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3. National Offices/Authorities and their responsibilities

and duties as related to traditional medicine

• Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine (DTAM),

Ministry of Public Health:
- Works as a core agency on T&CM and T&CM policy maker,
- Develops and carries out registration systems to protect the rights of the

country and individuals on TTM knowledge as related to TTM formulas and

TTM scriptures, treatises, or collections of TTM formulas,
- Develops Thai traditional digital knowledge library (TTDKL) to document
prior art of TTM,

- Establishes standards and supports technical information for TTM & TCM

service provision, herbal medicines and Nuad Thai,
- Develops T&CM curricula & training courses for T&CM personnel and
supports and strengthens the Training Sites of TTM Practicum for undergraduate

students and Training Sites for TTM Internship Programme in 12 health

service regions in the country,
- Collaborates with Thai Traditional Medical Council (TTMC) and Consortium
of Network Institutes of TTM and Applied TTM Workforce Production,

- Registers and certifies Thai indigenous medicine practitioners,

- Develops standard specifications of traditional medicine preparations (Thai
Herbal Preparation Pharmacopoeia: THPP),
- Works in collaboration with FDA to review TTM & TCM medicine registration

documents, and

- Provides funding from TTM Knowledge Fund to support the operations
related to the promotion and protection of TTM wisdom and as grant to
support research projects on TTM.

• Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Ministry of Public Health:

- Regulates production, import, sale, and advertisement of TTM & TCM
commercial products,
- Registers TTM, TCM, herbal medicinal products, herbal health supplements,

and natural cosmeceuticals under the Herbal Products Act B.E. 2562, and

- Selects Thai traditional medicines and herbal medicines into the National
List of Essential Herbal Medicines (NLEHM).
• Department of Medical Sciences (DMSc), Ministry of Public Health: Thailand

- Establishes standard specifications of herbal materials (Thai Herbal

Pharmacopoeia),
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