The Regulatory Services Department (RSD) of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) aspires to provide an effective regulatory services for ensuring animal and plant health, safety and quality of agricultural products, inputs and sustainable use of natural resources.
The RSD was established in 2003 to regulate the agricultural sector in various ways. In brief it regulates the following:
1. Animal Resources
Import inspection and export certification process
Animal product inspection process in factories
Feed inspection produced by feed processing plans as well as imported feed
Safety and quality of drugs and biologics
2. Plant resources
Import inspection and export certification processes
Seed inspection and certification
safety and quality of agro-chemicals (mainly pesticides)