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The British Ambassador, Mr. Simon Collis visited SFDA headquarters in Riyadh, in order to meet with his Excellency the Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Hisham bin Saad Al Jadhey.
The parties have discussed important means of cooperation between the two countries regarding the scoop of food.
Saudi Arabia represented GCC states in the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH), held in Singapore.
The meeting is considered as the largest meeting in the world in the field of creation, development and review of pharmaceutical legislation.
SFDA participated in the (ICH) for the first time with its new membership after being elected from the council in 2019 mid-year.
The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), resembled by the National Pharmacovigilance Centre (NPC), is reviewing preliminary data from a recent study suggesting that patients using sibutramine have a higher number of cardiovascular events (heart attack, stroke, resuscitated cardiac arrest, or death) than patients using a placebo (sugar pill). Sibutramine is marketed as Reductil, a prescription drug, in Saudi Arabia.
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SFDA temporarily embargoed imports of poultry meat, table eggs and products from Veneto area, Italy, due to presence of severe Bird Flu infections.
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SFDA Denied what has been trading recently through social networking on the entry of Israeli Flour product named "Hemorashaty" to the local markets in Tabuk and Jouf regions leading to skin rash (vitiligo )appearance after eating it and then causes Spasm leading to instant death.
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SFDA declares that the analysis result of samples of different lots of Similac Gain Plus 3 Infant Milk Powder , previously sent to accredited international laboratories specialized in the analysis of Clostridium Botulinum bacteria revealed that they are free from this microbe.
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According to what has been mentioned in media about the Italian mozzarella cheese contaminated by dioxin, the SFDA confirms that it knew about the contamination since it happened and it has issued an article about it on its website on 24-3-1429H that equals 1-4-2008.
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