. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/THA/131 
18 February 2004  
 
(04-0684) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English 
   
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THAILAND
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   The Office of Food and Drug Administration (Thai – FDA) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   National Enquiry 
Point      
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:         
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Tea (HS 2101.20) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   The Notification of 
the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) No. 277 dated 3 December 2003 entitled "Tea (No. 2)" 
6. Description of content:   It is deemed necessary for MOPH to revise the labelling 
requirements of tea products as follows: 
• The Article 14 under the MOPH's notifica tion No. 197 dated 19 September 2000 is 
revised as "the labelling of tea products must be complied with the MOPH's notification regarding general requireme nts of food labelling as well as the label 
content of soluble prepared tea under Article 3 para. 2 must be shown as "it contains caffeine of ... (to indicate the amount) mg/100 ml", the label content must be legible in bold letters at least 2 mm height, fit in  white background box next to food name 
or trade mark." 
• The current required label of soluble prep ared tea which has already acquired the 
food serial number and is produced or impor ted within 90 days since the effective 
date of this Notification, shall be valid. 
• Likewise, the current required label of soluble prepared tea in UHT box, which has 
already acquired the food serial num ber and is produced or imported 
within 180 days since the effective date  of this Notification, shall be valid. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
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8. Relevant documents:   The Official Gazette volume 120, special chapter 144 ng. 
dated 17 December 2003 (1 page, available in Thai) 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  - 
Proposed date of entry into force:  18 December 2003 
10. Final date for comments:   - 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS) 
Division of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards Policy 3 Ratchadamnern-Nok Avenue, Bangkok 10200 
Thailand 
Tel.: (662) 629 8970 Fax: (662) 629 8978 Web site:  www.acfs.go.th E-mail:  sps@acfs.go.th 
 