Drugs Act, B.E. 2510.

This Act, consisting of 142 sections divided into 14 Chapters, provides for the requirements to produce, use and trade in drugs.
There shall be a Committee called the “Drug Committee” consisting of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Health as Chairperson. The Committee shall have the duty to submit recommendations and opinions on: (1) the licensing of the production or sale of drugs, or importation or order of drugs into the Kingdom, and the registration of drug formulas; (2) the suspension, revocation of a licence or revocation of register of drug formulas; (3) the prescription of the rules, procedures and conditions concerning the production or sale of drugs, importation or order of drugs into the Kingdom, importation of drugs as sample for examination, and the inspection of the premises of production or sale of drugs, importation or order into the Kingdom and storage of drugs; etc.
No person shall produce or sell a modern or traditional drug or import or order a modern drug into Thalalnd, unless he or she has obtained a licence from the licensing authority. A licensee to produce or import or order drugs, who wishes to produce, or import or order into the Kingdom of modern drugs or traditional drugs, is required first to apply to the competent official for registration of the formulas thereof. Section 91 provides for the powers of a competent official, including : (1) to inspect for the compliance with this act; (2) to take reasonable quantities of drugs as samples for testing or analysis; etc. The Act further provides for duties of licensees, duties of pharmacists, first class practitioners of modern arts of healing in the branch of medicine, dentistry, midwifery of nursing, or veterinary practitioners, labeling and packing, the advertisement for the sale of drugs, offences and penalties, etc.