Notice - Notification of WTO Members: Draft Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) Notification, No. … B.E. …. (....) issued by virtue of the Food Act B.E. 2522 entitled "Plastic Food Packagings".
| WTO code |
G/SPS/N/THA/484 |
| Date notice |
27/01/2022 |
| Notice type |
Regular |
| Title |
Draft Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) Notification, No. … B.E. …. (....) issued by virtue of the Food Act B.E. 2522 entitled "Plastic Food Packagings". |
| Summary |
The MOPH proposes to revise qualities and standards of certain plastic food packaging whereby the MOPH Notification No. 295 (BE. 2548) entitled "Qualities or Standards of Containers Made from Plastic" on the matter dated 30 December BE. 2548 (2005) will be repealed and replaced by the draft of MOPH Notification No. … B.E. …. (....) issued by virtue of the Food Act B.E. 2522 entitled "Plastic Food Packagings".
By the virtue of the articles 5 and 6(6) of the Food Act of B.E.2522 (1979), the Minister of Public Health hereby issued the (draft) Notification as follows:
Prescribing definition of plastic food packaging and food packaging made from recycled plastic material.
Revising qualities or standards for certain plastic food packaging such as the overall migration limit, the restriction for primary aromatic amines (PAAs), the limit for metal migration and the specific migration limit for certain types of food plastics as listed in Annex I. New plastic food packaging other than those listed in Annex I of the notification shall be evaluated safety by the risk assessment center recognized by Thai Food and Drug Administration and shall submit that report of safety assessment to Thai Food and Drug Administration for approval before marketing or using. It permits to use plastic food packaging made from recycled Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) which recycled PET obtained from secondary recycling or mechanical recycling process shall be evaluated safety and efficiency of recycling technology to prove that it can eliminate or reduce contaminants from input plastic. This notification shall enter into force from the day following the date of its publication in the Government Gazette. Plastic food packagings which have been used prior to this notification comes into force that plastic food packagings can be continuously use but not exceed three years from the date of this notification come into force.6. Plastic food packagings including plastic food packaging made from recycled Polyethylene terephthalate which use from the date of this notification come into force that quality and standard are different from this notification, quality and standard may comply with the quality and standard described in the MOPH Notification No. 295 (BE. 2548) until two years following the date of its publication in the Government Gazette.
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| Product |
Plastic articles in contact with foodstuffs (ICS Code: 67.250) |
| Country |
Thailand |
File attach:
NTHA484.pdf
Orther Notice: