The TISI board gives a green light to food contact paper for cooking with heat. and electric vehicle batteries is a controlled product To protect the safety of the public, urge the TISI to prepare to announce the enforcement by the year 2024.
Mr. Suraphon Chamat, Deputy Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Industry As the chairman of the Industrial Product Standards Committee (TISI) or the TISI board, revealed after the meeting on April 27, 2023 that the TISI board had a resolution
I like the TISI to control the safety of food contact paper for cooking with heat. and batteries for electric vehicles is a controlled product to enhance the protection of public safety According to the policy of the Ministry of Industry, it also approves 16 other standards such as food waste grinders. industrial washing machine industrial lithium battery and batteries for forklifts or locomotives, etc.
Mr. Banchong Sukritha, secretary-general of the Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), said that there are currently 140 items that the TISI has announced as controlled products. as it relates to the safety of people's lives and property For food contact paper for cooking food with heat, such as paper used in hot air ovens, tea bags, coffee filters. baking paper in the oven, etc. This standard requires that the paper must be made from virgin pulp. or virgin pulp mixed with synthetic fibers that do not add color in the pulp Use it to filter hot liquids, heat food or cook food. At a temperature not exceeding 220 degrees Celsius, the standard has provisions for controlling the contamination of heavy metal substances that are harmful to health, such as lead, cadmium, chromium, mercury, etc. When the paper is heated, the contamination must not exceed the standard criteria. set and must not contain bleach and antimicrobial agents that is harmful to the body
for electric vehicle batteries The TISI will declare it as a controlled product. Covering batteries used to drive electric vehicles such as motorcycles, tuk-tuks, small tricycles, cars, pickup trucks, buses, small trucks. big truck Including batteries in hybrid vehicles, etc., except batteries made from lead-acid. Which has an important requirement that when driving, there must be no leakage of electrolyte. (chemicals contained in batteries that may catch fire) without cracking and no fire or explosion, etc.
The enforcement of the standard is in line with the EV product enforcement plan proposed to the National Electric Vehicle Policy Board (EV Board) to drive the production of internal combustion engine vehicles. which is a large group of cars in the country To be able to transition to the production of cars powered by electric power. As well as preparing to develop Thailand into the center of the electric vehicle manufacturing industry in the ASEAN region. It is expected that both standards will be enforced within 2024, the TISI secretary said
Source: Thai News Agency