The Thai government should out more resources into bringing Thailand’s food safety up to international standards, according to a leading food standards specialist quoted by the Business Day newspaper.
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“Consumers are actually more demanding than the government,” said Somchai Charnnarongkul, deputy secretary general of the National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards at a Bangkok seminar on Thursday.
Thailand needed to pay attention to international standards of food safety. The UK Traceability Mission, supported by the International Agriculture and Technology Center (IATC), had held a meeting with the National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS) to exchange ideas and information, the paper said.
The main topic was traceability. Somchai said that at present, Thailand only had “half a system”, meaning most records were still done manually instead of being stored in an electronic database. Systems were based on government regulations instead of consumers’ demands, unlike in Europe.
Somchai added that Thais generally misunderstood how detail-oriented traceability is. “Thais usually care only about disease control”, Somchai said. “For example, if they are sure that their food did not come from a diseased animal, they usually won’t ask about where the animal feed came from.”
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