Legal measures on sanitary food transportation

Name: Sutapat Vithayarungruangsri

LCSH: Food -- Transportation -- Law and legislation -- Thailand

LCSH: Food contamination -- Thailand

LCSH: Food law and legislation -- Thailand

LCSH: Transportation -- Law and legislation -- Thailand

Abstract: This thesis aims to focus on the subject of the control of sanitary food transportation by land, both road and rail, which transportation is one process of food chain, and needed to be governed in order to save the quality of food products for the consumers’ benefits, other than the benefits of the enterprises. Food transportation shall include catering or ready-to-eat food delivery by road vehicles. Thailand has not yet regulated specific law respecting the issue. Although we have ministerial regulations to control the standard of some food products, and preventive measures for food quality control, there is none of regulations specifies the general rules of sanitary food transportation, liabilities of persons engaged in food transportation, and also other rules that the food transport business should follow, e.g. the temperature control, the hygiene control, and the control of vehicles used in food transportation. Due to the fact that food is one of the four significant factors of life, it is greatly important that the food is safe when we consume. Many fresh foods are deemed perishable foods or foods that easily spoiled when being kept in improper circumstance. Therefore, food safety control is necessary, and transportation is one step of the food chain that takes an important role since the food comes out from the slaughterhouse, to the manufacturers, then comes to the distributors, to the markets, or to the restaurants, and finally on our plates. The consumers will never know whether the food they eat is safe along the way, the regulations for controlling the transportation of food is necessary therefor. The applicable laws for the damage arising from food transportation are same as other consumer’s cases ; in section 4 (3) of Consumer Protection Act B.E. 2522 which provides the consumers’ right protection, states that the consumer shall receive safety while using the products or services. In addition, section 5 of Liability for Damages arising from Unsafe Products Act B.E. 2551 state that the practitioners or operators must be jointly liable to the injured party for the damage caused by unsafe products, which has been sold to the consumer, whether the damage has been caused by willful act or negligence of the operator or not. And, section 420 of Civil and Commercial Code specifies the rights of the injured persons that they shall be compensated for the damage they got. In this thesis, the author presents and compares the regulations of United States, United Kingdom, and Australia concerning sanitation control during food transport in order to apply with problems in Thailand. Most of them empower the state agency which is in charge of people’s health ; the Ministry of Public Health. Moreover, The author suggests the Ministry of Public Health takes the responsibilities on the new regulations since it is the state agency which is accountable for people’s health. Consequently, it shall reduce the problems of food contamination and food spoilage during transport, and will benifit for the consumer’s protection

Thammasat University. Thammasat University Library

Address: BANGKOK

Email: preserv@tu.ac.th

Name: Amnat Wongbandit

Role: advisor

Created: 2014

Modified: 2021-12-20

Issued: 2021-12-20

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DOI: 10.14457/TU.the.2014.559

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DegreeName: Master of Laws

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: Business Laws

Grantor: Thammasat University

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