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G/SPS/N/THA/202/Rev.1 
22 June 2011  
 (11-3076) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES 
 
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 numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Import requirement for food with risk from radionuclide contamination (ICS 
Code 67.040) 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[ ] All trading partners   
[X] Specific regions or countries:  Japan  
5. Title of the notified document:  Draft Ministry of Public Health Notification entitled 
"Import Requirement for Food with Risk from Radionuclide Contamination" 
Language(s):  Thai  Number of pages:  2 
 http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2011/sps/THA/11_1940_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content:  Following the accident of the Fukushima nuclear power plant on 
11 March 2011, causing the leak of radionuclide into environment and leads to the food contamination, MOPH issued the Notification of  the Ministry of Public Health Re:  Import 
Requirement for Food with Risk from Radionuclide Contamination, dated 11 April 2011 
B.E. 2554 (2011) to prevent the risk from radionuclide contamination in food imported 
from Japan.  Since then the situations of f ood contamination in some prefectures have 
changed.  Hence, MOPH considered that  it was appropriate to revise the import 
requirement for food with risk from radionuclide contamination as follows:  
Clause 1 - The Notification of the Ministry of Public Health Re Import Requirement for 
Food with Risk from Radionuclide Contamination, dated  11 April 2011 B.E. 2554 (2011) 
shall be repealed and replaced by this (Draft) MOPH Notification; 
Clause 2 - All kinds of food, except food a dditive and flavouring agent and materials 
intended to preserve food qualities such as desi ccating agent, oxygen absorbent etc. 
originated from the radionuclide contaminated  areas in Japan:  the prefectures of 
Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa, the levels of 
radionuclides, shall be detected not exceeding th e prescribed limits in the Notification of 
the Ministry of Public Health Re: Standard of Food Contaminated with Radionuclide, date 
11 April B.E.2554 (2011).  The importers are required to submit documents indicating the G/SPS/N/THA/202/Rev.1 
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  category, the type of food, the levels of radionuclide and their locations of production for 
every shipment at the import check point, issued by any of the following agencies: 
 (1) The Japanese government competent authority (CA), or 
 (2) Other agencies accepte d by the Japanese government competent authority, or 
 (3) Government laboratory, or   (4) Designated laboratory by government, or  
 (5) Accredited laboratory conforms to the international standard. 
Clause 3 - All kinds of food, except food add itive, flavouring agent and materials intended 
to preserve food qualities originated from prefect ures other than those stated in clause 2, 
importers are required to submit documents indicating the location of harvesting or 
processing for every shipment at the impor t check point issued by the Japanese 
Government competent authority, or ag encies accepted by the Japanese government 
competent authority, or Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Japan. 
In case of not having the above-mentioned documen ts (clause 3) the im porters can submit a 
certificate of analysis that indicates the cate gory, the type of food and the levels of 
radionuclide issued by any of the agen cies stated in clause 2(1) - 2(5). 
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. Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reason for urgent action:  Urgent action was 
needed following the accident at the Fukushima  nuclear power plant and the findings that 
certain foodstuffs from Japan contai n high levels of radioactivity. 
9. Is there a relevant international standard ?  If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text) Codex General Standard for Contam inants and Toxins in Food and 
Feed (Codex Standard 193-1995) : RADIONUCLIDES 
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)   
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)   
[ ] None Does this proposed regulation conform to  the relevant international standard? 
 [X] Yes   [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:    
10. Other relevant documents and langua ge(s) in which these are available:   Notification 
of the Ministry of Public Health entitle d "Standard of Food Contaminated with 
Radionuclide" (as notified in G/SPS/N/THA/201, dated  28 April 2011)   
11. Date of entry into force ( dd/mm/yy )/period of application (as applicable):  On the date 
after being notified in the Official Gazette. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure    G/SPS/N/THA/202/Rev.1 
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  12. 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:    
13. Texts 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  
50 Phaholyothin Road, Ladyao Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900  
Thailand 
Tel:  +(662) 561 4204 Fax:  +(662) 561 4034;  +(662) 561 4088 E-mail:  sps@acfs.go.th  Website:  http://www.acfs.go.th