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STANDARDS & REGULATIONS

Food and Agricultural Product

Exports Guidelines to China

Currently, many importing countries, including China, have strict control of imported food and agricultural
products to ensure consumers’ safety, including domestic plant and animal safety. Importing agricultural
and food products to China is under The General Administration of Customs (GACC). It has requirements,
regulations, and trade agreements to secure high-risk goods before importing. Therefore, the Thai government
must control food product standards according to the mutual agreement and understanding with China,
which can be classified as follows:

Live Fishery Products Export In the case of live marine shrimp,
Aquatic products from Thailand are permitted to enter China, divided into four categories: especially the black tiger prawns, which live
edible aquatic animals for consumption, ornamental aquatic animals, aquatic animals for in the deep seas away from the coast and
breeding or farming, and aquatic products. Before exporting aquatic products, the are normally found in the Gulf of Thailand and
entrepreneur or producer must be completely certified by the Department of Fisheries and the Andaman Sea was inspected rigorously.
GACC. The list of species of edible aquatic animals was allowed to import according to the The black tiger prawns must come from a
Chinese customs declaration as shown in Table 1, with the following requirements: farm registered by the Department of
Fisheries, and these farms were certified GAP
ตารางที่่� 1 สััตว์์น้ำำ��มีีชีีว์ิตเพื่่�อก�รบริโภคของไทยที�ประเทศจีีน้ำอน้ำุญ�ตให้้น้ำำ�เข้� or CoC or GAP TAS 7401 or BAP or ASC
Table 1 The list of edible aquatic animals allowed to enter China standard. The results of the IHHNV (Infectious
กลุ่่�มสััตว์์น้ำำ�� ผลุ่ผลุ่ิตท�งก�รเกษตร Hypodermal and Hematopoietic Necrosis
Edible aquatic animals Species Virus) test in live shrimp must be reported in
all health certificates. In addition, the shrimp
กุ้้�ง / Crustaceans กุ้้�งขาว กุ้้�งมัังกุ้ร กุ้้�งกุ้้ลาดำำา / Litopenaeus, Panulirus, Penaeus pathogens must be monitored every six
หอย / Mollusca หอยลาย หอยหวาน หอยแครง / Paphia, Babylonia, Tegillarca months.
สััตว์เล้�อยคลาน / Reptiles ตะพาบ / Pelodiscus
ปลา / Fishes ปลาไหล ปลาเกุ้๋า ปลากุ้ะพงขาว ปลาบ่� / Anago, Epinephelus, Lates, Oxyeleotris Chilled & Frozen Fishery Products
Export
1. Farm, hatchery, and packing house were listed as approved by the Department of Most of the fishery products exported are in
Fisheries. the form of frozen and chilled food, which
2. The health certificate must be available issued by the approved Department of Fisheries. includes various types such as chilled
The exporter can request a certificate from three sources: Phuket International Airport aquatic Scomber australasicus, chilled Thunnus
checkpoint, Suvarnabhumi Airport animal quarantine station, and the aquatic animal albacares, chilled Sepiida, chilled Porphyra,
checkpoint at Don Mueang Airport. frozen Trichiurus lepturus, frozen Dasyatis
akajei, frozen Portunus trituberculatus, and

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