Restaurants with permits and food safety standards can operate online food businesses legally for they are only switching from on-site services to delivering food to customers. Food trucks, street food vendors, and online food businesses from home kitchens must strictly adhere to food safety regulations which emphasise hygiene and sanitation of food, personnel and facilities. Operators who use home kitchens to sell their food must meet food safety standards and provide food labellings on ingredients, allergy cautions, and production facilities for traceability. Secondly, the public health authorities should design a new set of food safety standards for home-based food businesses for better consumer protection. The state authorities should consider working with food delivery platforms to make it mandatory for online retail food businesses to meet food safety standards.

Source: Bangkok Post August 10, 2021 23:26 UTC