Thailand draw up the draft of “Feeding Bottle and Liquid Milk Container for Infa

Recently, Thailand Food and Drug Administration issued the Draft Ministry of Public Health Notificationen titled "Feeding Bottle and Liquid Milk Container for Infants and Young Children”.

The draft MOPH Notification proposes to revise the measure pertaining to Feeding Bottle as follows:

(1)This draft MOPH notification shall apply to

·feeding bottles and its components (protective cover, feeding teat, locking ring and sealing disc)

·liquid milk containers for infants and young children (for both repeated use containers and single use containers)

(2)Prescribe permitted list of materials which are used to make feeding bottles and liquid milk containers for infants and young children.

(3)Prescribe the general requirements for feeding bottles and its components as well as liquid milk containers for infants and young children.

(4)Prescribe the specific requirements on substances for materials which are used to make feeding bottles and its components as well as liquid milk containers for infants and young children.

(5)Feeding bottles, that are authorized to be sold prior to the effective date of this notification, are allowed to be sold not exceeding one year as from the effective date of this notification.

(6)This MOPH notification will be enforced 180 days after the notification being announced in the Thai royal Gazette. Now the draft is under consultation.