The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) is hosting the Codex Coordinating Committee for the Near East (CCNE) training program, with representatives from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) participating.
The event will take place at SFDA headquarters in Riyadh from September 10 to 12, 2024. The training program aims to enhance the active participation of CCNE member states in Codex activities and operations related to food standards, which are developed using scientific approaches and risk assessment to ensure food safety.

The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) participated in the Lomi Hasawi agriculture exhibition, which hosts officials, business leaders, investors, and farmers.
The exhibition is organized by the Al Ahsa Chamber and runs through Saturday.
During the exhibition, the SFDA will host a workshop focused on its regulatory oversight over facilities and products within its purview. The session will examine the intricacies of registration, licensing procedures, and quality-control methods governing these entities and products.

In a move to strengthen collaboration and knowledge sharing, the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) and the Saudi Culinary Arts Commission signed a memorandum of understanding today. The agreement aims to facilitate the exchange of information on food research, align with related projects and initiatives, and share data and statistics.
The signing ceremony was held at the headquarters of SFDA in Riyadh. The CEO of SFDA, Dr. Hisham Aljadhey, signed the MoU with the CEO of the Culinary Arts Commission, Mayada Badr.

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.