In a poll raised by the SFDA on its intranet portal about advertisements of drugs and food products, 68.35% voted that they do not trust such ads and consumers are deceived by them. However, 24.31% think that they are realistic to some extent, while 3.67% believe that they are quite realistic. The remaining 3.67% voted (I don’t know).
The SFDA drug sector started an educational program of medicine; which aims to introduce the authority, raise consumers awareness about issues related to drugs and their different kinds whether herbal or chemical and the SFDA role in protecting the community. As a first step, six million leaflets and two hundred thousands stickers have been distributed to hospitals, health centers (clinics) and some of them to
Some of SFDA employees participated in a symposium entitled "Activities of Authorizing Products and Procedures of Conformity Assessment", which was organized by the Saudi Arabia authority of standards and specifications. The participants were: food consultants and specialists, chemists and specialists of medical devices from SFDA different sectors.
D. David Jukes, an international food laws expert and a professor of food law in Reading University, examined the Saudi food law draft with the officials of the SFDA to ratify its final version before submitting it to specialized authorities.
A number of SFDA employees from its different sectors has attended the workshop of GSO (Standardization Organization for GCC) and UNIDO (United Nation Industrial Development Organization) entitled "Harmonization of Standards, Technical Regulations, Conformity Assessment, Metrology and Accreditation in the GCC Countries" during the 2nd to 3rd of June, 2007, in the headquarter of the Saudi Arabia Authority of Standards and Specifications in Riyadh.
The SFDA, represented by its medical devices sector, participated in the first international medical exhibition which was held in the Four Season Hotel in Riyadh and inaugurated by his Excellency d. Hamad bin Abdullah Almanee, the minister of health. It worth mentioning, that it started from the 17th to the 20th of Jumada Alawal, 1428H, and it was accompanied with a distinctive scientific program and attended by a large number of officials and specialists.
The SFDA, represented by its food sector, organizes a lecture entitled "Best International Procedures for Limiting Pesticides Residue in Food and Lessons of Other Countries Experiences". The lecture is addressed by the vice general director of The Authority of Food Safety in Hungary d. Erbard Embrous, on Wednesday 27-5-1428H, corresponding to 13-6-2007AD, at 10, 30 a.m. in the SFDA headquarter.
These efforts reflect the educational role played by the SFDA to raise the awareness level of people i.e. consumers as well as workers in food fields.
The SFDA food sector is planning to establish a center to monitor residues of pesticides and chemical pollutants in food. In this regard, d. Ibraheem bin Saad Almuhaize, the vice executive president of food affairs stated that food sector will start establishing a laboratory to monitor pesticides residues as a first step of this center.
The Saudi Food & Drug Authority
represented by the Medical Devices Sector is
delighted to invite:
His Excellency d.
