Thailand’s Response Policy and Measure on Food Fraud in The World Market During the Year 2003-2022

Abstract

The underlying functions of the state, such as to providing public services for their citizen and to protect citizen’s life and wellbeing were the fundamental accountability of the state. State normally issues policies and measures to control and minimize food hazard. Now a day, states all over the world has a new challenge with hazardous food that were intentionally mixed with uneatable substances in it, such as melamine or other toxic chemicals and sale as normal food. The only reason is to make more profit for the unscrupulous producers. The result of food fraud phenomena always ends up with the undermining health of the consumers around the world. The purposes of this research are to study functions of the states internationally, how they counteracted with food fraud incidents and also to find the role and obstacles that Thailand’s state agencies are facing. In conclusion, this research has shown the results that, all nation states had the same protocols in counteract with food fraud incidents which are to protect, terminate, surveillance and also initiate the incident response plan in case of the outbreak of food fraud that disguised and infiltrated into the world market, unpredictably off guard. And also found the obstacles for running the operation in counteract with food fraud issues that Thailand’s state agencies have in common, which are the limitation of resources such as insufficient number of skilled personal, inadequate of budget, lack of test kits for laboratory test.