Friday, November 18, 2011

Philippines Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances (PICCS) and PMPIN

Philippine Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances(PICCS) is an inventory of all chemicals and chemical substances in use throughout the country. Chemicals and chemical substances not included in the PICCS cannot be manufactured, imported, distributed, or used unless they have undergone the Pre-Manufacture and Pre-Importation Notification (PMPIN) process.

The first PICCS developed by the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) was released in 2000. It contains approximately 24,000 chemicals and chemical substances nominated in 1993 by chemical manufacturers, importers, distributors and users.

PICCS is updated every 5 years. The latest edition of PICCS(2011) includes mroe than 44,000 chemical substances.

To access PICCS and learn more info about PMPIN, please click the link below.
Philippines Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances (PICCS) 

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