Vice-Chancellor of Food and Medicine Dr Sepideh Pouya Pharmacist

Description of the Duties and Responsibilities of the Vice chancellor of Food and Medicine Sector

1. Supervision over and announcement of the regulations pertaining to the establishment of production, distribution and storage centers for medicinal, nutritional, cosmetic and hygienic substances.

   2. Verification and configuration of the documents according to the regulations related to the establishment of medicinal, nutritional, cosmetic and hygienic substances’ distribution and production centers and submitting them to the respective authorities in the ministry’s committee for processing in legal commissions.

   3. Supervision over and announcement of the regulations pertaining to the safety of packaging, labeling and advertising of nutritional, cosmetic and hygienic products.

   4. Investigating the methods for improving storage, distribution and sales of medicinal, nutritional and hygienic products and supervision over the quality of the tasks.

   5. Collection, storage and investigation of the information, statistics and documents pertaining to medicinal, nutritional, cosmetic and hygienic products.

   6. Supervision over the accurate performance of the standards and regulations by the producers for using additives and the utilization of permitted colors and packaging materials; constant control over the qualitative and quantitative correctness of the products.

   7. Supervision over the performance of the standards and regulations by the nutritional, medicinal and hygienic products’ control laboratories.

   8. Supervision over the work procedure of producing institutes for nutritional, medicinal, cosmetic and hygienic materials at the town level.

   9. Supervision over the medicinal affairs of the pharmacies at town level

   10. Control and evaluation of the medicinal, nutritional and hygienic laboratories’ activities at town level

   11. Controlling the supply of medicine according to the needs of medical units

   12. Controlling the request and supply of medicine and conducting technical supervision over dated medicines

   13. Supervision over the storage of special medicines, addictive substances and the quality of performance for affairs

   14. Supervision over the collection of statistics pertaining to medicine consumption during the year for investigating local diseases and reporting to research groups for studying the causes for spreading of diseases for taking appropriate preventive measures

Sub-Units
- Management and supervision over nutritional, cosmetic and hygienic products
- Management of medicinal and narcotic substances
- Management of research and development (R&D)
- Management of nutritional product’s control laboratory