Hazardous Substances

Draft Notification of the Ministry of Public Health Re: criteria and method for production, import, export, transit and possession to providing trade in services of hazardous substance for which the Food and Drug Administration is responsible, B.E. ….; (11 page(s), in Thai)

Ministry of Public Health has proposed the draft Notification of the Ministry of Public Health Re: criteria and method for production, import, export, transit and possession for hire of hazardous substance for which the Food and Drug Administration is responsible, B.E. …. .

The purpose of this draft notification is to revise Draft Notification of the Ministry of Public Health Re: criteria and method for production, import, export, transit and possession to providing trade in services of hazardous substance for which the Food and Drug Administration is responsible which was launched in BE. 2555. 

This draft Notification will replace the BE 2555 version. The major changes in this draft Notification are as follows: Firstly, a section of the requirements regarding transit of hazardous substances is added; so hazardous substances transiter shall control their transited hazardous substances not to be missing or transited via the route not indicated in the transit license and not to change hazardous substances to any other forms or containers. Secondly, who obtained the import notifications and import permits must yearly report import quantity of their hazardous substances as the manufacturers and the exporters do (within January of the upcoming year). The report forms are changed to clarify that even there is no production, export or import, it's still obliged to report. Also, it's required to have a plate at least stated that "No smoking, drinking, eating or storing food." in Thai in the hazardous and production and storage areas.