Vice Chancellor for Food and

Drug Administration

 

Vice Chancellor for Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting and promoting the public health by ensuring the safety, security, and quality of food, beverages, cosmetics and hygienic products, drugs, biological products, medical devices, herbal medicines and dietary supplements.

 

Main Responsibilities:

• Announcing and supervising the rules and regulations for companies which launch, distribute and preserve food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products.

• Regulating and examining documents for launching, distributing and preserving food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies and related units in headquarters to address these issues in legal commissions.

• Monitoring and evaluating processes of packaging, labeling and advertising food, beverages, and cosmetic products.

• Collecting, preserving, and examining the information, statistics and documents regarding pharmaceutical, food, beverages and cosmetic products.

• Monitoring producers’ implementation of the rules and regulations about supplementary additives and colors, and a constant control of products qualitatively and quantitatively.

• Monitoring laboratories’ implementation of the rules and regulations about controlling pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic products.

• Monitoring manufactures’ procedures for producing and distributing pharmaceutical, food, beverages and cosmetic products.

• Monitoring the enforcement of different rules and regulations in drug manufacturing, storage, transportation, distribution, retail, and consumption

• Monitoring and assessing the activities of food and pharmaceutical laboratories.

• Monitoring drug inventory based on the requirements of treatment units.

• Monitoring of controlled drugs and narcotics.

• Monitoring data collection regarding the annual consumption of different drugs for examining local and general disorders in order to report to research groups to investigate the onset of disorders etiologically and to take required preventive measures.

• Monitor and support the implementation of research programs in the field of food and drug.

• Oversee the activities pertaining to teaching the population or informing them on the proper consumption of medicine, food, cosmetics, and personal hygiene products.