For occupational expansion, the entrepreneur needs to be aware of using natural resources such as forests, soils, waters, human resources and capital for a full benefit and not damage the environment and life styles of people in the community, society and 5 continents as shown below:

Illnesses Caused by Bacteria in Preserved Food

Preserved food has been a local wisdom in Thailand for a long time. In the old days, our ancestors tried to find how to preserve food for a long time. It has been said that “Born to be Thai, wherever you live, you won’t starve.”

We can find many living things for food in our daily life. Nowadays, not many Thai people find enough time to preserve their own food. Mostly it has to be bought from markets. Today, we should be careful when buying preserved food from open markets. In studies, it was found that some preserved food from local producers are substandard, especially cleanliness of raw materials, processes of production and prevention of contamination of bacteria. Therefore, we should select preserved food in which cleanliness has been well controlled.

Food institute researchers had conducted their studies by random sampling some preserved food such as preserved cabbage and preserved bamboo shoots for analyzing clostridium perfringens contamination. These bacteria are found in soil, water and air and cause food poisoning. If the raw materials such as plants or vegetables are not clean enough, the bacteria may become harmful to us.

For those who enjoy having preserved food may study the result of the research by the Food Institute from the above table before deciding to eat those kinds of food.

Food and Medicine Organization (FMO) indicated that all odorless insecticides are still dangerous for humans if inhaled; they may cause nausea, dizziness and harm health.

On February 9th, Pharmacist Sri Nual Korakochakorn, Deputy of Food and Medicine Commission (FMO) revealed that at present, there were still a lot of household consumers using dangerous materials for controlling and killing insects and other animals including sterilizing and cleaning products. Most of them misunderstood that odorless or less odorant products were not or less harmful to human’s health. Some product presenters also showed how to smell the sweet- smelling products.

In fact, the scent may be from artificial flower scent. If the consumer inhales those dangerous products, they may get a headache, dizziness, nausea and harm their health.

The real purpose of using the scents for the harmful products is just to cover any unpleasant smell and to motivate consumers to select the products.

While the Department of Meteorology reminded that a new storm would come to the east of the southern provinces this midnight. All people should prepare to handle the heavy rain. Flash floods will hit the cities once again. The announcement of the disaster ‚ “The depression in the Gulf of Thailand and the cold weather in Northern Thailand” Copy No.3, 01 November 2010.

On November 1st at 04.00 am, the depression was at the lower part of the Gulf of Thailand with the storm center about 350 km east of Songkhla or at Latitude 6.5 degree north, Longitude 104.0 degree east with the maximum velocity of 15 km/hr. It was expected that the depression would move through the lower parts of South Thailand during November 1st- 2nd. This type of weather would cause very heavy rain in the southern part of Surat Thani and other provinces. There will be heavy to very heavy rain in many areas and waves in the Thai gulf could 2-4 m in height. People who live in the risk areas especially those living on slopping hills, plains, banks of the rivers in Surat Thani, Nakorn Si Thamrat, Pathalung, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Krabi, Trang, and Satun should be aware of the dangers from this heavy rain. It may cause flash floods and overflowing condition.  The people who live on the south-eastern sea shore should beware of high waves on the shore. The fishermen in the central area and in the lower part of the Thai Gulf should not leave shore during this period.

Further information for the coming 1-2 days, high pressure and cold air masses from China still spread out to Thailand. It may cause cold weather on the upper parts of Thailand and strong winds on the upper parts of the northern and north-eastern regions. The temperature lows will be at 12-16° C and on the hill tops and the mountains it will be 6-12° C

       During this period everyone should closely follow the weather forecast and danger warnings from the Department of Meteorology.