Distribution Notice of
Inventory of the Existing Chemical
Substances in
IECSC 2005 Edition
In order to
strengthen the environmental management on chemicals, improve the measures of chemical
environmental management, establish a system of new chemical substance
notification in accordance with internationally typical operation, and
implement the acceptances of entering WTO, the State Environmental Protection
Administration (SEPA) has promulgated the Provisions on the Environmental
Administration of New Chemical Substances. To cooperate the implementation of
the Provisions, SEPA has completed the compilation of the Inventory of Existing
Chemical Substances Manufactured or Imported in China (IECSC) for the purposes
to identify new chemical substances and to master the status of existing
chemical substances in
IECSC 2005 Edition covers the chemical substances on
the 6th case-by-case supplementation, as well as those of the former edition.
There are 44922 chemical substances totally, where 37346 with CAS Number (in
which CAS numbers of 292 chemical substances have been replaced with serial
numbers due to the confidentiality) , and 7576 without CAS Number (or unknown).
For substances without or unknown CAS number, an unique serial number was given
in IECSC.
IECSC is a dynamic inventory. SEPA will publicize the
substances which have been registered in accordance with the Provisions or
accord with the rules of IECSC.
A PC version of IECSC is also available. Thank you for
using IECSC. Having any comments, please don't hesitate to contact us:
webservice@crc-mep.org.cn.
For the purpose of correction of this edition, CRC-SEPA puts IECSC query software in our web site for relative people to query:(http://www.crc-mep.org.cn/cgi-bin/inven/bin/index.htm) .
The PC version of IECSC 2005 Edition is also available here.
CRC-SEPA also
prepared the print version of "Inventory of the Existing Chemical
Substances in