WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/THA/195 
1 October 2010  
 (10-4999) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  THAILAND
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  The Office of Food and Drug Administration (Thai FDA) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Food additives 
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 Notification of MOPH entitled, "Application of 
Probiotic as Food Component"  Language:  Thai  Number of pages:  4  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2010/sps/THA/10_3622_00_x.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/sps/THA/10_3622_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content:  This draft regulation proposes to establish criteria for the use of 
probiotic as food component as follows: 
• No.1 Probiotic is not included in the list of prohibited microorganism, bacteria or 
yeast in food of the MOPH.Notifications as appeared in Annex 1. 
• No.2 "Probiotic" means the living micr oorganisms when administered in a 
sufficient quantity, will have beneficial  effect on the host organism, exempting 
biotherapeutic agents, beneficial microorga nism that not being used in food and 
genetically modified microorganism. 
 "Health Claim" means statement or ot her information related to food, food 
 component or nutritions that are associated directly and indirectly with health. 
• No.3 Application of probiotic as food component shall be permitted by Thai Food 
and Drug Administration. 
 3.1 Probiotic as food component shall be as listed in Annex II.  Other than that  
shall be subject to the demonstration of evidence of safe use and probiotic 
properties following the criteria issued by Thai Food and Drug Administration.  
 3.2 Food contains probiotic shall remain viable probiotic not less than 1,000,000 
colonies per gram of food during the period of storage and use. 
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  • No.4 Probiotic health claim shall be follo wed the criteria issued by Thai Food and 
Drug Administration. 
• No. 5 Food containing probiotic shall be labeled in accordance with:  
 (1) the Notifications of the Ministry of Public Health, Re: Label  (2) the MOPH Notification of such food. 
 Wherever health claim is referred, the following details shall be labelled: 
 - Genus, Species and Strain of probiotic added 
 - quantity and recommended duration for the benefit to the consumers as claim  - statement of health claim  - direction of usage and storage condition  - contact address, telephone num ber or website for consumers 
• No. 6 Packaging for food containing probiotic shall follow the Notification of the 
Ministry of Public Health, Re: Packaging. 
• No.7 This Notification shall be enforced after the date of its publication in the 
Government 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.    
8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  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 standard:    
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Food 
Sanitation Law (available in English).  When  adopted, these MRLs are to be published in 
"KAMPO" (Official Government Gazette) (available in Japanese) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  October 2010 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  October 2010 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  As soon as possible after publication 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure    G/SPS/N/THA/195 
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  12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  October 2010 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:    
13. Texts available from:  [ ] National Notification  Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: