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This ESSENTIAL describes conformity procedures for food contact materials (FCM), based on
- Food Act, B.E. 2522 (1979)
- Announcements of the MOPH (Ministry of Public Health)
- TIS Standards
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Content:
- Preamble
- Food Commission
- Permission and Licensing
- Duties of Food Licensees
- Diet
- Food Registration and Advertising
- Staff
- License Suspension and Revocation of Licenses
- Penalties
- Interim Chapters
- Fee Rates
The Announcement defines maximum values for lead, cadmium, other metals, monomers and other chemicals used as materials for containers and vessels used for food production (includes 2 lists of chemicals and concentration limits).
The Announcement defines food additives as specific controlled food.
Food additives mean substances that are not usually used as food or as essential ingredients of foods whether the substances will or will not provide food value, but are added to foods for the benefits of processing technology, food coloring, food enhancing, packaging, storage or transport that will affect the qualities or standards or characteristics of foods. Food additives shall also include substances not added to foods but are in the packaging containers together with the foods for the aforementioned purposes such as moisture absorbers, oxygen absorbers, etc.
Definition of "Contaminant":
Contaminants mean any substance not intentionally added to food, which is present in such food as a result of the production, preparation, processing, packaging, transport or holding of such food transport or as a result of environmental contamination but exclude physical extraneous matters.
The Annex defines maximum levels for:
- Metals (Cadmium, Tin, Lead, Mercury, Arsenic)
- Mycotoxin
- Other chemicals (e.g. Hydrocyanic Acid, Cyclopropenoid Fatty Acid, Vinylchloride Monomer, Chloropropanol etc.)
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