Thailand’s Food and Drug Administration News on January 31: The Bureau reiterated the regulations on food advertising (including promotion during live broadcast on the platform). Food advertisements must be applied for through the electronic submission system (the electronic submission system is approved within 8 working days) and approved by the bureau.

Supattra, deputy secretary-general of the bureau, said that from the statistics of complaints received in the past six years, more than 60% are complaint product advertisements, of which dietary supplements and coffee are the most involved products. Consumers are advised to pay attention to the information that should have a number "ฆอ." in the food advertisement, otherwise they can call the complaint hotline to make a complaint. Offenders will be punished by law. 

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Li Ning, deputy director of the National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, said at a press conference on the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism on 31 January that some foods have recently been tested positive for the COVID-19 nucleic acid, which has attracted widespread attention from the society. The COVID-19 nucleic acid test is mainly for nucleic acid fragments of the virus. Whether it is a live virus or a dead virus, it may be positive for nucleic acid. Therefore, a positive nucleic acid for food does not mean that it is infectious. The positive nucleic acid test of these foods can only indicate that it has been contaminated by the COVID-19. So far, there have been no cases of consumers contracting the COVID-19 through purchasing and processing food.

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On February 1, the General Administration of Customs and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued a notice on preventing the importation of Sri Lankan Bovine Lumpy Skin Disease into China, which mainly prohibits the direct or indirect importation of beef and related products from Sri Lanka. It is prohibited to send or carry beef and their products from Sri Lanka into the country. once found, it will be returned or destroyed.

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The Official Journal of the European Union issued Regulation (EU) No. 2020/1633 on November 5, 2020 , amending (EC) No. 396/2005 Implementation Regulation (Regulations on Maximum Residue Limits of Pesticides in Food ). Part of the content of this revision is to amend or newly increase the maximum residue limits of 10 pesticides such as azinphos-methyl in some foods. This regulation will take effect 20 days after the publication of the communique.

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