Labelling:
The Thailand Ministry of Public Health requires that food products have nutrition labelling and Guideline Daily Amounts (GDA) labelling.
To comply with GDA labelling, nutrient information (such as energy value, sugar, fat and sodium) in relation to the food must be declared in terms of percentage of Recommended Daily intake (RDI) per package.
Food products required to bear nutrition labelling and Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs) labelling are as follows:
- (1) Snacks including:
- (1.1) Fried or baked potato chips;
- (1.2) Fried or baked corn;
- (1.3) Rice crisps or extruded snack;
- (1.4) Roasted or salty roasted or flavoured legumes/nuts/seeds;
- (1.5) Fried or baked or flavoured seaweed;
- (1.6) Fried or baked or flavoured meat-based snacks;
- (1.7) Mixed snacks containing more than one type of snacks listed in (1.1) – (1.6)
- (2) Chocolate and Chocolate flavoured like products
- (3) Bakery products including:
- (3.1) Crackers or biscuits;
- (3.2) Filled wafers;
- (3.3) Cookies;
- (3.4) Cake;
- (3.5) Pies and pastries, both with and without stuffing
- (4) Semi - processed foods including:
- (4.1) Noodles, sheets of rice noodle, wheat noodles, rice vermicelli and mung bean vermicelli;
- (4.2) Boiled rice and rice porridge
- (5) Chilled and frozen ready-to-eat meals
- (6) Beverages
- (6.1) Beverages which are produced from or contain fruits, edible plants or vegetables whether or not the carbon dioxide or oxygen gas is dissolved, except dried herbal tea drinks;
- (6.2) Beverages which are produced from or contain other constituents which are not fruits, edible plants or vegetables, whether or not the carbon dioxide or oxygen gas is dissolved;
- (6.3) Beverages according to (6.1) or (6.2) in dry form
- (7) Ready-to-drink tea in liquid or dry form
- (8) Ready-to-drink coffee in liquid or dry form
- (9) Flavoured milk
- (10) Fermented milk
- (11) Other milk products
- (12) Soy bean beverages
- (13) Ready-to-eat ice cream
Refer to the WTO notification for more information.