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Food – Thailand

Official title

Draft Notification of the Ministry of Public Health (No....) B.E ….Issued by virtue of the Food Act B.E.2522 Re: Prescribed Prohibited Food to be Produced, Imported, or Sold;

Thailand issued an addendum on 11 December 2025 to the earlier TBT notification G/TBT/N/THA/707. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 10 July 2023. The comment period closed on 8 September 2023.

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Products

Foods

Notifying member
Thailand
Status
Adopted, according to its latest notice
Objectives
  • Protection of human health or safety
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/THA/707Latest notice: G/TBT/N/THA/707/Add.1
ICS classification
  • 67.040 Food products in general
Keywords
Food standards

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 8 September 2023
Proposed adoption
To be determined
Proposed entry into force
A day after the date of its publication in the Government Gazette.

What the notification says

Latest notice (⁨G/TBT/N/THA/707/Add.1⁩, 11 December 2025)

The latest notice says the measure was adopted or published.

Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) Notification No. 457 entitled ' Prescribed Prohibited Food to be Produced, Imported, or Sold '

The Draft Ministry of Public Health notification entitled ' Prescribed Prohibited Food to be Produced, Imported, or Sold ', previously notified in G/TBT/N/THA/707 dated 10 July 2023, was published in the Royal Gazette dated 2 May 2025 as the Notification of the Ministry of Public Health No. 457. SPS/TBT (Agricultural Commodity and Foods) Thailand Contact Point E-mail: spsthailand@acfs.go.th, spsthailand@gmail.com Websites:

The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) is proposing to revise the MOPH notification concerning related to ready-to-eat gelatin and jelly as follows: Clause 1 Notification of the Ministry of Public Health No. 263 (B.E.2545 (2002)) Re: Prescribed Prohibited Food to be Produced, Imported, or Sold, 12th September 2002, shall be repealed; Clause 2 Prescribed that ready-to-eat gelatine and jelly which contain glucomannan, konjac flour, flour from taro roots or flour from root crops packed in small containers with diameter or diagonal of the widest part not larger than 4.5 cm. shall be prohibited to be produced, imported, or sold.

Notices on this measure

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  1. AddendumG/TBT/N/THA/707/Add.1

    Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) Notification No. 457 entitled ' Prescribed Prohibited Food to be Produced, Imported, or Sold '

    The Draft Ministry of Public Health notification entitled ' Prescribed Prohibited Food to be Produced, Imported, or Sold ', previously notified in G/TBT/N/THA/707 dated 10 July 2023, was published in the Royal Gazette dated 2 May 2025 as the Notification of the Ministry of Public Health No. 457. SPS/TBT (Agricultural Commodity and Foods) Thailand Contact Point E-mail: spsthailand@acfs.go.th, spsthailand@gmail.com Websites:

  2. Regular notificationG/TBT/N/THA/707

    Comment deadline: Closed on 8 September 2023

    Draft Notification of the Ministry of Public Health (No....) B.E ….Issued by virtue of the Food Act B.E.2522 Re: Prescribed Prohibited Food to be Produced, Imported, or Sold;

    The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) is proposing to revise the MOPH notification concerning related to ready-to-eat gelatin and jelly as follows: Clause 1 Notification of the Ministry of Public Health No. 263 (B.E.2545 (2002)) Re: Prescribed Prohibited Food to be Produced, Imported, or Sold, 12th September 2002, shall be repealed; Clause 2 Prescribed that ready-to-eat gelatine and jelly which contain glucomannan, konjac flour, flour from taro roots or flour from root crops packed in small containers with diameter or diagonal of the widest part not larger than 4.5 cm. shall be prohibited to be produced, imported, or sold.

Sources

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