Mrs. Umaporn Sukmoung, Deputy Director General of Department of Science Service (DSS) along with team of scientists and Dr. Manop Sittidech, Minister Counsellor, Office of Science and Technology, Royal Thai Embassy, participated in the cooperative meetings on Food Contact Materials (FCM) during 20 – 22 September 2017 with five Belgian scientific organizations, as follows;

1. Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Ghent
2. Primoris cvba, Ghent
3. SENSTECH, Ghent
4. Belgian Packaging Institute (BPI), Zellik
5. Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), Geel

       According to the meetings, DSS proposed the cooperative topics with Belgian organizations such as inviting Belgian experts to be guest speakers or lecturers, training programs for DSS staffs at the Belgian laboratories, developing the capacity building of DSS’ laboratory for sensory test of FCM, developing of reference materials for FCM, etc. The details of cooperation will be discussed further.