Vision
To be a center of excellence in food and health products regulation in Africa!
Mission
To protect and promote public health by ensuring the safety, effectiveness, quality and proper use of regulated products through licensing, inspection, registration, laboratory testing, post-marketing surveillance, community participation, and provision of up-to-date regulatory information.
Objective
The objective of the Authority is to protect the public health by regulating food, medicine and medical devices, blood and blood products, traditional, complementary or alternative medicine, cosmetics, tobacco, quality control service provider, bioequivalence centers and other products and services entrusted to the Authority to regulate.
EFDA Quality Policy
The EFDA leadership is unequivocally committed to establishing a robust, transparent, and efficient Quality Management System (QMS) that fulfils its mission, serves the public interest, and meets legal, regulatory, and customer requirements. We are committed to:
- Implement a QMS compliant with ISO 9001:2015; WHO guidelines such as TRS No.1052, 2024, Annex 4; and TRS No. 1025, 2020, Annex 13; ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for testing; ISO 13485:2016 for medical devices; ISO/IEC 17020:2012 for inspection process; and ISO 27001:2022 for information security.
- Provide adequate financial, physical, technological, and trained human resources to improve and sustain the QMS.
- Ensure highest standards of regulatory service through market authorization, regulatory inspections, licensing establishments, vigilance, post-market surveillance, clinical trial oversight, laboratory testing, public engagement, and provision of up-to-date regulatory information.
- Make decisions based on scientific evidence and risk management to ensure safety, effectiveness, and quality of regulated products.
- Enhance continuous improvement by regularly reviewing quality objectives and performance to ensure QMS effectiveness.
- Engage proactively with stakeholders to meet their needs and expectation, and build trust in the regulatory system.
- Invest in staff competence, development, and integrity, empowering them with necessary resources and authority.
Values
- Public First: all possible efforts are to ensure the best interest of the public at large not for satisfying the interest of some groups or segments of the public and get contribution from the public in the notion of ensuring the health of the public is ensuring my health.
- Integrity and respect: being ethical, professional, objective, honesty and adhering to moral values.
- Continuous improvement:be able to be responsive and adapt policies, systems and processes.
- Accountability:taking full responsibility for our actions and outcomes.
- Quality: strive to deliver the best services to the customers with utmost professionalism and with no compromise on safety and quality of products.
- Commitment: uphold highest standards of conduct and commitments while acting in the best interest of the public.
- Transparency:operate in a fully transparent manner and communicate openly and timely with the public and relevant stakeholders.
- Excellence: demonstrate the highest standards of performance consistent with international standards and best practices; and achieve excellence in regulatory operations and public services through promoting research, innovation, continual learning and openness to change.
- Teamwork: having a united sense of purpose that all members believe to achieve the mission, support one another, work cooperatively and respect one another’s views