---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 890"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "890"
heading: "Review of Federal sales of chemicals usable to manufacture controlled substances"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/890"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Control and Enforcement"
  - "Part E — Administrative and Enforcement Provisions"
---

# §890. Review of Federal sales of chemicals usable to manufacture controlled substances


A Federal department or agency may not sell from the stocks of the department or agency any chemical which, as determined by the [Administrator](/usc/21/1523.md?p=1) of the [Drug Enforcement Administration](/usc/21/802.md?p=4), could be used in the [manufacture](/usc/21/802.md?p=15) of a [controlled substance](/usc/21/802.md?p=6) unless the [Administrator](/usc/21/1523.md?p=1) certifies in writing to the head of the department or agency that there is no reasonable cause to believe that the sale of the chemical would result in the illegal [manufacture](/usc/21/802.md?p=15) of a [controlled substance](/usc/21/802.md?p=6).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 520, as added Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title X, § 1034(a), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2640.)