The Vice- Chancellor’s Office in Food & Drug performs the following missions:

•  Maintaining health and security of food stuff, beverages, cosmetics, and sanitary products in the areas under the coverage of the university;
•  Maintaining, providing, and enhancing drug services quality system;
•  Preparing and enhancing people’s accessibility to drug rendering services in the areas under the coverage of the university;
•  Accessing the drug e-system;
•  Supervising the production process of food stuff, beverages, cosmetics,      and sanitary products with a tendency towards reducing the permission issuance office work;
•  Modifying the culture of prescribing and consuming drugs for the better, as well as preventing the untoward drug side effects;
•  Promoting applied research processes in practice;
•  Elevating the quality of food stuff, beverages, cosmetics, and sanitary products manufacture and supply centers, while increasing their technological and scientific knowledge levels;
•  Elevating mass network supervision levels;
•  Elevating scientific and practical potentials of the food and drug supervising system;
•  Promoting the quality of rendering services, and elevating the satisfaction levels of service receivers. 

Special Potential

The National Center of Drug and Toxin Information has begun its mission since summer, 2010, in Vice-Chancellor’s Office in Food and Drugs at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. The center has the potential to be converted into a regional center by having skilled and trained staff, and suitable physical, hardware and software infrastructures. 

Alireza Mortazavi, Pharm. D

Vice- Chancellor in Food and Drug Affaires