DEA grants chemical shippers import/export requirement waiver

DEA grants chemical shippers import/export requirement waiver    The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency said it will give shippers until May 15 to comply with its import/export notification requirements for chemical mixtures that contain any of 27 listed chemicals regulated under the Controlled Substances Act.
   The DEA’s original date for implementation had been set for Jan. 14. However, the agency said “certain segments” of the chemical industry expressed concern that they could not fully comply with the import/export notification requirements by this deadline.
   “While the submission of import, export and transshipment information to DEA is an important provision in countering the potential diversion of these materials, this temporary waiver is being provide to allow industry ample time to ensure their full compliance with CSA (Controlled Substances Act) import/export regulatory requirements,” the agency said.
   The DEA, however, maintained that all other chemical control requirements laid out in the final rule, published on Dec. 15, “remain in full force and effect.”
   For more information about the temporary waiver, contact Christine A. Sannerud, chief of DEA’s Drug & Chemical Evaluation Section, Office of Diversion Control, by telephone (202) 307-7183.