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Code of Practice on Inspection and Receiving of Durians for Collecting House: The business operator shall have measures in place to inspect the maturity of durian fruits by examining the evidence of production source management, inspecting the external characteristics of every single fruit, and conducting random determination of dry matter content. These practices are to ensure that the received durians are mature in accordance with the specified standards.

Pig raising has become increasingly popular among Thai farmers across all regions, either for household consumption or for commercial purposes. The enhancement of production standards at the farm level helps assure consumers of product safety, enables efficient prevention and control of significant epidemics, and strengthens the capacity for sustainable production and trade of pig products in Thailand. Therefore, the Agricultural Standards Committee has considered and approved the establishment of the Thai Agricultural Standard on Good Agricultural Practices for Pig Farm.

Egg production in Thailand is a fundamental basis of both the economy and nutrition. Ensuring the quality and safety of products is therefore of utmost importance. The standard that layer farms should give priority to is the Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), which provides comprehensive guidelines to obtain safe, high-quality eggs suitable for consumption.

A milk collection center serves as a point of receiving raw milk from farms, where the milk is cooled prior to delivery to processing plants. This step is critical to ensuring both the quality and safety of milk. Failure to comply with hygienic practices may result in microbial contamination, which can lead to rejection of the milk and consequently affect farmers’ income. Therefore, good practices for milk collection centers are necessary in order to maintain the quality and safety of raw milk.

Since the culture of Pacific white shrimp in Thailand has encountered disease problems, particularly Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease (AHPND) in Pacific white shrimp juveniles, which has caused severe losses to shrimp farmers, it is therefore necessary to control the hatchery production of Pacific white shrimp in order to prevent disease transmission from broodstock to shrimp larvae and to control the spread of disease within the hatchery.