The University, represented by the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, participated in the exhibition accompanying the second annual conference of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority, which was held from 14-17/1/1440 A.H. at the International Exhibition Center in Riyadh, where the Department of Veterinary Medicine pavilion was visited by a number of officials, led by His Excellency Dr. Hisham bin Saad Al-Judai, CEO of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority, and Dr. Saleh Al-Dosari, Deputy CEO of the Food Sector.
The Department of Veterinary Medicine distributed brochures to the visitors of the exhibition to introduce the department's postgraduate programs, as well as the specialized training courses held by the department under the supervision of the Institute of Studies and Consulting Services at the university.
For his part, Dr. Abdullah bin Fayez Al-Sayegh, Head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, stressed that this participation came to introduce the veterinarian's fields of work, which include working in the food sector at the Saudi Food and Drug Authority, in the environmental health and foodstuffs departments of the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, in veterinary laboratories and clinics of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, in addition to many other sectors, whether governmental or private.
Al-Sayegh stressed that the participation resulted in informing and discussing with interested parties and visitors to the department's pavilion about the academic programs offered by the Department of Veterinary Medicine and the development mechanisms introduced to raise the efficiency of the veterinarian's work performance in line with the vision of the Kingdom's 2030 vision