The Roles and Responsibilities of Thai FDA

The Roles of Thai FDA

The main role of Thai FDA is to protect consumers' health through ensuring safety, quality and efficacy of consumable products within its remit. These include: foods, drugs, psychotropic substances, narcotics, medical devices, volatile substances, cosmetics and hazardous substances available in the country. This has to be implemented in accordance with the national legislation and international agreements as follows:

1.  Drug Act, B.E. 2510 (1967) and Amendment No. 2 (1975), No. 3 (1979), No. 4 (1985) and No. 5 (1987),

2.  Psychotropic Substance Act B.E. 2518 (1975) and Amendment No. 2 (1985), No. 3 (1992) and No. 4 (2000)

3.  Food Act, B.E. 2522 (1979)

4.  Narcotic Act, B.E. 2522 (1979) and Amendment No. 2 (1985), No. 3 (1987) and No. 4 (2000)

5. The Emergency Decree on Prevention of Abuse of Volatile Substances, B.E. 2533 (1990) and Amendment No. 2 (2000)

6. Hazardous Substance Act, B.E. 2535 (1992)

7. Medical Device Act, B.E. 2551 (2008)

8. Cosmetic Act, B.E. 2558 (2015)

9. The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961, commentary on the protocol amended in Geneva on March 25, 1972

10. The International Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971

11. The International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitute, 1981

12. The United Nation Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988.

By law, certain important issues are decided by committees, whose members, all experts in their fields, are appointed by the Minister of Public Health. Currently, there are six committees: Drugs, Foods, Cosmetics, Narcotics, Psychotropic Substances and Medical Devices.

There are two committees whose members are appointed by the other ministries. They are the Committee on the Prevention of Abuse of Volatile Substances appointed by two ministers (Industry and Public Health), and the Hazardous Substance Committee appointed by three ministers (Public Health, Industry and Agriculture).

At the national level, the Cabinet appoints three committees: the National Drug Committee, the National Food Committee and the National Chemical Safety Committee. The national committees mainly assign policies, developmental issues and collaborative activities with other agencies to facilitate the implementation of the food, drug and chemical safety program as well as the control system.

In relation to cooperation in terms of research and development, the FDA is continually supportive of such endeavors, and some research projects are partly or wholly funded by the agency.

We shall regard and make your expectation and their requirement to be met together.  We understand and shall provide the experienced person to consult and guide until you shall obtain the FDA certificates for your business.

However, the application of Thai FDA certificates may relate to compliance of legislative regulations and requirements under related ACTs or Laws; e.g., Customs, Industry, Commercial Media (T.V. and social media) etc.