Thailand Partnership: GHS Capacity Building

Ministry of Public Health Food and Drug Administration

Chemical Safety Section Thailand National Focal Point for IFCS

Thailand

• Area 513,115 sq km

• Population 63 million

• GDP Growth 6.9%

• Contribution by economic sector

Agriculture : Industry : Service

1 : 3 : 6

(as of 2003)

Industrial sector

4415

4982

4716

3975397637933452 2956

25732244

1951

1367

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

Year

Amou

nt (1

000

Ton)

Imported

Exported

Source: MOC

Importing for downstream production

New initiative :

• Green Production

• Management of high-risk industrial chemicals

• SME promotion

Industrial Chemicals

Agricultural sector

33

56

73

10

70

5351

10121097

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

Year

Am

ount

(100

0 To

n)

Imported

Exported

Source: MOC

New Initiative:

• Strict control of highly toxic pesticides

• Food Safety Policy

• Quality Produce

Pesticides Importing for production

and use

Consumer sector

186

124

149

138

112

79

66

120

9286

76

50

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

200

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

Year

Am

ount

(100

0 To

n)

Exported

Imported

Source: MOC

Consumer Products Import < Export

* Mainly producin g household/person al products for dom

estic use and export

New Initiative:

• Public Education, e.g. Little FDA

• Consumer Right

• Public Empowerment

Source: MOT

Transport sector

Cargo Transported Domestic Shipment : Land > Inland water/ Sea > Air

International Shipment:

Sea > Land > Air

New Initiative:

• Implementation of Orange Book

• Capacity Building for Emergency Response

0

100000

200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Amoun

t (Kilo

tons)

Country Inbound Country OutboundDomestic

Import Storage Productn/Package

TransportStorageIndustry Agricultur

e

Consumer

Environment/Health

Locallymade Waste

storage

Transport Treatment

Recycle

Disposal

Transport

Domestic

Export

Waste storage

Distributn

Use

In case of no treatment

Note : Yellow = Acute , Local adverse effect

Red = Chronic , Widespread adverse effect

Life Cycle of Chemicals

• New Cross-cutting Initiative

• Bridging Gaps in Chemical management across sectors

• Promoting partnership

Thailand involvement in UNITAR/ILO GHS Capacity Building Project

Strategic Capacity Building

& Sectoral Implementation plan

GHS

- On going:

Situation & Gap analysis , Comprehensibility Testing

GHS

Industry AgricultureTransport Consumer

Sectors:

M of IndustryDIW

M of Transport M of Agric & CoopDOA

M of Public HealthFDA

• Existing Legislation and Management Scheme- Complicated , control by various ministries- No single legislation covers all chemicals

• Overlapping in authorities of related laws

• Loopholes of uncontrolled chemicals, products, and outlets , e.g. fireworks, new chemicals, certain consumer / agricultural products

Lessons learned

Lessons learned (continued)

• Partnership development (Multi- sectoral, public - business - civil society)

• Different levels of awareness and knowledge

Public , Workers, Business, Authorities

• Complex nature of public consumption and interest

Conventional approach Vs. Advertisement

Lessons learned (continued)

• Capacity of business, esp. SME

• Technical difficulty of classification, esp. Mixtures/ Products

• Implementation Costs Burden of Price

• Need for Sustainability of GHS movement