Responsibilities:
Manage and develop an efficient pharmaceutical registration and monitoring systems in Saudi Arabia.
Tasks:
- Licensing of the manufacture, import, export, distribution, promotion and advertising of medicines;
- Assessing the safety, efficacy and quality of medicines, and issuing marketing authorization;
- Inspecting and surveillance of manufacturers, importers, wholesalers and dispensers of medicines;
- Controlling promotion and advertising of medicines;
- Providing independent information on medicines to professionals and the public.
Departments:
- Department of the registration of human medicines.
- Department of the registration of health and herbal preparations.
- Department of the registration of the veterinary medicines.
- Department of pharmaceutical manufacturing and the registration of pharmaceutical companies.