THA/215/Rev.2
WTO/TBT
TH Thailand
  • 67 - Food technology
2018-07-06
2018-05-14

Foods (ICS 67.040)

Draft MOPH Notification, B.E, entitled "Food products Required to bear Nutrition Labelling and Guideline Daily Amounts, GDAs Labelling" (4 page(s), in Thai)

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entitled "Food products Required to bear Nutrition Labelling and Guideline Daily Amounts, GDAs Labelling" , shall be repealed;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 maycontain 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 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 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 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 Ministry of Public Health;

(4) The labelling of food required to 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" shall be amended from food according to item 4(1) - (5) to food according to item b(1) - (3) which cover snack foods, chocolate and chocolate flavoured confectionery and bakery products.