His Excellency Dr. Mohammed bin Ahmed Alkanhal, the acting vice executive president of the SFDA, and his Excellency Dr. Ibraheem bin Saad Almuhaize, the vice executive president of food affairs, have traveled to Berlin and Frankfort in Germany; in order to visit some laboratories that inspect food as well as some land borders of Germany which receive imported food to Germany and the European Union. The aim of the visit was to examine the procedures used to inspect imported food in order to make use of the German experience in developing procedures of admitting food imports in Saudi Arabia. This visit goes along with the strategic plan of the SFDA which seeks benefiting from international experiences to organize monitoring duties as a step for the SFDA to hold such duties in the future.