SUBTITLE: An Existing Chemicals Inventory and Thai Way of New Chemical Management Mechanism

Mr. Hashimoto, President of HS-TECH ENGINEERING and its staffs are going to contribute a paper to a Japanese major chemical management journal, regarding the current status on Industrial Chemicals Regulation in Thailand. The Journal will be published in the mid of November.

Outlines of the contents were;

Chapter-1. Outlines of Existing Chemicals Inventory, operated by DIW

v  11,471 substances were listed on the data base.

v  Two new concepts,

1) chemical management code was introduced.

2) Low Concerned Chemicals(LCC), General Chemicals (GC), Chemicals of Concerned and High Concerned Chemicals (CHC).

v  Around 75 % of chemicals are still under data validation or data collection

Chapter-2. Chemicals Risk Management Approach for Existing Chemicals

v  Flow Chart on Risk Management Approach

Chapter-3. Development on the New Chemicals Management Mechanism

v  Thai Way of Chemical Risk Evaluation

v  Procedures on identification of Priority Substances and Toxicity Substances

v  Establish New Chemicals Management Mechanism for LCC, GC, CoC and CHC

Chapter-4. Challenges for players with whom get involved

v  Cope with GC and LCC

v  Learn Thai Way of Chemical Evaluation Methods, developed by Thai local university

Chaptet-5. Master Plan on Overall Industrial Chemicals Regulation Until 2026

Mr. Hashimoto, President of HS-TECH ENGINEERING will be invited as speaker for Fukuoka Asia Business Center, a part of　Fukuoka Provincial Government, Japan. He is going to explain tips on business way in Thailand based on Thai culture.

The webinar will be held from 17:00 to 18:00 (Japan Standard Time) on September 29th.

You are able to apply the webinar from the website at:

https://www.f-abc.org/event/seminar174/?instance_id=168

Note that language is Japanese.

On June 22nd, The Department of Industrial Works (DIW), released

a New Inventory Data Base.  The Data Base includes 11,474 substances.

So the Preliminary Data Base had already repealed.

DIW introduced new criteria for General Chemicals (GC), Low Concerned

Chemicals (LCC), Chemicals of Concerned (CoC) and Chemicals of High Concerned (CHC)

to prepare Priority Chemicals List and Toxicity[1]  Chemicals List for further stricter

management of hazardous chemicals.

It is noted that the Data Base is still under development by only DIW.

[1] Chemical risk management methods, developed by Thai people will be used

to identify toxic substances from The Priority List including LCC or CoC or CHC.

We saw various stakeholders in paraquat and its related substances regulation in Thailand. You can download the timeline of the activities since 2016.

june 25 2020 paraquat rev_0001.pdf (3.42MB)

An article of THE THAI HEALTH 2019, entitled ‘The prolonged effort to ban paraquat in Thailand: The Toxic Substance Board Won’t Act’ showed in depth of the confusing history of paraquats.

Source: https://www.hiso.or.th/hiso/picture/reportHealth/ThaiHealth2019/eng2019_15.pdf

CONTENTS:

v  Pesticide use situation in Thailand

v  Paraquat is banned in more than 50 countries

v  The beginning of the battle to ban paraquat in Thailand

v  Various organizations unite to support the ban of paraquat

v  The Hazardous Substances Committee  resisting against banning paraquat

v  The Ombudsman called for the ban of Paraquat within one year, but Hazardous Substances Commission  continues to prolong its use

v  Conclusion

Please visit the web site at:

https://www.hiso.or.th/hiso/picture/reportHealth/ThaiHealth2019/eng2019_15.pdf