By: ICN Bureau
Last updated : March 06, 2018 8:18 pm
Inspections at two Indian chemical companies based in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra were recently carried out by the Hague-based Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Inspections at two Indian chemical companies
based in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra were recently carried out by the
Hague-based Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
The OPCW carried out inspections of Krishna Antioxidants at Ratnagiri in
Maharashtra and Divi Laboratories Ltd at Nalgonda in Andhra Pradesh, the
Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals (DCPC) said.
While Krishna Antioxidants is an OCPF facility in terms of the Convention on the
Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical
Weapons and on their destruction, Divi Laboratories Ltd is a Schedule 2
facility.
Till April, the OPCW has carried out 100 inspections in India.
To create awareness among the stakeholders on the obligations under CWC, and the
CWC Act and to improve the quality of declarations by the industry, a series of
awareness generation programmes are held at various locations in the country
with a concentration of chemical industry relevant to CWC.
In April, the DCPC organised two programmes on chemical safety at Mumbai and
Vadodara.
The DCPC is responsible for submission of industry declarations, facilitation of
inspections by OPCW teams as also creating awareness in the industry about its
obligations under CWC. Certain toxic chemicals and their precursors are covered
under the ambit of the CWC, of which India is a signatory.