G/SPS/N/THA/216/Add.2  
 
28 May 2020  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 27 May 2020, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Thailand . 
 
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Thai Agricultural Standard entitled "Peanut Kernel: Maximum Level of Aflatoxin"  
National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS), Ministry of Agriculture and 
Cooperatives, notified in G/SPS/N/THA/216 dated on 23 July 2013, has been adopted as notification 
of ACFS regarding Peanut Kernel: Maximum Level of Aflatoxin i n the Official Gazette dated 7 January 
B.E. 2559 (2016) as notified in G/SPS/N/TH/216/Add.1 dated 3 February 2016 .  
ACFS is proposing to revise the ACFS Notification concerning "List of International Standards 
Conforming to Mandatory Standards", dated 3 Ap ril 2020 (B.E. 2563) as follows:  
1.    ACFS Notification entitle: List of International Standards conforming to Mandatory Standards, 
dated 17 July B.E. 2560 (2017) and ACFS Notification entitle: List of International Standards 
Conforming to Mandatory Stand ards (No. 2), dated 26 September B.E. 2560 (2017) shall be repealed;  
2.    International Standards conforming to the Ministerial Regulation on the Establishment of Thai 
Agricultural Standard on Peanut Kernel: Maximum Level of Aflatoxin as mandatory standar d B.E. 
2558 (2015) are as follows:  
2.1 Either the system standards or production system standards, namely:  
      2.1.1 Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) complied with Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene 
or equivalent;  
      2.1.2 Hazards Analysis and Critical Control Point System (HACCP) complied with Codex General 
Principles of Food Hygiene or equivalent;  
      2.1.3 Food Safety Management System (FSMS) complied with ISO/IEC 22000  
2.2 Aflatoxin analytical standards established by national organization  or international organizations 
such as Codex Alimentarius (Codex), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), AOAC 
International (AOAC) or analytical methods published in manual or international journals or analytical 
methods with the validatio n results obtained through the acknowledge procedures.  
This notification shall come into force after ninety days from the date of its announced (2 July 2020).  
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  This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[ ] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[X] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force  
[ ] Other:  
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure 
in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of 
comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other 
circumstances, such as extension of originally announced fin al date for comments, the 
comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) :  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification Authority, 
[X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other 
body:  
Thailand SPS Enquiry Point  
E-mail: spsthailand@gmail.com  
Websites: http://www.acfs.go.th   
http://www.spsthailand.net/   
Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body : 
Thailand SPS Enquiry Point  
E-mail: spsthailand@gmail.com  
Websites: http://www.acfs.go.th   
http://www.spsthailand.net/   
 
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