Draft Ministry of Public Health Notification (MOPH), No. ... B.E. ..., entitled "Food Containing Pesticide Residues (No. 2)"

For consumer protection, the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) is proposing to revise the MOPH notification concerning the maximum residue level of pesticides in food through a risk-based framework focused on either short-term (acute) or long-term (chronic) exposures using Thai food consumption data and field trial data. The main elements of the draft notification are as follows:
1. The following Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) are added to the annex 2 of the notification of the Ministry of Public Health, No. 387 (B.E. 2560) (2017), Title: Food Containing Pesticide Residues, issued on 18 August 2017, as follows:
   Pesticide                                     Commodity  Carbosulfan                                 Mangosteen  Carbosulfan                                 Mangosteen  Dithiocarbamates                        Longan  Imidacloprid                                Mangosteen  Dinotefuran                                 Mango
2. This draft notification shall come into force after the date of its publication in the Government Gazette.