Supplement scare prompts inspection of all factories

By Anan Wijitpracha, 
Pongsathat Rujiphuttanyaphat 
The Nation

 

 

All factories manufacturing dietary supplements and cosmetics will be inspected over the next three months, permanent secretary for public health Jessada Chokdamrongsuk announced on Monday.

 

Jessada was leading an inspection of the Pathawin Co cosmetics plant in Phatum Thani’s Sam Khok district, along with the province’s public health chief Nraong Tangtrongpairoj and Wanchai Satayawutthipong, secretary-general of the Food and Drug Administration.

 

The inspection, which follows a scare over potentially deadly products on the market, was part of new proactive measures to protect consumers, Jessada said. 

 

Operations at the Pathawin plant were found to be up to standard and abiding by 2018 manufacturing and import regulations, he added. 

 

Jessada urged all plant operators to observe the new regulation or else face their FDA licence being revoked and punishment of up to one year in prison and fines of up to Bt100,000. The regulation stipulates that new cosmetic-manufacturing plants must be inspected by officials from the FDA or a provincial public health office within 15 days of registering for a licence, Jessada said. 

 

Wanchai said all the country’s 1,000 cosmetics and supplements plants should be inspected within three months to ensure manufacturers were following regulations. 

 

He also advised business operators wishing to cancel the manufacture or importation of such products to notify the FDA of their move, which they could do at www.thaifda.org/econsult. 

 

He warned that business operators found to be making or importing products not covered by their FDA registration would also face legal action.Authorities are clamping down on cosmetic and food supplement products following controversy surrounding the well-known Magic Skin brand and Lyn dieting pills. The latter were allegedly found to be laced with sibutramine, an appetite suppressant linked with serious heart problems and strokes.

 

Sibutramine was upgraded as a Schedule I psychoactive substance [with all usage prohibited, imposing harsher penalties on manufacturers and sellers of items containing this substance] on May 24, after Lyn pills were linked to the deaths of four dieters.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30346963

 

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"The inspection, which follows a scare over potentially deadly products on the market, was part of new proactive measures to protect consumers"

 

Thai proactive measures take place after the event

 

 

41 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

All factories manufacturing dietary supplements and cosmetics will be inspected over the next three months

They can have as many inspections as they like. It won't change anything. Corruption within the civil service is a fact of life! Everyone has to live with it or work around it.

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Wanchai said all the country’s 1,000 cosmetics and supplements plants should be inspected within three months to ensure manufacturers were following regulations. 

 

I hope this doesn't delay delivery of my order for those penis enlargement pills. I have plans for the weekend.

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

All factories manufacturing dietary supplements and cosmetics will be inspected over the next three months

 

"Thanks for the heads-up", said the cosmetics & dietary supplements manufacturing sector.  

typical in Thailand when Standards suddenly appear after the fact, the truth is that it costs money to proactively enforce standards and there is no willingness to spend it, just like everything else - someone has to die to get a reaction but then it is too late and very quickly forgotten about as the funds resume a steady flow into official pockets, even Monks and temples are ripping off the Thai people,

 

not sure how the global corruption index is worked out but I get the feeling it is not an exact science, Thailand has got to be in the top 10 most corrupt  countries in the world ………….. absolutely everything in this country is corrupt …………...everything

 

 

 

 

Looks like the guy with the pink hair cover in the corner is taking a whiz?....