Thailand proposed Food Containing Pesticide Residues (No. 2)

For consumer protection, the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) is proposing to revise the MOPH notification concerning the maximum residue level of pesticides in food through a risk-based framework focused on either short-term (acute) or long-term (chronic) exposures using Thai food consumption data and field trial data. The main elements of the draft notification are as follows:

The following Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) are added to the annex 2 of the notification of the Ministry of Public Health, No. 387 (B.E. 2560) (2017), Title: Food Containing Pesticide Residues, issued on 18 August 2017, as follows:

Pesticide                                              Commodity

Carbosulfan                                        Mangosteen

Carbosulfan                                        Mangosteen

Dithiocarbamates                             Longan

Imidacloprid                                       Mangosteen

Dinotefuran                                        Mango

Product covered: Mangosteen, Longan, Mango

HS code: 0804, 0810

Proposed date of adoption: NA

Proposed date of entry into force: NA

Final date for comments: 18-06-2018

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