UNEP/UNITAR : Chemicals Management Instruments: A Series of Resource Documents for Countries Making Choices, Module 1 on Chemical Inventories (1999).
Description:
A chemical inventory is a listing of (industrial) chemicals manufactured in, or imported by, a country and is used primarily to distinguish between new and existing chemicals. It is normally a database created from information submitted to government authorities by manufacturers, processors, users, and/or importers. Its content can range from just the CAS numbers and/or names of chemicals in commerce, to the amount produced and imported by specific location, to the amounts being used for different purposes.
Why this Tool/Guidance?
Although the guidance relates to inventories of industrial substances it contains much useful information in preparing inventories for pesticides.