How to Check a Supplement’s SFDA Registration: A Pharmacy Guide

In this article

1. Why should a pharmacy check registration before stocking a supplement?
2. Where do you check a product’s registration?
3. What do the FOP numbers for Dawaak products mean?
4. What should you check on the box itself?
5. How should you describe registration to customers?
6. Pharmacy or distributor? Get the registration numbers with your quote
7. Frequently asked questions
8. Sources

To check whether a dietary supplement is registered with the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), open the SFDA’s official “List of Notification of Marketing for Food Products (Registered)“, search by registration number or barcode, then open the details and compare the record with the box in your hand: company name, shelf life, storage temperature and weight. This guide is written for pharmacies, pharmacy chains and distributors in Saudi Arabia. It walks through the search step by step, explains the FOP numbers of the four Dawaak products, and lists what to check on the box itself before a product goes on the shelf.

Why should a pharmacy check registration before stocking a supplement?

A supplement reaches the customer from your shelf, and customers trust what a pharmacy stocks far more than an online advert. Checking registration takes a few minutes, protects the pharmacy’s reputation and answers a question customers often type into search: “how do I know a product is registered with the SFDA?” Pharmacy chains and distributors also tend to ask suppliers for this information before listing any new item.

The check is most useful at three moments: before you start with a new supplier, when the first delivery of a new item arrives, and when a customer asks about a product your team does not know.

Where do you check a product’s registration?

The SFDA website offers a service called the “List of Notification of Marketing for Food Products (Registered)”. Supplements registered under the food sector appear in it, including all four Dawaak products, as we confirmed ourselves. The service page sets out the search fields, the result columns and the fields on each product’s detail page.

Step 1: Open the service page

Go to the registered food products list on the SFDA website and start the service to reach the search page. Make sure the address ends in gov.sa; the SFDA page itself points to this as the way to tell a genuine government website.

Step 2: Search by registration number or barcode

The search page has a barcode box and a filter button that opens the other fields: brand name, trade name, item description and registration number.

• Registration number: the most precise option. Ask the supplier for the number and enter it as written, for example FOP-120226-60037. The product appears under a longer reference number that contains it.
• Barcode: handy when the box is in front of you, but the list stores barcodes as 14 digits. When we tested in October 2026, searching the Vita One barcode as printed on the box (0721688166771) returned nothing, while the same code with a leading zero (00721688166771) found the product. If a barcode search fails, add a zero at the start or use the registration number.
• Brand or trade name: useful when you have no number, but results can be long and names are usually in English.

Step 3: Open the details and compare with the box

The results table shows the barcode, registration number, brand name and trade name. The details page adds the company name, item description, shelf life, storage temperature, warnings, contents, weight and unit. This is the important step: compare those fields with the box you received. If the weight, shelf life, storage temperature or company name differ, ask the supplier before you put the product on sale.

On your phone: the Tameni app

The Saudi Ministry of Health describes Tameni, linked to the SFDA, as an app where you can search by product name or scan the barcode, including checking food products by barcode, and use it as a guest. The SFDA says the app helps users search pharmaceutical and food products and medical devices. It suits a quick check at goods-in; for a full review before listing a new item, the list on the SFDA website is the better tool.

What do the FOP numbers for Dawaak products mean?

Each Dawaak product is registered with the SFDA under its own number beginning with FOP. That is the number you enter in the registration number field. The registration number is not printed on current Dawaak boxes; it is on each product page and at the end of this article, and we send it in writing with the quote. In the official list it sits inside a longer reference: Vita One, for example, appears as “FOM-24-56091-FOP-240226-74229-C-37979-40875”, where FOP-240226-74229 is the product number itself.

Here is what our search of the official list returned for the four products:

The brand name for all four in the list is “Dawaak Commercial Company”.

Worked example: the Cal K record against its box

We opened the Cal K details in the official list and compared them with the box:

The other three records match their boxes in the same way: a 24-month shelf life, storage below 25°C, and weights of 33 g for Vita One, 12 g for Ferro B and 45 g for OmeCare.

What should you check on the box itself?

Finding a product in the list does not replace checking the box that arrived. These are quick checks a goods-in team can make in about a minute per item:

Arabic labelling

Product name, description, ingredients, directions, warnings and storage conditions should be clearly written in Arabic; customers read the box before buying and again at home. For the full requirements, the reference is Gulf technical regulation GSO 9:2022 on labelling of prepackaged foods. Dawaak boxes carry their text in both Arabic and English, starting with “Dietary supplement contains”.

Expiry date and batch number

Make sure every box carries an expiry date and batch number, and that the remaining shelf life suits how fast the item sells in your pharmacy. All four Dawaak products have a 24-month shelf life, as in the SFDA record.

Storage conditions

Read the storage line and apply it in the store room and on the shelf. All four Dawaak boxes say: “Keep out of sunlight, at a temperature below 25°C, in a cool dry place.” and “Keep away from the reach of children.” A shelf in direct sun behind the shop window is not the right place for them.

Brand owner and manufacturer

The box should name the product owner, the manufacturer and the country of manufacture. Dawaak products are owned by Dawaak Commercial Company and made in Al Kharj Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. The company name on the SFDA details page should match the manufacturer printed on the box.

Wording of health statements

A food supplement uses wording such as “contributes to…”, not medical language. If a supplement box or leaflet makes medical promises about diseases, that is worth questioning. Here is an example of the wording on a Dawaak box, from Ferro B:

On the box · Ferro B

Iron: “Contributes to the normal formation of red blood cells and hemoglobin.”

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If you cannot find the product

Try more than one search: registration number, then the barcode with a leading zero, then the trade name. If the product still does not appear, ask the supplier for the registration number in writing and hold the stock until you are sure. For enquiries and reports, the SFDA takes calls on its unified contact centre, 19999.

How should you describe registration to customers?

Registration means the product is listed in the SFDA register under a specific number. The accurate wording on a shelf card or in a reply to a customer is therefore “registered with the SFDA under number …”. That is how we show our numbers on our product pages, leaving customers free to check the official list themselves. Usage advice belongs on the box, and all four of our boxes say: “Consult your doctor before use.”

If you are comparing suppliers, registration is one point on a longer list that also covers shelf life, carton specifications and barcodes, ordering flexibility and delivery coverage. You can see the packing specifications of each product on our wholesale supply page before you order.

Pharmacy or distributor? Get the registration numbers with your quote

All four Dawaak products are made in Saudi Arabia and registered with the SFDA under the numbers above. There is no minimum order, you can order by the box or by the carton, and we deliver to every region of the Kingdom. Send your quantities from the wholesale supply page and we contact you within 2 to 24 hours and send you a written quote, or email info@dawaak.com.

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Sources

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1. SFDA: List of Notification of Marketing for Food Products (Registered)
2. SFDA: news item on the Tameni app (Arabic)
3. Saudi Ministry of Health, awareness platform: Tameni (Arabic)
4. SFDA: reports and enquiries through the unified contact centre 19999 (Arabic)
5. GCC Standardization Organization: GSO 9:2022, labelling of prepackaged foods
6. The four Dawaak records in the official SFDA list (searched 27 October 2026), and the box text.