INFORMATION
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So the Preliminary Data Base had already repealed.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
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Date |
Activity |
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19 May 2020 |
Royal Thai Government Gazette Website; Published the announcement of the Ministry of Industry; Hazardous Substances List (No. 6) B.E. 2020 |
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23 May 2019 |
A key person voted that glyphosate should be canceled / removed from the type 4 substance and changed measure to limit use. |
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27 May 2020 |
Order of the Department of Agriculture (No. 750/2563); Implementation of Hazardous Substances type 4, responsible for the Department of Agriculture [http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2563/E/123/T_0028.PDF] |
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27 May 2020 |
Secretary-general of the Safe Farming Confederation, plaintiffs together with 11 people, filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Industry, including the Minister of Industry, the Hazardous Substance Committee and the Department of Agriculture. |
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1 June 2020 |
Ban on " Paraquat - chlorpyrifos" are on the list of hazardous substances, designated by Hazardous Substance Act, effective from 1st June 2020 [chlorpyrifos, chlorpyrifos-methyl, paraquat, paraquat dichloride, paraquat methosulfate are under the control of Department of Agriculture] |
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8 July 2020 |
A meeting of Draft of announced the Ministry of Public Health of food that have pesticide residue. A meeting on drafting of pesticide residues in food at the Ministry of Public Health. |
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14 June 2020 |
Minister of Agriculture and Cooperative counterattacks to groups that oppose to ban the 3 substance (Chlorpyrifos,Paraquat and glyphosate) |
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Until 30 June |
1.Farmers shall return said products to shop within 90 days (1 June – 29 August 2020). Violation of imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, a fine not exceeding one million baht. 2. Shop shall return said products to importer or manufacturer within 120 days (no later than September 28, 2020). 3. Manufacturers and importers Notify the quantity to the officer of the Bureau of Plant and Agricultural Material Control for collecting hazardous substance according to the form Wor Or. / Wor Kor. 5 within 270 days (Not later than 25 February 2021). |
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Until 18 July |
Thai- FDA is in the process of accepting opinions on (draft) announcements from the Ministry of Public Health (No.?) B.E. ... issued under the Food Act B.E.2522 regarding food contains pesticide residues (Issue 3) |