شاركت الهيئة العامة للغذاء والدواء بورشة عمل حول قوانين وتشريعات الدراسات السريرية والتي عقدت بدولة تايلاند خلال الفترة من 17-21 مارس عام 2008 م. ومثل الهيئة بورشة العمل الدكتور/ عبدالمحسن بن حميد الرحيمي، مدير إدارة الأبحاث والنشر بقطاع الدواء، حيث قام بتقديم محاضرة حول قانون التجارب السريرية بالمملكة ودور الهيئة العامة للغذاء والدواء، كما تم مناقشة التجارب الدولية في هذا المجال.
وقد شارك بهذه الدورة متحدثون يمثلون قطاعات حكومية وخاصة من عدة دول مثل الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، كندا، ماليزيا، اندونيسيا، والفيتنام بالإضافة إلى الدولة المضيفة تايلاند.

The last poll raised in the SFDA intranet portal was about the awareness of website visitors about drugs side effects and if they concern about asking pharmacists about them. 43% of participants (which is the majority), do not ask about drugs side effects. 28% of them voted for yes, while 29% chose no; they do not ask.
The SFDA has issued numbers of educational leaflets related to food, drug and medical devices matters on its intranet portal aiming to provide safe, reliable and easy reached information.

On Monday 24th of March, 2008, The drug sector at the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) hosted a lecture about generic drugs. The lecture was presented by Dr. Sultan Ghani, the expert in quality assessment of generic drugs in Health Canada. The title of the lecture was (The Generic Drugs Program in Health Canada). Dr. Ghani showed the experience of Health Canada in the field of evaluation, regulation and registration of drugs.

The SFDA hosts Dr. Osama Fayyad, the Executive Vice President of Research and Strategic Data Solutions and Chief Data Officer of Yahoo! on Monday, 14-4-2008, in order to discuss means of cooperation in fields of developing information intranet portals and electronic publishing. In addition, Dr. Fayyad will deliver a lecture about modern tendencies in areas of information, publishing and electronic health, in the head quarter of the SFDA, and it will be attended by number of executive presidents, specialists and leaders work in relative companies.

The SFDA, represented by its Medical Devices Sector, held the first consultation meeting with officials and supervisors of medical devices and products administrations in the Ministries of Health that belong to Gulf Cooperating Countries, in the SFDA headquarter on Monday, 1-4-1429H, 7-4-2008.
During the meeting, the responsibilities of medical devices sector, duties, accomplishments and future plans that belong to monitoring medical devices and products have been enlightened. In addition, a session held with representatives of GCC to

The SFDA hosted Dr. Osama Fayyad, the Executive Vice President of Research and Strategic Data Solutions of Yahoo company, which has the well known search engine Yahoo! on Monday, in order to discuss cooperation means between the two parts in fields of developing information intranet portals and electronic publishing. Dr.

The SFDA, represented by its Food Sector, accompanied with the Saudi delegation specialized in Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, that belongs to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, participated in the Forty- First meeting of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Committee in William Ropard Center- Geneva, during the 31st of March to the 4th of April, 2008.

The SFDA, represented by its drug sector, intends to organize a workshop about drugs pricing, in Riyadh Intercontinental during the 15-16-5-1429H, 20-21-5-2008, in order to improve the mechanism of drug pricing, to have pricing rules that assure providing medicine around the Kingdom with suitable prices and fulfill the interest of all parties. The SFDA, by this workshop, seeks to review the monitoring regulations that relate to its duties and improve them by suggesting the needed modifications.

The SFDA, represented by its medical devices sector, participated in the second Saudi Medical Exhibition under the auspices of his Excellency the Minister of Health Dr. Hamad bin Abdullah Almane. It was held in Al-Jeraisy Hall in Riyadh, on the 15th to the 18th of Rabee Alakher, 1429H; and supervised by the General Directorate of Medical Equipment.

The SFDA, represented by its medical devices sector, has joined the National Competent Authority Report (NCAR) that belongs to the Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF), which includes five members. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia considered the second member that joined the (NCAR) after Hong Kong.
It worth mentioning too, that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has lately joined the Safety Alert Dissemination System (SADS), which belongs to the Asian Harmonization Working Party (AHWP).