Progress of Quality Movement in Saudi Arabia

In 1973, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia established Saudi Arabian Standards Organization (SASO), an independent organization looking after the implementation of standards, local and international and overseeing quality aspects of products locally produced as its major objectives. SASO evolved over time as the most important national organization with broader objectives of formulating and approving national standards for all commodities and products as well as standards concerned with metrology, calibration, marking and identification of commodities and products, methods of sampling, inspection and testing. It is also responsible for setting the rules for granting certificates of conformity and quality marks and regulating their issuance and use. Since 2008, it has come to be known as “Saudi Standards, Metrology & Quality Organization”.