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ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.98.513
26 October 1998
(98-4152)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  THAILAND
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:  Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Public Health          
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:  Thai Industrial Standards Institute, Ministry of Industry  
        
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Food products          
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Notification of Ministry
of Public Health No. 182 B.E. 2541 (1998) Nutrition Labelling (47 pages, in Thai)          
6. Description of content:  Certain foods as follows are subject to carry nutrition labelling:
- Foods for which nutrition claims are made;
- foods for which nutrient declaration is used for sales promotion;- foods of which indication of target groups is used for sales promotion;- other foods which may be determined afterwards by the FDA.Exclude the following:
- Infant formulas and follow-on formulas for infants and young children;  infant
foods and follow-on foods for infants and young children;  supplementary foods for
infants and young children which are subject to labelling requirements of the
relevant Notifications of the Ministry of Public Health;
- foods which are not directly sold to consumers, or foods which are not made or
imported for sale in the country;
- foods which are packed in the package containing a number of portions.G/TBT/Notif.98.513
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6. Description of content: (cont'd):
Presentation of nutritional labelling shall be in accordance with the principles and
conditions specified in Annexes on Format and Conditions for Presentation of Nutrient
Information, on Determination of Nutrient Content Per Serving and Serving Sizes Per
Packaging, on Thai Recommended Daily Intakes (RDI) and on Nutrition Claims on FoodLabels.
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  To
provide consumers with nutrition information and achieve uniform labelling on food
products.          
8. Relevant documents:
1.  Reference documents:
- Food Act B.E. 2522 (1979);- Codex Alimentarius  1993.  Codex Guidelines on Nutritional Labelling 
CAC/GL 2- 1985 (Rev.1-1993);
- Codex Guidelines for Use of Nutrition Claims (Alinorm 97/22 Appendix II);- U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  1995 Code of Federal Regulations 21 CFR  
Part 101:  Food Labelling
2.  Publication in which the Notification is published when adopted:
- Government Gazette Volume 115, Part 47 ngor, dated 11 June 1998
9. Proposed date of adoption:  20 March 1998
Proposed date of entry into force:  8 December 1998           
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from circulation date          
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ] or address, e-mail and telefax number of
the other body:  Can also be downloaded from:
www.fda.moph.go.th/fda-net/html/product/food/Label1/food.html (in Thai)