In March this year, Thailand’s Department of Industrial Works (DIW) began implementing compulsory GHS for industrial chemicals.(ChemLinked news release 1 Mar 2013). The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Agriculture (DOA) are also moving forward in their GHS development, the director of Hazardous Substances Control Bureau under DIW, told a ChemLinked reporter in an exclusive interview after the REACH24H Chemical Regulatory Annual Conference concluded in Shanghai on the 22nd of Oct.