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 Source: MOC Importing for downstream production New initiative : Green Production Management of high-risk industrial chemicals SME promotion Industrial Chemicals

Agricultural sector Source: MOC New Initiative: Strict control of highly toxic pesticides Food Safety Policy Quality Produce Pesticides Importing for production and use

Consumer sector Source: MOC Consumer Products Import < Export * Mainly producing household/personal products for domestic 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

ImportStorage Product n / Package Transport Storage IndustryAgriculture Consumer Environment /Health Locally made Waste storage Transport Treatment Recycle Disposal Transport Domestic Export Waste storage Distribut n 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 IndustryAgricultureTransportConsumer Sectors: M of Industry DIW M of TransportM of Agric & Coop DOA M of Public Health FDA

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