Foods (ICS Code: 67.040)

Draft MOPH Notification, B.E, entitled "Food products Required to bear Nutrition Labelling and Guideline Daily Amounts, GDAs Labelling".

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entitled "Food products Required to bear Nutrition Labelling and Guideline Daily Amounts, GDAs Labelling", shall be repealed;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 foods 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 roasted or Flavoured pea/nut/seed;

(1.5) Fried or baked or Flavoured seaweed;

(1.6) Fried or baked or Flavoured meat snack;

(1.7) Mixed snack foods containing more than 1 type 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.

(4)      Semi-processed foods:

(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)      Beverages:

(6.1) Beverage containing or produced from fruits, vegetables or herbs which may contain dissolved carbon dioxide or 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 Provision 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 amount more than 2 milligrams per serving.

In case of food intent 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 Attachment 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) according to Attachment No.1 of this notification of the Ministry of Public Health;

(4) 

Labelling of food according to Item b (1)-(3) 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 enforce to the following foods:

(1)      Foods which producers sell directly to consumers;

(2)      Foods which have MOPH Notifications for specific labelling. This notification shall come into force after 180 days from its publication in the Government Gazette.