Thailand Animal Feed Quality Control Act B.E. 2558 (2015) — Pet Food as Registered Feed (per WOAH regional report)

Thailand Animal Feed Control Act B.E. 2558 (2015) — Pet Food as a Specifically-Controlled Feed Type

Primary source: the Department of Livestock Development (DLD) official English translation of the Animal Feed Control Act, B.E. 2558 (2015), obtained 2026-07-30 from legal.dld.go.th (the earlier aqi.dld.go.th endpoint returned HTTP 403). Thailand administers pet food under this Act: pet food is a category of *specifically controlled animal feed* requiring registration/licensing.

Framework (verified C1 substrings of the DLD Act)

• The Act is cited as the Animal Feed Control Act, B.E. 2558 (2015) (s.1).
• animal feed having an impact on the economy and society, or posing a danger to animals, or generally affecting consumers who consume meat — and the production of specifically controlled animal feed offered for sale or the import of such feed for the purpose of selling shall be registered as prescribed in the Notifications issued by the Minister with the advice of the Committee on Animal Feed Control (s.4 definition).
• includes pictures, markings or any text that is displayed on a container of animal feed (s.4 definition).
• The Minister, with the Committee's advice, prescribes the name, type, category, characteristics, quality or standard of specifically controlled animal feed, including the rules, procedures and conditions for production for sale, import for the purpose of selling or sale of such specifically controlled animal feed (s.6(1)), and the name, type, category, characteristics or quality of substances that are prohibited from being mixed into animal feed (s.6(4)).
• Licensing: Any person who intends to produce for sale or import for the purpose of selling specifically controlled animal feed under section 6 (1) shall submit an application for a licence (s.15).
• Labeling duty: a licensed producer must provide labels for specifically controlled animal feed; their layout and text of such labels shall be in accordance with the rules, procedures and conditions prescribed and notified by the Minister (s.27(4)). This is the statutory basis for Thailand's pet-food labeling rules (detailed in the Minister's Notification under s.6).

Pet-food category enumeration (per Minister's Notification under s.6(1); reproduced by WOAH)

The Act establishes the *specifically controlled animal feed* category; the Minister's Notification designates pet-food types, which the WOAH regional report reproduces as: Pet Food, Complete pet food, Complementary pet food, Therapeutic pet food, and Supplement for Pet — all registered/specifically-controlled feed types. (This enumeration is from the implementing Notification, not the Act text itself; retained from the WOAH reproduction as secondary sourcing.)

Why this matters

This upgrades the prior WOAH-reproduction topic to first-hand DLD primary text (the aqi.dld.go.th 403 that forced needs_review: true is resolved via the alternate legal.dld.go.th official English PDF). Pet food in Thailand is therefore a licensed/registered feed type under DLD, with labeling governed by s.6/s.27.