G/TBT/N/THA/215/Rev.2  
 
7 May 2018  
(18-2791) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Revision  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member: THAILAND  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  - 
2. Agency responsible:  The Office of Food and Drug Administration (Thai FDA)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:    
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):  Foods (ICS 
67.040)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft MOPH 
Notification, B.E, entitled "Food products Required to bear Nutrition Labelling and Guideline 
Daily Amounts, GDAs L abelling" (4 page(s), in Thai)  
6. Description of content:  
The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) is proposing to revise the MOPH notification 
concerning "Food products Required to bear Nutrition Labelling and Guideline Daily 
Amounts, GDAs Labelling"   as follows:  
a. The Notification of the Ministry of Public Health No. 374 (B.E. 2559) entitled "Food 
products Required to bear Nutrition Labelling and Guideline Daily Amounts, GDAs 
Labelling" , shall be repealed;  
b. The list of Food products Required to bear Nutrition Labelling and Guideline Daily 
Amounts, GDA Labelling are given below:  
(1) Snack foods including:  
(1.1) Fried or baked potato chips;  
(1.2) Fried or baked popcorns;  
(1.3) Rice crisps or Extruded snack;  
(1.4) Roasted or Salt roasted or Flavoured pea/nut/seed ;  
(1.5) Fried or baked or Flavoured seaweed;  
(1.6) Fried or baked or Flavoured meat snack;  
(1.7) Mixed snack foods containing more than 1 type of snack foods listed in 1.1 -1.6 
(2) Chocolate and Chocolate flavoured confectionery   G/TBT/N/THA/215/Rev.2  
 
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  (3) Bakery pr oducts:  
(3.1) Crackers or biscuits;  
(3.2) Filled wafer.    
(3.3) Cookies  
(3.4) Cake  
(3.5) Pie, pastry, both with and without stuffing  
(4) Semi - processed Foods  
(4.1) Noodle, a sheet of rice noodle (Guay -Jub), wheat noodle, rice vermicelli and mung 
bean ver micelli.  
(4.2) Kao Tom (Boiled rice) and Joke (Porridge rice)  
(5) Chilled and Frozen Ready - to- eat meal   
(6) Beverages   
(6.1) Beverage containing or produced from   fruits, vegetables or herbs which maycontain 
dissolved carbon dioxide or oxygen gas except herbal teas.  
(6.2) Beverage containing or produced fromother constituents, except fruits, vegetables or 
herbs which may contain dissolved carbon dioxide or oxygen gas  
(6.3) Beverage as stipulated in (6.1) or (6.2) in dried form  
(7) Ready - to- drink  tea in dry or liquid form  
(8) Ready - to- drink  coffee in dry or liquid form  
(9) Flavoured milk  
(10) Fermented milk  
(11) Other milk products  
(12) Soy bean beverage  
(13) Ice cream  
In case of Food products under (6) (7) (8) and (12) contained in the returnable glass 
bottle and Ready -to-drink products under (6) (9) (10)(11) and (12) having less than 65 
sq.cm of the front label area on their individual packages, on which the GDA label could 
not be presented, GDA label could be presented via the Nutrition detective  mobile 
application along with displaying of GDA label at the selling place or food shop. 
Nevertheless, if producers intend to display the GDA label on the individual packages, the 
labelling shall be complied with this notification.  
c. Labelling of Nutriti on according to Item 2 shall be complied with either one of the 
following:   
(1) Full Nutrition Information Format according to Clause 1.1 of Attachment No.1 of the 
Notification of Ministry of Public Health: Format and Provision to present nutrition facts, or; 
(2) Brief Nutrition Information Format   according to Clause 1.2 of Attachment No.1 of the 
Notification of Ministry of Public Health Format and Provision to present nutrition facts 
which display only total energy, total fat, protein, total carbohydrate,  sugar, sodium and 
cholesterol in addition if such food contains cholesterol amount more than 2 milligrams per 
serving.  
In case of food intent to   display nutrition claims, utilizing value to promote sale or specify 
consumer groups in sale promotion shall display with form of full text of nutrition facts 
according to Clause 1.1 of Attachment No.1: Format and Provisions of displaying of 
nutrition Information of the Notification of Ministry of Public Health, Re: Nutrition Label;  
(3) Labelling for nutrient con tents of energy, sugar, fat and sodium salts (Guideline Daily 
Amounts, GDA) according to Attachment No.1 of   This Notification of Ministry of Public 
Health;  G/TBT/N/THA/215/Rev.2  
 
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  (4) Labelling of food according to Item 4 (1) -(5) shall display the following text: in bold 
and vis ible letters which its colour contrast with background of box and label "consume 
small amount and exercise for healthy condition".  
In case of Multi -pack and Co -pack with the whole area of label of individual unit is smaller 
than 65 sq.cm shall be Labelled on Co pack provision that calculation is based on amount 
of individual unit.  
d. This notification shall not enforce to the following foods :  
(1) Foods which producers sell directly to consumers  
(2) Foods which   have MOPH Notifications for specific labellin g 
e. This notification shall come into force after 180 days from its publication in the 
Government Gazette.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling  
8. Relevant documents: a. The MOPH Notification No. 374 (B.E. 2559) entitled "Food 
products Required to bear Nutrition Labelling and energy value, sugar, fat, sodium on the 
labels of some kinds of foods Guideline Daily Amounts, GDAs Labelling" (available in Thai).  
b. The MOPH Notif ication No. 182 (B.E. 2541) entitled entitled "Nutrition Labelling" 
(available in Thai)  
9. Proposed date of adoption: To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined  
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone or fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:   
National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS)  
50 Phaholyothin Road, Ladyao  
Chatuchak, Bangk ok 10900  
Thailand  
Tel: +(662) 561 4024  
Fax: +(662) 561 4034  
E-mail: spsthailand@gmail.com  
Website: http://www.acfs.go.th  
 
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