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DILG Orders Ban of Products Containing DMF

Jul 01, 2009

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) today called on all local chief executives to ban products containing biocide Dimethyl Fumarate (DMF) which are usually found in furniture, shoes and other leather products.

DILG Secretary Ronnie Puno made the move after the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), through its Bureau of Trade Regulation and Consumer Protection, sought the Department's assistance to ensure that products containing DMF are not placed or made available in the market.

Puno said the DTI's request is in support of the decision of the European Union, communicated through the Ambassador and Head of the Delegation to the European Commission to the Philippines , to immediately ban all products containing DMF after a number of cases of health risk relating to...

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• Monitor of compliance to national laws, policies, rules and regulations;

• Provide strategic technical assistance to provinces, cities and municipalities, to help them in strengthening their institutional capacities to plan and manage the local socio-economic development process within the context of autonomy and participatory as well as rights-based governance;

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