Food additives (ICS: 67.220.20)

Draft Ministry of Public Health Notification, No. … B.E. …. (....) entitled "Food Additives (No. 6)". Language(s): Thai and English. Number of pages: 1 and 1

The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) considered that it was appropriate to revise the detail of maximum permitted food additives that have been authorized as follows:

Clause 1 - The Annex I and Annex II of the Notification of the Ministry of Public Health No. 389 B.E. 2561 (2018), Re: Food Additives (No. 5), dated 21 June B.E. 2561 (2018), shall be repealed and replaced with the Annex I and Annex II of this Notification.

Clause 2 - Clause 2 of the Notification of the Ministry of Public Health No. 389 B.E. 2561 (2018), Re: Food Additives (No. 5) shall be repealed.

Clause 3 - Manufacturers or importers of foods, which food additive contained has been approved before this Notification comes into force and the food additives which are different from the Annex of this Notification, shall comply with this Notification, in the cases as follows:

1)    The food product that used food additives under the provisions adopted in B.E. 2561 (2018) according to the Annex I of this Notification shall comply with this Notification from 26 July B.E. 2563 (2020);

2)    The food product that used food additives under the provisions adopted in B.E. 2562 (2019) Annex I, shall comply with this Notification within two years from the date this Notification came into force. Clause 4 - This Notification shall come into force from the day following the date of its publication in the Government Gazette.