New regulations to protect consumers

By The Nation

 

 

AMONG THE Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new measures to ensure the safety and quality of health and food supplements is a public health ministry regulation to be put in effect next month.

 

Under the regulation, FDA officials will inspect the factory before an FDA registration number could be issued for its cosmetic products – which were normally considered low-risk as they are for external use – FDA secretary-general Dr Wanchai Satayawutthipong said yesterday.

 

This was an extra step to the existing requirement – the submission of the cosmetic product’s formula, ingredients and the factory address – required for an FDA hallmark application.

 

The factory inspection is already a requirement for an FDA hallmark application for a food supplement.

 

In future, a list of FDA-approved factories would be drawn up and health products could be manufactured at these registered places only, he said.

 

The authority will also address the forging of the FDA hallmark – which, along with the FDA-approved registration number, is what consumers look for to ensure a product’s safety. Wanchai said the logo would be modified to make it more difficult to fake.

 

Celebrities providing “product review” advertisements for a cosmetic product or food supplement would be liable for a jail term – not just a fine – if the product is found to have caused a users’ death, he said. The FDA would also ask the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission to scrap inappropriate product advertisements.

 

In future, the FDA would blacklist those people who applied for FDA approval but their product quality or safety was deemed substandard, illegal or not as claimed. This would avoid repeat offences, he said. Currently the FDA can just prohibit the use of a product formula, not a person.

 

More than 700,000 cosmetic products and 30,000 food supplement products have been registered with the Thai FDA.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30344331

 

 

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Sounds reasonable but my guess this is more bluster with little to no chance in follow up or enforcement. It might be a great way to elecite "brown envelopes" however.  Talk seems constant re: plans to.... suggest... will ..... but enforcement/ follow through is usually not evident. As an example look at all the proposals re: education/road carnage/corruption etc. So it's difficult to take seriously much of what is said or suggested will transpire in the future. Talk is easy; action requires effort. 

A one off inspection is not enough whereby the owners/operators

of said factory can just put on a show of adhering to the FDA regulations

and as soon as they gone, thing will revert back to manufacturing sub

standard and dengerouge food and consumer products,

a periodically surprise visit is called for to prevent anyone from ingaging

in putting the public in periles...

FDA hallmark, paraquot seal of approval, yep, you're good to go.

These regulations are so very welcome.

Next, I hope new measures to be introduced (and reinforced)

to ensure the freshness, cleanliness, safety and quality

of Thai fresh markets products nationwide.

There is no real oversight of any regulations, so it’s all pointless


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2 hours ago, webfact said:

New regulations to protect consumers

And the (FDA)s speaker is thinking someone can believe what he's saying. 

They would need to add a self check to that. 

Any officer giving a product fda approval that causes death or serious injury will be liable to double the penalty of the manufacturer of the product. 

That should make them think twice about those brown envelopes. 

How can this work in a land of corrupt and incompetent people?

5 minutes ago, thhMan said:

How can this work in a land of corrupt and incompetent people?

I strongly suggest you remind yourself of footnote at the bottom of your posts before you start making generalisations such as that!

1 hour ago, simoh1490 said:

FDA hallmark, paraquot seal of approval, yep, you're good to go.

Hmm maybe paraquat could be used for giving that "snail white" look? Nice lotion in handy spray bottle

1 minute ago, Emster23 said:

Hmm maybe paraquat could be used for giving that "snail white" look? Nice lotion in handy spray bottle

Perhaps market it as, "early inheritance", the perfect gift for mothers day.

18 minutes ago, greenchair said:

They would need to add a self check to that. 

Any officer giving a product fda approval that causes death or serious injury will be liable to double the penalty of the manufacturer of the product. 

That should make them think twice about those brown envelopes. 

Yes a bit more responsibility and punishment in own ranks would help a lot.. good idea too bad it won't happen.

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

A one off inspection is not enough whereby the owners/operators

of said factory can just put on a show of adhering to the FDA regulations

and as soon as they gone, thing will revert back to manufacturing sub

standard and dengerouge food and consumer products,

a periodically surprise visit is called for to prevent anyone from ingaging

in putting the public in periles...

 

Yes there should be a team which does random inspections and the team members should not know where they are going until they arrive there, and every six months there should be an outside group analysing what establishments have been randomly inspected to ensure broad overall inspections by location, by owner, by product type.

 

Until something like this is done nothing will change.

 

 

 

25 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

Yes there should be a team which does random inspections and the team members should not know where they are going until they arrive there, and every six months there should be an outside group analysing what establishments have been randomly inspected to ensure broad overall inspections by location, by owner, by product type.

 

Until something like this is done nothing will change.

 

 

 

These random inspections have to come from a neutral third party otherwise where is the point? German companies regularity test anything coming from Asia etc. to ensure no banned chemicals were used. 

6 hours ago, webfact said:

This was an extra step to the existing requirement – the submission of the cosmetic product’s formula, ingredients and the factory address – required for an FDA hallmark application.

That's going to go over like a lead balloon.  The companies will cite 'trade secrets' and no doubt will lobby MPs and 'leaders' to pressure the FDA to ditch the idea.

Edited May 1, 20188 yr by connda

51 minutes ago, connda said:

That's going to go over like a lead balloon.  The companies will cite 'trade secrets' and no doubt will lobby MPs and 'leaders' to pressure the FDA to ditch the idea.

They only have to get the existing 700,000 for a start & all those currently not registered will now have been sufficiently frightened to come forward.

Taking innocent people who were hired for marketing to court - check.

 

Taking responsibility for not enforcing correct standards - huh?