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SFDA Conducts Field Visits to 197 Pharmaceutical, Medical Device Factories in 2023

2024-06-24

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.

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