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Notification No.

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Date of Notification

Final Date for Comments

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Title

Notification of the Ministry of Public Health (No…), B.E.2543(2000) Tea (4 pages, available in Thai language)

Objective

Product Covered

HS Chapter 0902, ICS: 67.140.10 (Tea)

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HSCODE

0902 - Tea, whether or not flavoured

ICSCODE

67.140.10 - Tea

Keywords

Food standards

Specific Regions

Description

The Notification of the Ministry of Public Health (No.58) B.E.2524(1981) Tea dated 29 May B.E.2524(1981) is withdrawn. Good Manufacturing Practice shall be applied for the production of tea.  In addition, this ministerial notification prescribes the following items:  (1)	Classification of tea: 	-	Tea; 	-	Instant tea; 	-	Ready-to-drink tea (liquid and powder type).  (2)	Quality or standards, i.e. humidity, total ash, water soluble ash, hot water extract, content of caffeine, free from toxic microorganisms, toxin from microorganisms in the content which may be harmful to health.  (3)	Permissible limits of preservative agents, i.e. sulphur dioxide not exceeding 70 mg/1 kg of ready-to-drink tea, benzoic acid or zorbic acid or their salts not exceeding 200 mg/1 kg of ready-to-drink tea.  (4)	Permissible limits of contaminants, i.e. arsenic, lead, copper, zinc, iron, tin and sulphur dioxide not exceeding 0.2, 0.5, 5, 5, 15, 250 and 10 mg/1 kg of ready-to-drink tea respectively.  (5)	Containers. (6)	Labelling.  Licenses for food registration or food labelling issued prior to the enforcement of this ministerial notification will be valid for 2 years.  Producers or importers who received licenses prior to the enforcement of this ministerial notification must apply for licenses within one year after this ministerial notification comes into force.  Upon submitting the application, the former labels can still be valid for 2 years.

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