Food Additives (ICS Code(s): 67.220.20)

Draft Ministry of Public Health Notification, No. … B.E. …. (....) entitled "Food Additives (No.5)".

The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) considered that it was appropriate to revise the detail of maximum use levels permitted for food additives:

Clause 1 – The annex I and annex II of the Notification of the Ministry of Public Health No. 381 B.E. 2559 (2016), Re: Food Additives (No.4), shall be repealed and replaced with the annex I and annex II of this Notification.

Clause 2 – Clause 5 of the Notification of the Ministry of Public Health No. 381 B.E. 2559 (2016), Re: Food Additives (No.4) shall be repealed.

Clause 3 – Manufacturers or Importers of Foods, which food additive contained in such food has been approved prior to this Notification comes into force and the food additive is different from the annex of this notification, shall comply with this Notification, as the case may be, as follows:

1)     The food product that used food additives which the provisions is adopted in B.E. 2559 (2016) according to the annex I of this Notification shall comply with this Notification within 2 years as from the date of the Notification of the Ministry of Public Health No. 381 B.E. 2559 (2016), Re: Food Additives (No.4) comes into force.

2)     The food product that used food additives which the provisions is adopted in B.E. 2561 (2018) according to the annex I of this Notification shall comply with this Notification within 2 years as from the date of this Notification comes into force.  Clause 4 – This notification shall come into force as from the day following date of its publication in the Government Gazette.