterinary drugs, herbal products, food, feed, pesticides, medical devices and supplies, cosmetics, and tobacco.

Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) inspectors made 1,713 observations during their visits to 113 pharmaceutical factories in 2023. The visits aimed to ensure that the factories met satisfactory manufacturing criteria before selling products in local markets, ensuring medicine's safety in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Foreign factories comprised 74% of the visits, with 84 factories, while 29 local factories were also inspected. Of these, 102 were human pharmaceutical factories, and 11 were veterinary medicine factories. Inspectors suspended ten of the visited factories.

CEO of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) Dr. Hisham bin Saad Aljadhey headed the SFDA's delegation participating in the 5th Annual Meeting of International Heads of Food Agencies Forum (IHFAF), hosted in Singapore from April 16 to 20, 2024, under the theme "Food Safety for a Resilient and Sustainable World". The meeting witnessed the participation of 18 countries and 22 organizations, including WHO, FAO, and the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

The CEO of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) Dr. Hisham Al-Jadhey, on an official visit to Germany, accompanied by a delegation, has held a meeting with several German and Polish public institutions that support the private sector and food companies.
He provided an overview of the regulations and initiatives the authority had launched to support and facilitate investment, and a briefing about its requirements for listing and registration.