G/SPS/N/THA/155/Rev.2  
 
7 May 2018  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Revision  
1. Notifying Member: THAILAND  
If applicable, name of local government involved: - 
2. Agency responsible: Food and Drug Administration (Thai FDA)  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable): Foods (ICS Code: 67.040)  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent  relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document: Draft MOPH Notification, B.E, entitled "Food products 
Required to bear Nutrition Labelling and Guideline Daily Amounts, GDAs Labelli ng". 
Language(s): Thai. Number of pages: 4 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/SPS/THA/18_2364_00_x.pdf  
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Labelling" , shall be repealed;  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 f oods 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 ro asted or Flavoured pea/nut/seed ; 
(1.5) Fried or baked or Flavoured seaweed;  
(1.6) Fried or baked or Flavoured mea t snack;  
(1.7) Mixed snack foods containing more than 1 ty pe of snack foods listed in 1.1 -
1.6. 
(2) Chocolate and chocolate flavoured confectionery  
(3) Bakery products:  
(3.1) Crackers or biscuits;  
(3.2) Filled wafer ; 
(3.3) Cookies ; 
(3.4) Cake ; 
(3.5) Pie, pastry, both with and without stuffing . G/SPS/N/THA/155/Rev.2  
 
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  (4) Semi-processed f oods: 
(4.1) Noodle, a sheet of rice noodle (Guay -Jub), wheat noodle, rice vermicelli 
and mung bean vermicelli;  
(4.2) Kao Tom (Boiled rice) and Joke (Porridge rice) . 
(5) Chilled and frozen ready -to-eat meal  
(6) Bevera ges: 
(6.1) Bever age containing or produced from  fruits, vegetables or herbs which  
may contain dissolved carbon dioxide o r 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 Nutrition 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 the Ministry of Public Health: Format and Provi sion to present 
nutrition facts; or  
(2) Brief Nutrition Information Format  according to Clause 1.2 of Attachment No.1 of 
the notification of the 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 a mount more than 2 milligrams per serving.  
In case of food in tent 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 At tachment No.1: Format and Provisions of displaying of 
nutrition Information of the notification of the Ministry of Public Health, Re: Nutrition 
Label;  
(3) Labelling for nutrient contents of energy, sugar, fat and sodium salts (Guideline 
Daily Amounts, GDA) acc ording to Attachment No.1 of  this n otification of the 
Ministry of Public Health;  
(4) Labelling of food according to Item 4 (1) -(5) shall display the following text: in 
bold and visible 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 enfor ce to the following foods : 
(1) Foods which producers sell directly to consumers ; 
(2) Foods which  have MOPH Notifications for specific labelling . 
e. This notification shall come into force after 180 days from its publication in the 
Govern ment Gazette . 
7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [  ] animal health, [  ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  G/SPS/N/THA/155/Rev.2  
 
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  8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) :  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) :  
[X] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes   [  ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standa rd:  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
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"  
b. The MOPH Notification No. 182 (B.E. 2541) enti tled entitled "Nutrition Labelling"  
(available in Thai)  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined.  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined.  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) : After 180 days from its publication in the Government Gazette.  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [X]  Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 6 July 2018  
Agency or autho rity designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification 
Authority, [X]  National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if 
available) of other body:  
National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS)  
50 Phaholyothin R oad, Ladyao  
Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900  
Thailand  
Tel: +(662) 561 4024  
Fax: +(662) 561 4034  
E-mail: spsthailand@gmail.com  
Website: http://www.acfs.go.th  
13. Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:   
National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS)  
50 Phaholyothin Road, Ladyao  
Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900  
Thailand  
Tel: +(662) 561 4024 
Fax: +(662) 561 4034  
E-mail: spsthailand@gmail.com  
Website: http://www.acfs.go.th