The Sector is responsible for safety, efficacy, and quality of human, veterinary, herbal, and cosmetic products. Depending through a series of procedure’s and controls in accordance with approved international stander.

Drugs sector objectives:

To do so, the Sector handles tasks such as:

• Registration the pharmaceutical products and companies by Evaluating safety, efficacy, and quality
• Pricing of the pharmaceutical products.
• Developing, reviewing and amending the regulations related to the human, veterinary, herbal and cosmetic medicines according to the international guidelines.
• Post-marketing surveillance of pharmaceutical products and pharmacovigilance activities.
• Evaluating the safety of cosmetic products (Cosmetovigilance).
• Ensuring the availability of the products in the local market through track and trace system (RASD).
• Providing scientific and pharmaceutical information to the consumer and issuing a periodical bulletin for the healthcare practitioners.
• Coordinating with the Ministry of Health and other governmental sectors to promote the safety of regulated products.
• Encouraging and supporting the national pharmaceutical industry in various situations.
• Representing the kingdom of Saudi Arabia in regional and international bodies and organizations in the filed of pharmaceutical products