  
. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/THA/163 
26 November 2004 
 
 (04-5165) 
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:         
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):   Cow's milk (ICS 67.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Notification of the 
Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) No. 282, B.E. 2547 (2004), entitled "Cow's Milk (No. 2)"  (1 page, in Thai) 
6. Description of content:   Notification of MOPH No. 265, B.E. 2545 (2002), 
dated 19 December B.E. 2545 (2002) is amende d and superseded by this notification as 
follows: 
(1) Item 3 amended as "Milk (fresh) means Milk direct from dairy cattle". (2) "Raw milk" to be amended as "cow's milk". (3) Item 11(1) amended as "Pasteurization mean s the heat treatments for inactivation of 
microbials to the safety level and inhibition of phosphatase enzyme at either one of 
these parameters". 
 (1) 63
o C or above at least 30 min. and lower down to 5o C or below at once;  or 
 (2) 72o C or above at least 15 sec. and lower down to 5o C or below at once;  or 
   (3) any other equivalent parameters to the above. 
  
 (4) Item 24(1) (1.1) (1.1.1) amende d as full cream Cow Milk being processed 
at not above 80
o C and retaining the most quality of cow's milk is eligible to 
be labelled as "Pasteurized Fresh Milk". 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of consumer G/TBT/N/THA/163 
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8. Relevant documents:   - 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  30 August 2004  
Proposed date of entry into force:  The day after being notified in the National Gazette 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days after notification to WTO Members 
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 Agriculture Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS) 
 Division of Agriculture Commodity and Food Standards Policy  3 Ratchadamnern-Nok Road  Bangkok 10200 
 Thailand 
   Tel.: (662) 629-8970  Fax: (662) 629-8978  Web site:  www.acfs.go.th 
 E-mail: sps@acfs.go.th 
 