H.E. The Chief Executive Officer of SFDA, Dr. Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Almish’al hosted Commercial Counselor and Director UK Trade & Investment Mr. \ Chris Innes-Hopkins.

SFDA Executive Management of Monitoring Centers and Crisis Management in Food Sector, Organized a lecture entitled “Crisis Management”, which held on Thursday 20/11/1434, 26/9/2013 in The main Hall of SDFA, Presented by the Dutch expert in Crisis Management Dr. \ Frits van Vugt, in the presence of H.E. Vice President for Food Sector, a number of Executive Directors and a number of SFDA Senior Staff in All interested sectors.

H.E. The Chief Executive Officer of SFDA, Dr.

H.E. The Chief Executive Officer of SFDA, Dr. Abdul Rahman Mohammed Almish’al discussed yesterday with the visiting French Economic delegation of the French Mission in Riyadh, the means of enhancing trade exchange between the two countries, particularly in the field of imported food and the mechanism of implementing imported food conditions and requirements to ensure safety of food and feed and to ease trade flow between the two countries through implementation of  the conditions of entry of imported food. The meeting was attended by H.E.

​ SFDA signed a Memo of Understanding (MoU) with the National Office for Safety of Food Products Morocco. The purpose of the MoU is to enhance and promote the cooperation between the two countries in the field of safety and quality of food products of animal origin, sea-food products, animal feed and veterinary drugs in both counties.

SFDA held,  at its Head Office in Riyadh today, a Press Conference,  for which it called all Media means in order to explain to them the facts about Similac Gain Plus3 Baby Milk. Through the statement released in the Conference, SFDA sought to remove the Kingdom’s- consumer worries about this milk, whereas SFDA previously issued alerts to clarify some facts.

The Press Release came as follows:

SFDA continued its business during Eid Al Fiter holidays in its main offices and sub-branches as well as points of entry of food, drug and medical devices & products sectors, in order to complete all clearance processes by SFDA’s inspectors.

H.E. The Chief Executive officer of SFDA, Dr. Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Almish’al, SFDA Vice Presidents and accompanying delegation visited yesterday, Tuesday, Saudi Customs and Jeddah Islamic Port where they were received by the Director of Jeddah Islamic Port Customs Department, Mr. Mohammed Al Dakheel and the Director of Jeddah Islamic Port, Mr. Sahir Tahlawi and a number of executives.

With the advent of the holy month of Ramadan and in line with SFDA’s Awareness Policy in the field of food and drug, SFDA organized an awareness campaign communicated through social media channels (Twitter, facebook) as well as audiovisual media.