1. What the official answer establishes—and what it does not
Thailand FDA Food Division’s FAQ dated 29 April 2026 states that fresh-cut fruit such as peeled durian is general food under plants and products and does not fall under a product-permission application. It separately describes fresh-cut fruit supplied with a dipping condiment, helping distinguish the two product forms.
Being outside a product-permission application is not an exemption from every obligation, nor a safety certificate for the food. The actual preparation, packing, storage, transport, sales form and destination market must be assessed together with other applicable requirements.
2. Classification, process control and lot release are different evidence layers
Product Classification answers which category applies to the facts reviewed. Process Control explains how cutting, packing, cleaning and storage are controlled. Lot Release asks whether one defined lot has enough evidence to sell or ship. They must connect, but none can substitute for another.
Ministry of Public Health Notification No. 420 on production methods, equipment and storage, and Notification No. 416 on pathogenic microorganisms are official sources to check against the product facts. A limit or method should not be imported into a file until the applicable food category and scope have been confirmed.
3. Fresh-Cut Lot Release File: six layers
This is an editorial information-control framework, not an official standard, licence or Siam Diamond certification.
- Raw Fruit Identity — supplier, orchard or source, cultivar, receipt date, lot code, incoming condition and relevant evidence
- Preparation & Hygiene — area, personnel, equipment, opening and separation method, cleaning, contamination prevention and deviation record
- Time–Temperature History — cutting start, entry to cold storage, specified and recorded conditions, handover points and deviation action
- Pack & Label Identity — container type and code, label version, net quantity, lot and date marks, and verified storage statement
- Verification Evidence — sampling plan, sample, method, laboratory or verifier, lot-linked result and response to an adverse result
- Release Decision — Hold, Rework, Reject or Release, rationale, authorised person, date and link to the order or destination
4. Shelf life should not start with a convenient number
Once a durian is opened, the exposed flesh and contamination routes differ from an intact fruit. Shelf life should therefore be supported by the actual food, pack, process, hygiene, time–temperature history and verification under intended distribution conditions—not copied from another product or set around a logistics preference.
Codex CXC 53-2003 provides hygiene context for fresh fruits and vegetables, including fresh-cut produce. Citing Codex does not automatically establish compliance with Thai law or an importing market; the current rules for the actual product and destination still need to be mapped.
5. Evidence boundaries and brand claims
This article does not classify a Siam Diamond facility or product, set a temperature, shelf life, sampling plan or microbiological criterion, or claim that the company makes or sells fresh-cut durian.
Before commercial action, operators should confirm their position with the Food Division, public-health or local authorities, food-safety specialists, laboratories and destination-market authorities according to each party’s role.
